Chapter 14

Yuan Weihong didn't marry late; he married right after graduating with his doctorate, and his daughter is now four years old, attending kindergarten's junior class. His wife is not in the medical industry; she is a teacher at Shuiguohu Middle School with a formal position.

His wife wore glasses, exuding a scholarly air, and asked while eating, "Ziye, you're graduating soon, right? Have you considered pursuing a PhD?"

"What does pursuing a PhD mean, Mommy?" The little one called Xiao Qi, hair in braids, holding a spoon and eating dry rice with three grains of rice and a clump of pumpkin shreds stuck at the corner of her mouth, asked this.

"The kindergarten you attend is the very beginning of studying; a PhD is the end of studying. Reaching the highest level means becoming a doctoral student."

"Xiao Qi, do you want to pursue a PhD in the future?"

Xiao Qi shook her head, set down her spoon, and said, "Mommy, studying isn't fun at all..."

Fang Ziye took over the conversation at this point: "Teacher's Wife, I do plan to pursue a PhD, but whether I can depends on opportunity."

"Our Trauma Surgery department only has two PhD quotas each year."

Yuan Weihong also said, "Having two PhD quotas in one department is already considered a lot; the entire Orthopedics Department only has six PhD admission quotas this year. Our Trauma Surgery takes up one-third."

"But for this cohort, just the Master's students from our own hospital number fifteen."

"The Provincial People's Hospital's Orthopedics is about the same; some Master's students from Huazhong University of Science and Technology's affiliated Tongji and Peking Union Medical College Hospital have also come early to test the waters."

"The current era is no longer like when I studied; back then, few people actively pursued a PhD, but now, few people actively don't want to pursue a PhD."

PhD quotas in all teaching hospitals are a case of too many monks and too little porridge, with enormous competition. Saying thousands of soldiers and horses cross a single-plank bridge might be an exaggeration, but considering everyone fighting tooth and nail are Master's students from prestigious schools, the difficulty goes without saying.

In this kind of assessment competition, whether it's an old-brand 985 or a 211, neither absolutely holds an academic advantage; it only comes down to personal ability and fortune, plus the doctoral supervisor's choice.

"You medical folks are truly cutthroat." Teacher's Wife cast a sympathetic look at Fang Ziye, yet could do nothing about it.

However at this moment, Yuan Weihong slowly wiped the corner of his mouth with a tissue, turned his head, and said, "But Ziye has a certain chance to take a more thorny shortcut; his professional growth speed, now that he's shed the graduation thesis pressure, is progressing very fast."

"Ziye, I remember you only took about one month for your suturing technique to reach the First Training Room clearance requirement, right?"

Jie Han is Fang Ziye's junior fellow disciple, and remembered the timing even more precisely: "Master, to count accurately, it should be thirteen days."

"Senior Brother Fang completed the orange peel half-layer and full-layer suturing on August 10th, and on August 22nd, counting both August 10th and August 22nd, it was only thirteen days."

As Jie Han spoke, even Teacher's Wife, who knew the Training Room's high difficulty, looked over sideways, adjusted her glasses, and carefully examined Fang Ziye.

Objective data made Fang Ziye's clinical talent more convincing.

Yuan Weihong also pursed his lips slightly and said, "Actually, Sun Shaoqing has been reporting to me that your suturing improvement progress is quite fast; I thought you had pleased him through some means, getting him to come speak well of you to me."

"Unexpected? Or is it real?"

"Twenty-odd days to grow from suturing orange peel to suturing tofu?" Teacher's Wife clicked her tongue in wonder for a while, then said, "Then Ziye should be the type who isn't too good at writing papers but has pretty good clinical talent."

Yuan Weihong shook his head: "Actually Ziye is also okay at writing papers; it's just that he previously always wanted to submit to a relatively better journal, which caused the delay."

"Ziye, why don't you give your few papers to your junior fellow disciple, let him help you revise them properly; don't underestimate him, behind my back he published an SCI paper, which happens to be in print this month. Since the data all came from the laboratory of his undergraduate school, he didn't tell me in advance..."

Fang Ziye looked at Jie Han with great shock.

According to his own teacher's words, Jie Han wrote an SCI during his undergraduate period and has already published it. And it's an original article at that; this is too...?

Hearing this, Jie Han hurriedly said, "Master, these data indeed were previously..."

"You don't need to explain; you being able to publish papers is a good thing. I just feel you two can exchange advantages."

After the meal.

After seeing Yuan Weihong and Teacher's Wife off in the car, Jie Han pursed his lips, looked at Fang Ziye, tone shocked: "Senior Brother, are you really willing to let me revise your papers and add my name?"

Fang Ziye heard this and said, "What's there to be unwilling about? Our team is originally small right now, just you, me, and Master, the three of us."

"A small team's disadvantage is relatively insufficient human resources; the advantage is not needing too much human relations and social maneuvering."

"If you can really get these two papers of mine published, we can be co-first authors. I can also cover clinical bed management for you."

Currently Yuan Weihong's team, counting teacher and disciples, only has three people.

Yuan Weihong is also not a doctoral supervisor, so to increase his own value, resource exchange to a certain extent is very necessary.

Li Yuanpei has not completely given up the chance to study for a PhD under Teacher Deng Yong; he is currently out attending a small training class to improve his professional skills.

Assuming Li Yuanpei can also pass the Training Room clearance, Teacher Deng would definitely prioritize admitting Li Yuanpei; this is a proximity advantage!

Therefore, I must make preparations in advance.

"Then Senior Brother, aren't you losing out a lot?" Jie Han was truly embarrassed.

Senior Brother gives me papers, and also covers bed management for me.

"We fellow disciples help each other out, right? Master means the same; if you agree, then starting next month you'll go half-detached." Fang Ziye replied with such certainty.

"Thank you, Senior Brother." Jie Han then refused no longer.

With such a big sweet date right in front, who could resist not eating it?

Fang Ziye, back in his rental house, seriously reconsidered the matter his teacher suggested, and felt it was still feasible.

An SCI not published is just an English paper; only when published does it become an article, a resource that can add value to oneself.

Two more papers, even as co-first authors, the paper count can be improved.

Second, letting the junior fellow disciple go half-detached to do research for one or two months, I can share the beds he manages; after all, I'll have to do more work.

It looks like I'm losing out more, but the more patients, the greater the knowledge point gain rate, and the faster the skill improvement.

At the same time, Jie Han doesn't lose out either; just one or two months without managing beds, he can get co-first authorship on two papers; Jie Han, who doesn't need to worry about graduation, will definitely gain his superior's appreciation.

Publishing three papers as a first-year graduate student, such high productivity speed is absolutely a research big shot!

And I, too, am constantly adding value to myself in layers in both research ability and professional ability, without substantially losing anything, instead gaining many benefits.

【Current Knowledge Points Balance: 14.1.】

After returning from dinner, the knowledge points gained from reading books for two hours were only 0.1, really too few.

It's still earning knowledge points in clinical practice that is the proper path.

(Chapter End)