Chapter 31

Fang Ziye was not the most outstanding among the orthopedics students at Zhongnan Hospital, after all there were still a handful of doctoral senior brothers older than Fang Ziye.

But Fang Ziye did not need to be the most outstanding; he only needed to be ahead of his classmates in the same cohort, which was already enough to stand out.

Whether one admits it or not, the college entrance examination and the national unified master's examination were originally a process of standing out.

Unless they were oddballs, 985/211 undergraduates and master's students, no matter how poor, generally had a relatively decent future and qualifications.

Under such circumstances, Fang Ziye still standing out was actually not easy.

Although there was no enrollment expansion for Fang Ziye's cohort of master's students, was Li Yuanpei not outstanding? Although Li Yuanpei's professional operations were not that good, merely not good enough, compared to general standardized residency trainees or even general graduate students, they were still commendable, placing him in the upper tier.

And as for Li Yuanpei's quantity of research output, could one dare say he was not outstanding?

Four SCIs, even if they were watered down, showed that Li Yuanpei had mastered relatively good research thinking and research methods; since he could accomplish such things, if you could not water them out, your capability was inferior to his.

What about Xiong Jinhuan? Was he not outstanding?

His current professional operations and quantity of articles—even if applying for the application assessment system at Peking Union Medical College—could not be said to have no chance, and in fact the chance was quite great; it was just that Xiong Jinhuan had obtained his teacher's consent, so he wanted to take the more stable path of pursuing a doctorate within this hospital.

And Fang Ziye could still surpass them in professional operations; this was a kind of excellence.

For so many years, the Training Room had always been set here, benchmarking the "Pass the Test" requirement of the master's stage: one orthopedics department, five wards, one or two years before a student passed the test, occasionally none at all, yet still the doctoral 'Pass the Test' met the doctoral corresponding Training Room requirements.

Longitudinally compared, this was also a kind of excellence; such talent needed to be given a certain degree of importance, giving him an opportunity to continue advanced studies and pursue a doctoral degree was harmless and would not be subject to idle gossip.

After all, whoever could do it, anyone could have it.

"Congratulations, Senior Brother Fang." Luo Tingzhu also, before leaving, smiled at Fang Ziye with pursed lips.

"Thank you, Junior Sister Luo, please guide me more in the future." Fang Ziye slightly cupped his hands, his attitude humble.

After all, his meager cultivation, before an absolute genius like Luo Tingzhu, was still somewhat inadequate; Luo Tingzhu had long ago been able to meet his current operational standard.

In the future, he might truly need her guidance.

"Senior Brother Fang's speed of progress is much faster than mine. The difficulty of research is not in the slightest inferior to clinical work; Senior Brother Fang has been writing articles all along, actually you are the one hiding your talents."

"In the future we will learn from each other." Luo Tingzhu was not being humble, only facing it squarely.

"This isn't hiding anymore; if I didn't show it, I wouldn't have books to read." Fang Ziye made a joke.

Seeing Jie Han and Yuan Weihong still guarding by the operating table, Luo Tingzhu knew she should leave, and should return the remaining joy to this small sect.

"Teacher Yuan, goodbye." Luo Tingzhu waved at Yuan Weihong, then left.

Yuan Weihong said: "The wb operation still needs to be practiced well; wb is an experimental learning method that must be firmly mastered in the laboratory; articles with wb done and articles without wb done are completely different in caliber."

"Teacher Yuan, I have already been consulting other senior brothers and watching videos." Luo Tingzhu listened attentively, ears perked up, and only truly left after finishing speaking.

"Congratulations, Senior Brother." Jie Han then came up and bumped Fang Ziye's shoulder with his fist.

"What are you congratulating me for? You don't need to take this path at all. Publish a few more articles; in your cohort, who can withstand it?" Fang Ziye felt a genuine envy for Jie Han's talent in writing articles.

Even if the articles Jie Han currently wrote had low gold content, he had only just started; at the initial stage, being able to use scientific methods to write a paper and push academia forward to a certain extent was a kind of capability.

Those who publish Nature right away and have the director hanging by their side during the internship stage are ultimately just dreamy bubbles.

Yuan Weihong put his arms around both students' shoulders: "Go, go, go, let's eat."

"What you two are doing now, you will both have to do in the future; there is no need to speak of necessary or unnecessary."

"Your mistress and Xiao Qi have probably been waiting for a long time."

Hearing Yuan Weihong's words, Fang Ziye hurriedly began to remove the equipment on his body: "Master, I will come back later to take the white coat; I'm leaving now."

"You might not come back later; today is happy, after your mistress and Xiao Qi leave, us three will drink a little." Yuan Weihong bared his teeth.

"The reason for choosing noon to drink is to have more time to sober up; tomorrow is a workday, and normal work cannot be delayed."

"Alright! ~" Fang Ziye smiled; no matter what, he had to let Yuan Weihong enjoy himself fully.

It was another small private room, with not many people, considered a small gathering within the sect; Yuan Weihong brought his wife and children.

In the first half, naturally there was eating, chatting, and congratulating Fang Ziye on obtaining the qualification to study for a doctorate; then the mistress and teacher each offered a few words of encouragement, and they drank a little.

After the mistress took Xiao Qi and left, Fang Ziye then actively changed to a larger wine glass.

"Master, I toast you a big mouthful; you drink as you please, we do not urge drinking, but I sincerely thank you for your cultivation and guidance. I only feel ashamed to have nothing to repay!" Fang Ziye spoke with a slightly choked voice, then drank it all in one gulp.

Besides having nothing to repay, there was another kind of guilt called having nothing to repay.

Yuan Weihong accompanied him with half a small cup and did not drink heavily with Fang Ziye.

He pressed his hand: "Drink some yogurt to suppress it; don't be too fierce."

Jie Han immediately refilled Fang Ziye's yogurt cup, and Fang Ziye took a sip without being polite.

Chugging two liang of alcohol in one mouthful was like eating and drinking water for some people, but for Fang Ziye, his stomach was completely churning, and the corners of his eyes were wet; he did not know if it was too spicy, too happy, or too moved.

"Do you understand the deep meaning of Professor Du asking you to work hard and prepare?" Yuan Weihong said while Fang Ziye was in the stage of sobering up from alcohol.

"Let me write more articles in the future, strive to stay in the hospital, and if I can further advance in professional operations, I can be relatively more mature." Fang Ziye replied thus.

Yuan Weihong nodded and shook his head: "What you said is only the first layer of meaning. The second layer of meaning is that you already possess the basic qualities of a senior orthopedics technical worker doctor, but do not possess the basic qualities of an orthopedics research doctor."

"Can you understand this layer of meaning?"

Fang Ziye blinked his eyes, half-understanding.

"Anyone with discerning eyes can know the background of the article under your name. At that time Jie Han, you hadn't arrived yet; I didn't even know you were my student." Yuan Weihong turned his head to explain a sentence to Jie Han.

Jie Han hurriedly put on a smiling face; he was not jealous now; he had just enrolled and had already reached the graduation requirement; what was he anxious for!

"Without innovation and research, one can only tread in place forever. Whether clinical research or basic research, both require mastering the most basic research methods; this is a tool."

"The most key difference between doctoral students and master's students and undergraduates is the number of methods mastered."

"If you want to have the heart to make waves in the academic field of the world, then these basic methods, you must master well."

"Once mastered, you may not be able to do it, but you also haven't completely extinguished this dream, because research is a tool through which you can directly converse with the whole world."

"So, experimental methods, data processing methods, and some basic processes of basic experiments must be firmly mastered."

"Current top teaching hospitals no longer need purely senior technical workers. Because only research can create characteristics unique to oneself."

"The current era is no longer a time when exquisite operations alone can change the heavens and replace the sun."

"The highest hall of medicine is also never in clinical..." Yuan Weihong finished speaking and took a sip alone.

Fang Ziye and Jie Han listened as Yuan Weihong spoke such lofty words, their gazes growing ever more distant.

From Yuan Weihong's perspective, for graduate students like them, that was too far away.

They hadn't even entered Zhongnan Hospital, let alone looking out over the whole city; the whole city still hadn't figured things out, yet they wanted to know about a global transformation—it was far too vague and illusory.

Chapter End