top student at medical school

Chapter 811 The Boss Arrives!

"Teacher Fang, could you give me a chance? I will study diligently under your guidance!"

At 7:40 a.m., outside the orthopedic ward doctor's office in the new campus of Zhongnan Hospital, a young man wearing a white coat and a Zhongnan Hospital intern badge spoke with sincerity and pure eyes.

Fang Ziye nodded slightly, his voice calm: "I don't doubt the truth that you will work hard, but you are the fifth person in your eight-year program to come to me."

"In your year, four of your classmates who preceded you said the same thing."

“Even if your eight-year program doesn’t use up a fixed number of doctoral supervisors when choosing a supervisor, I can only choose one out of five.”

"I don't know any of you well, so how do you think I should choose? Should I choose you, Liu Yangping, and not your classmate, Yang Zhao?"

You need to give me a more convincing reason!

The young man's name is Liu Yangping. He is currently an intern, but he is an eight-year student at the Medical School of Han City University and can directly choose a doctoral supervisor.

Just like when Liu Yangping came to the Department of Trauma Surgery to see Professor Deng Yong years ago, he also came to see Fang Ziye.

When Liu Yangping heard Fang Ziye mention Yang Zhao, his expression changed slightly. He took a deep breath and replied, "Teacher Fang, my current GPA and professional skills are indeed not as good as Yang Zhao's, but he has attended training courses."

“Someone has mentored him, so his professional skills are definitely better than those of us from less well-off families.”

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye's eyes flashed with displeasure: "What about Tan Song?"

"Where is Luo Pianxian?"

After Fang Ziye finished speaking, he gently patted Liu Yangping on the shoulder: "If I were you, I wouldn't waste more time on this kind of verbal sparring, but would instead try to find a way to honestly improve myself."

Unlike five-year clinical medical students, eight-year students graduate with a doctoral degree and postgraduate diploma. Therefore, in the early stages, they need to improve their theoretical knowledge and practical skills.

Research experience can be accumulated after a doctoral supervisor is selected.

Fang Ziye, the "rising star doctoral supervisor" in surgery, was naturally the object of everyone's pursuit, and Liu Yangping was not the first person to approach Fang Ziye.

“Teacher Fang, I study hard every day, read books, learn, and practice procedures. I love surgery very much, and I worked very hard during my internship.”

"I'm sure Senior Brother Hu Qingyuan has mentioned me to you before."

“But as you know, the content taught in private tutoring classes is always better than the courses that the average person is exposed to,” Liu Yangping replied.

"So what? You think it's unfair?"

"If I don't send you a dissertation during your doctoral studies, but other professors send dissertations to other students, do you also feel that I am being unfair to you?"

"When you were looking for a job, other professors gave their students recommendation letters, but I didn't give mine. Would you feel that was unfair?"

"Liu Yangping, you'd better not come looking for me again," Fang Ziye replied firmly.

Liu Yangping can be very proactive in finding solutions, but he can't think of solutions this way.

While a person's family background, connections, and other social accumulations may create relative unfairness, they also reflect the resource accumulation of others.

This accumulation of resources won't be limited to this one time; in the future, they will also be able to receive resource "adjustments" on their own, which will save teachers a lot of "teaching time"!
Why do teachers prefer those with talent? Isn't it because they are less troublesome and more outstanding?
"Teacher Fang, please give me a chance?" Liu Yangping was still unwilling to give up.

"You're on an eight-year program. If you don't want to pursue a PhD with me, you have plenty of other PhD supervisors to choose from. Don't waste your time here."

"Either you compete fairly, I've set a timeline for you, which is mid-September this year, or you can ask other doctoral supervisors."

"Don't think you can get pity by playing the victim."

"You'll be a clinician in the future, and it won't help you kowtow to patients about their illnesses. Playing the victim will be even less effective."

"I told you, if I were you, I would find ways to improve myself, but how to find those ways is not something I am obligated to guide you on right now."

“You have many options!” Fang Ziye said.

With access to a prestigious 985 university like Wuhan University, there are countless ways to improve oneself.

There are many teachers and senior students to learn from, and there are practice rooms and other places to practice basic skills.

Fang Ziye didn't beg anyone for a doctoral position back then, because he knew he wouldn't get one!
Fang Ziye flipped open his wristwatch: "Alright, I need to go hand over my shift."

"Teacher Fang, is it because I didn't give you a gift that you're still not agreeing?" Liu Yangping said through gritted teeth.

"Get out! Don't make things too ugly." Fang Ziye pointed towards the door of the department, his expression turning stern.

The eight-year program is excellent, as it comes with a doctoral degree, and many professors prefer to recruit an additional eight-year student.

However, when choosing a doctoral supervisor for the eight-year program, it is a two-way selection process. You can choose one doctoral supervisor, but only if the supervisor wants you.

Each tutor can only supervise a maximum of one eight-year program student per year.

After Liu Yangping turned and left, Fang Ziye went into the office.

Today is May 25th, Monday. Everyone in the office except Professor Zeng Duoqin has a perfect attendance record.

As soon as Fang Ziye entered, Hu Qingyuan came over immediately: "Master, did Liu Yangping make you angry?"

Fang Ziye shook his head: "He didn't do anything to make me angry, he's just been thinking things through a lot..."

"Professor Fang, I've come to present you with another banner."

As Fang Ziye was speaking, another voice came from the office doorway. A man holding a banner stood there, a smile on his face.

It's just that it's hard to tell whether the smile is genuine or a bitter one.

Upon seeing Wu Yilin from the medical affairs department, Fang Ziye quickly went up to him: "Teacher Wu, another patient has brought you a banner of appreciation?"

"I've told you this many times!"

"How about this, if this happens again next time, you can put the banner in your medical department."

Sending a banner to the medical affairs department once or twice is certainly nice, and it will make the colleagues there feel novel.

If the recipient of the banner is never Fang Ziye, Wu Yilin from the Medical Affairs Department will also feel very happy, as our hospital's clinical work is currently progressing very well.

But eight out of ten times it's Fang Ziye, and it all happens in the last six months. This kind of thing makes people feel "annoyed" and even suspect that Fang Ziye is deliberately "attracting attention"!
Wu Yilin sighed softly: "The patient's family made the banner with good intentions. Since they wanted to give it to you clinicians, they must have wanted to express their gratitude."

"They've all been sent to our medical department, so we can't just leave the banner behind!"

"Director Fang, I'll just return the banner to its rightful owner this time and not waste any more time, okay? I still have some things to take care of; there was a complaint from the emergency department this morning that I haven't fully resolved yet."

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye quickly replied, "Thank you for your hard work, Director Wu."

Wu Yilin is the deputy director of the medical affairs department in the new hospital area. He manages complaints and related matters for all specialties in the hospital, which is quite a workload.

After receiving the banner, Fang Ziye opened it, read the family member's name, and handed it to Hu Qingyuan: "Qingyuan, take the banner with you when you make your rounds later and return it to the patient directly."

"Originally, patients send banners to express their gratitude, but doing this all the time will definitely annoy the medical affairs department. Once or twice is fine."

"From now on, we're simply not accepting any more banners!"

Because of short videos popularizing science, there are too many smart people.

However, Fang Ziye did not want to add too much burden to his colleagues because of his own affairs.

"Master, isn't this a bit inappropriate?" Hu Qingyuan asked, somewhat conflicted.

“It’s definitely not good, but I couldn’t think of a better way, so I could only deal with it relatively violently to reduce unnecessary trouble,” Fang Ziye said.

When Fang Ziye walked into the office again, Wang Zongkai said helplessly, "Ziye, someone is still sending a banner to the medical department? Isn't this just making things worse for you?"

"Yes! So I'll just return it this time." Fang Ziye sighed softly.

"Oh, right, Teacher Wang, let's talk about something after we finish rounds," Fang Ziye said.

“Okay!” Wang Zongkai nodded from his seat.

……

After the on-duty nurses and doctors finished their brief handover, the head nurse was about to relay the contents of last week's weekly meeting when Fang Ziye raised his hand to interrupt: "Head nurse, is the content of last week's meeting relevant to our department?"

"If it's not particularly relevant, then we won't convey it yet."

I have a few things to say.

Huang Xiaowei silently put away the notebook and said with a smile, "Director Fang, you're still using the usual platitudes to affirm our orthopedic work, but this time you have some detailed data."

“Then I won’t say it out loud!” Fang Ziye said, then gestured with his hand: “After nearly half a year of development in the new hospital area, the types of diseases treated by our three groups have become relatively stable.”

"Our group currently focuses on diabetic foot and spinal cord injury, while Director Wang's group is gradually shifting from flap transplantation to more specialized procedures such as functional reconstruction and tendon transfer."

"Professor Zeng's team is carrying out routine diagnosis and treatment of bone tumors more and more smoothly. Last week, colleagues from the Cancer Center of Peking Union Medical College Hospital came to our department for a visit and exchange."

"This means that our department is developing very well."

"However, there are still many problems, which I would like to emphasize here."

"First, our department is currently developing well in terms of specialties, but it lacks follow-up strength and has not formed a clear hierarchical structure. In most cases, we rely on senior physicians to support us."

"The master's and doctoral students in our department still need to accumulate basic skills."

"Of course, the main reason is that there are too few people and that they have not formed a sequential connection."

"For a department to achieve healthy development, it must form a virtuous cycle from the group leader, associate chief physician, attending physician, doctor, master, and intern."

"Our department's development plan for the second half of the year, in addition to continuing to conduct more in-depth clinical disease treatment, will also focus on teaching at a higher level."

"We strive to establish this cycle first."

"Professor Zeng, Professor Tang, what do you think?" Fang Ziye consulted Zeng Duoqin and Tang Yi for their opinions.

Tang Yi didn't dare to express his opinion, as he was currently just following along. Zeng Duoqin, however, felt the same way: "Director Fang, I also think we need to strengthen our teaching!"

"This can create a more positive learning ecosystem."

Associate Chief Physician Wang Zongkai is not yet a doctoral supervisor, so he dared not speak at this moment.

Fang Ziye continued, "The second thing is that, in addition to teaching our hospital students, we should also attach importance to teaching visiting doctors."

"It's best to understand the main purpose of the visiting doctors' training in advance. If they are a good fit for our department, then we can agree to let them come."

"If we find out in advance that the other party's learning objectives are not a good fit for our department, it is best to explain this beforehand to avoid delaying their learning opportunities."

"After all, the surgical procedures that our department is currently performing are unlikely to be routinely performed in most prefecture-level city hospitals in the next ten years."

“Brother who came to our department for further training, if you want to leave, I have no objection.” Fang Ziye looked at the two visiting doctors in the ward.

Upon hearing this, one of them quickly replied with a smile, "Director Fang, I'm sorry, it's not that your teaching is not good enough, it's just that our level is too low, and we can't understand it..."

What do visiting doctors learn?
Learning conventional treatments for spinal cord injuries? Are you crazy?

Even tendon transfer surgery is not something that can be easily performed in a prefecture-level city hospital.

"No, no, we agreed to your request to come to our department for further training without doing our research beforehand."

"We still haven't done our job properly!" Fang Ziye explained, then added.

"After six months of maintaining stability and development, I think the resident physicians and attending physicians in our department are quite good."

"So I agreed to the suggestion of Chief Resident Dr. Lan Tianluo. From now on, any doctor in our department can go out for consultations on their own, as long as they are approved and authorized by their superiors. The superiors who are authorized and approved will be responsible for them on a single line."

“All resident physicians in our department, whether they are professional master’s students or ordinary resident trainees, can perform level 2 surgeries as long as they have been authorized by the chief resident.”

"But there is one rule: without a senior physician present, anyone who dares to perform surgery beyond their level, even my students, will be sent straight out this door."

"To perform Level 2 surgery, you must have this ability. I've set up a training room for you. If you want to learn and get your first experience, I've also found an animal testing laboratory for you. You can start by getting through that, okay?"

"I will also conduct teaching sessions for you from time to time."

"As I said before, whether we are teachers or students, we need to be bold, but we also need to be meticulous."

"We must never be careless and make silly mistakes that we should never make."

"That's about all I have to say for today. There's nothing else special. After you've finished your rounds, go and do your own work."

……

Fang Ziye led the team to complete the ward rounds immediately. However, after the rounds, Fang Ziye did not leave the operating room immediately. Instead, he waited for Wang Zongkai in his office for a while.

8:55.

Wang Zongkai pushed open the door and entered: "Sorry, Ziye, I was delayed for a while during the ward rounds."

"You've called me because you have good news, haven't you?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye smiled and nodded: "Teacher Wang, of course it's good news. Would I have come to see you separately if it weren't good news?"

"That's right. We need two assistants in our animal laboratory. They need to have some basic skills in hand surgery, and they can't be too inexperienced."

"They don't need to be too outstanding. Do you have anyone you can recommend?"

There's so much work to do in the animal testing lab.

Although Fang Ziye was leading the team alone, there were still some remaining detailed tasks that needed to be completed by someone.

Originally, the task was handled by staff from the laboratory, but they were all unreliable, so Fang Ziye simply arranged for someone else to take the job himself.

In this way, it is also a form of training for the master's students of this college.

"That's great news, but I don't know if my students will meet your standards, Director Fang," Wang Zongkai said bluntly.

Wang Zongkai is not a doctoral supervisor, but he is a master's supervisor and has his own students.

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye blinked and said, "Teacher Wang, your student might not be able to do it. I need someone who can perform tendon suturing independently."

“Generally speaking, only some PhDs in hand surgery have this skill, so please recommend a few people to me and I will contact them myself.”

“Of course, I’ve already taken a liking to your student, Tao Hebin,” Fang Ziye said, naming him.

Upon hearing this, Wang Zongkai's expression changed slightly: "Ziye, why don't you not choose my student, and instead choose me? I'm quite good at clamping too."

Wang Zongkai has a strong desire to manage upwards and he also wants to improve.

“Brother Wang, you can’t digest something by being distracted. Actually, if you weren’t currently studying two clinical procedures, functional reconstruction and functional rehabilitation, I would definitely have handed over some of the research topics to you.”

"But?" Fang Ziye asked cryptically.

If Wang Zongkai had the ability to handle both clinical work and scientific research, he would have been a professor and doctoral supervisor long ago!
I can't improve your aptitude, so giving you more tasks would only harm you.

Wang Zongkai could only take care of one thing at a time.

“Alright, Ziye, then leave this matter to me. I’ll definitely pick out two satisfactory and sensible ones for you.” Wang Zongkai took it upon himself to handle it.

"Okay, thank you, Teacher Wang!" Fang Ziye said with a smile.

A single tree cannot make a forest, and a single thread cannot make a line.

Even though Fang Ziye's research group is now full of talented people, with a considerable number capable of performing tendon suturing, they still need to seek help from outsiders.

It's to distribute the workload.

After Fang Ziye and Wang Zongkai pushed open the door to the director's office and made their agreement, Wang Zongkai was first taken aback, and then taken aback again.

After confirming the visitor's identity, his voice trembled slightly: "Good morning, Principal Zhang!"

Zhang Pingwen, the president of Han City University, is a highly respected academician.

Fang Ziye was taken aback when he saw who the visitors were, and then quickly said, "Principal Zhang, Principal Xu, what brings you two here?"

Zhang Pingwen, with his crew cut and kind appearance, nodded slightly upon hearing this: "I was brought here by Principal Yuan to take a look."

Zhang Pingwen then saw Fang Ziye turning his head left and right and said, "I didn't send a message to the president of your Zhongnan Hospital, and I also told Principal Yuan not to send messages to people in the medical school."

"I just came to see you."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zongkai immediately pretended to be very sensible and said, "Principal Zhang, Principal Yuan, I have surgery to perform, so I'll go down from the operating room first."

Zhang Pingwen and Yuan Yufeng nodded, not paying attention to what Wang Zongkai was going to do.

Fang Ziye quickly led the two back into the director's office, seated Zhang Pingwen and Yuan Yufeng in the main seats, and personally served them tea.

(End of this chapter)