Dr. Shaun Murphy is going to have his hands full this season. On top of being a new dad, he also has two new med students he will need to teach and welcome into St. Bonaventure, and one of them isn’t too happy to be there. Who is Dom Hubank on The Good Doctor? We have all the details on the new med student below, including who plays him.
The Good Doctor is ABC’s medical drama following Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore), a young, autistic surgical resident at the fictional San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. Despite skepticism from his colleagues, Shaun use his extraordinary gifts and unique talents to save lives, later rising to the attending level. The series first premiered in 2017 and began its seventh and final season on Feb. 20, 2024. Rounding out the cast is Richard Schiff as Aaron Glassman; Christina Chang as Audrey Lim; Chuku Modu as Jared Kalu; Fiona Gubelmann as Morgan Reznick; Will Yun Lee as Alex Park; Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo; Noah Galvin as Asher Wolke; Giacomo Baessato as Jerome Martel and Bria Samoné Henderson as Jordan Allen.
The upcoming Season 7 episode “Skin in the Game” will be introducing two new cast members: St. Bonaventure’s first-ever medical students. One of the students, Dom Hubank, has a unique story and fans are excited to see what Shaun will teach him. Keep reading for everything there is to know about Dom Hubank.
Who is Dom Hubank on The Good Doctor?
Who is Dom Hubank on The Good Doctor? Dominck “Dom” Hubank is a third-year medical student who will be doing his surgical rotation at St. Bonaventure, along with Charlie Lukaitis (Kayla Cromer). Unlike Charlie, who idolizes Shaun and is very eager to start her rotation, Dom is a bit more indifferent. In an exclusive preview of Episode 2 obtained by TVLine, Dom meets Shaun and Dr. Park for the first time and tells them: “I don’t want to be a surgeon, but I’m excited for the rotation.”
Excited is a bit of a stretch, as Dom has no interest in surgery and wants to be a family doctor is his underserved community. A former football player, Dom is described in a press statement as a “gentle giant” who learns that he “isn’t as tough as he appears when he faints at the sight of blood.” The statement continues: “Too big to fail, Dom must overcome his newly discovered hemophobia, and will need his peer and friend Charlie to do so.”
“For [Dom], the surgery rotation is just something he’s got to get through,” executive producer Liz Friedman told TV Insider ahead of the episode. “And then he will discover that he’s going to have a challenge with surgery that he didn’t see coming in a million years and is going to make it very questionable whether he can actually pass the rotation.” She added of Dom and Charlie’s relationship: “I think they have a really fun friendship together as people who’ve been helping each other make it through med school.”
In the episode preview, Charlie, who also has Autism Spectrum Disorder, fan girled over Shaun and rambled for several minutes before Dom subtly reined her in. Charlie then tells Shaun and Dr. Park that Dom “helps” her when she “talks too much.”
The two med students will lean on each other as they embark on their rotation, and if Chloe is anything like Shaun, Dom could definitely use her help. It will also be interesting to see how Shaun and the rest of the doctors handle the addition of the med students. The show has introduced several young residents, but residents have completed med school and have a bit more experience in the medical field. This was exactly why the showrunners wanted to bring Dom and Charlie on. “[Med students] don’t know how to bandage a wound. They don’t know how to draw blood; they’ve never done it before,” Friedman told TV Insider. “That’s when we have David Renaud, who’s one of our writers on staff and also a doctor, telling us stories of things that he was baffled by when he was a med student first put on the floor. We thought, well, these are great stories.”
Referencing Dom’s situation in particular, she added: “The other thing that’s fun about medical students and how the education works is, you do rotations in all different areas of medicine. It’s not a matter of you deciding what you want to do, and then you only train in that. You get a sampling of everything.”
Dom will be played by actor Wavyy Jonez, who is best known for starring as Biggie Smalls in USA‘s limited series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. He’s also appeared on Apple TV’s Dickinson, CBS’ Magnum P.I., and NBC’s Young Rock.
