Chapter 334: Small Goals and Internal Graduation (Seeking Subscriptions)

Although the matter Han Yuanxiao discussed with Fang Ziye was sensitive, it was not something that could not be spoken of, after all, Professor Han Yuanxiao had also followed Teacher Deng Yong for quite a long time before becoming independent.

After becoming independent and leading his own group, he now held the title of Ward Administrative Director.

If one truly traced it back, Professor Han Yuanxiao's supervisor had already retired, Teacher Deng Yong's master's supervisor was Professor Dong Yaohui, but his doctoral supervisor was someone else entirely; clarifying this account completely would be very complex...

"Of course, Xiao Fang, there is another matter I specifically called you for today. Guess what it is?" After skipping over the previous topic, Han Yuanxiao dangled another hook.

Hearing this, Fang Ziye thought that given his current position, it was either a matter of where to go, or a matter of planning for the future.

"Professor Han, my current identity is that of a doctoral student nearing graduation, so it is not easy to apply for research projects. Even if done quickly, applying for a general youth fund would have to wait until next year."

"It's not that I've been slacking off, Teacher Han." Fang Ziye thought Han Yuanxiao wanted to reprimand him to work hard to secure projects.

The more projects a department secures, the more awesome the department becomes; the person in charge of the department, within the surgical system of the entire Zhongnan Hospital system, has even more say.

Whether clinical projects or basic research projects, both are measurable standards and the result of everyone working hard together, rather than one person or a small team single-handedly challenging another department.

Han Yuanxiao shook his head: "That's not right. What you need to solve this year is graduation and employment. The matter of applying for general projects naturally has nothing to do with you and is not your main task."

"Have you not considered how long you will stay in your current position?"

"Our hospital, in principle, requires a chief resident to serve until the next chief resident can take over."

"The general meaning is that if one wants to safely step down as chief resident, for example, when Qin Geluo stepped down, Li Nuo took over; Li Nuo's reason for stepping down was that Jin Hongzhou became chief resident."

"But Jin Hongzhou was temporarily dealt with, and after Li Nuo was transferred out, this chief resident position was actually being vacated for Qin Geluo, until you take office."

"This is unavoidable. There are only so many people in the department and only so many tasks; everyone must share the burden together."

Han Yuanxiao's explanation made Fang Ziye clearly understand Han Yuanxiao's meaning.

Fang Ziye asked in amazement: "Professor Han, could it be that the new employees of our Orthopedics' five subspecialties are under a competitive system, where every year which subspecialty hires and which does not is not absolutely based on need, but on who is more excellent?"

Fang Ziye had been in his doctoral program for too short a time, so he knew little about the hospital's hiring matters.

Moreover, Fang Ziye had grown too fast: one BMJ invitation, and several major papers with impact factors over twenty.

Although not first author, he could not compare with top-tier geniuses in Internal Medicine who publish in big journals like JAMA, but such excellence was already enough for Orthopedics to open wide the doors of convenience for Fang Ziye.

Early graduation, plus a promised hospital retention quota, was a case of pushing the boat with the current.

"That's right! ~"

"Think about it: when every class of doctoral students graduates, why do the professors leading groups slightly favor the graduating doctoral students with surgical opportunities?" Han Yuanxiao gave Fang Ziye time to reflect.

Fang Ziye had, by now, experienced four senior brothers graduating in the department.

The first was at the end of the first year of graduate studies; that was Senior Brother Peng, then Senior Brother Lin Xuanlei, then Sun Shaoqing who graduated in the same class as Fang Ziye's master's, and now Wang Yuanqi and Gu Yi!

Four classes, five people.

The situation was exactly as Han Yuanxiao had said.

"Professor Han, what if, for many years, no one from our Trauma Surgery subspecialty gets hired?" Fang Ziye asked.

"If no one from a subspecialty is hired for three consecutive years, one will be forcibly assigned, and the chief resident of the specialty will not be allowed to serve too long." Han Yuanxiao said.

After pondering for a few moments, he continued: "You are already employed now, so you should know that even between different brother departments within the same hospital and same specialty, there is competition."

"This setting aims to improve the educational quality and standards of each subspecialty."

"So, actually, every chief resident will focus on selecting a few doctoral students to mentor. March is your first time taking office as chief resident, and with the major task of graduation, I didn't mention this to you..."

"I see your usual performance; Teacher Deng probably hasn't mentioned it to you either. Actually, Teacher Deng has no need to avoid suspicion like this..." Han Yuanxiao respected Deng Yong very much.

Because Deng Yong, who had once been an administrative director, might understand the details of these matters even more clearly than Han Yuanxiao himself, but Deng Yong never overstepped; after stepping down as administrative director, he did not reveal some things even to his own students.

This is the inheritance of Trauma Surgery.

Back when Professor Deng Yong took over the chief position, his own supervisor was the former Trauma Surgery Administrative Director, Professor Dong Yaohui; after Dong Yaohui stepped down, he no longer interfered in any department matters, including personnel authority.

"Teacher Han means letting me take better care of Jinhuan?" Fang Ziye laid out the matter directly—

Fang Ziye's class originally had three people: Fang Ziye, Li Yuanpei, and Xiong Jinhuan. If one also counted Luo Tingzhu from the Eight-Year Program, that would be one more.

Fang Ziye graduated early; Xiong Jinhuan's talent was originally the best among the three, a big shot with double success in clinical research.

Li Yuanpei's talent might also be quite good, at least better than the original Fang Ziye, but Li Yuanpei's growth had been pulled up by the seedlings, and his chance of staying at the hospital was probably not great.

Before graduating with his master's, Xiong Jinhuan had directly obtained Professor Han Yuanxiao's signature, equivalent to a hundred percent chance of continuing his studies, proving Professor Han Yuanxiao valued Xiong Jinhuan very highly.

Li Yuanpei had his person of gratitude, Teacher Deng; Xiong Jinhuan likewise had his own person of gratitude.

"Right! ~" Han Yuanxiao replied very straightforwardly.

"I'm just recommending the worthy without avoiding relatives. For Lu Zhe Fu's class, our department only had Dong Wenqiang delaying graduation to rush for a retention spot, but for Jinhuan's class? I personally feel Xiong Jinhuan's qualification is the best."

Han Yuanxiao said this, then without avoiding suspicion added: "Of course, compared to Xiao Luo, Jinhuan is still a bit lacking, but not by much."

"I'll emphasize one point: Xiao Fang, now that you're in the chief resident position, how to arrange emergency surgeries and the operations within emergency surgeries is your absolute freedom."

"This is not something the administrative director can influence; it is also the chief resident's freedom of choice as stipulated by the hospital."

During the chief resident term, emergency surgeries and emergency consultations are the responsibility of the chief resident.

At this time, who the chief resident chooses to find and who to cultivate depends entirely on the chief resident's own will.

The chief resident undertakes this task and responsibility, and has no teaching obligation relationship with anyone, so of course they can choose autonomously?

I bear the responsibility here, but have not a shred of convenience; can one bully people like this?

After leaving Professor Han Yuanxiao's office, Fang Ziye indeed felt his horizons and senses refreshed.

Carefully considering the subspecialty competitive hiring mechanism, it seemed cruel, but with a four-year-per-person safety net, it also seemed humane.

Overall, it was still upward and extremely good for the specialty's development.

In this day and age, for a department and hospital to develop, using mild measures definitely won't do, but using heavy measures definitely won't do either.

Han Yuanxiao was already laying the groundwork for the hiring two years from now.

Xiong Jinhuan; Xiong Jinhuan's talent was truly not bad, and his character was also good. Professor Han Yuanxiao had brought it up; in the future, more opportunities could be given.

As for Li Yuanpei? Fang Ziye was actually unwilling to actively judge others' futures and talents.

But the undeniable fact was that Li Yuanpei's talent was also truly mediocre.

Forget it, just go with the flow and cherish it.

In life, fate with many people is destined to be shallow; unless there's an accident, it's basically set.

Even with Fang Ziye's help, Li Yuanpei couldn't be made more outstanding than Xiong Jinhuan, and Fang Ziye didn't have so much time.

With no emergency surgery, Fang Ziye then left the operating room.

Besides being Chief Resident, Fang Ziye was currently a Junior Physician in Deng Yong's Group, serving as the bridge between Professor Deng Yong and the Junior Physicians, apart from Yuan Weihong and Qin Geluo.

"What does Director Han want from you?" Fang Ziye entered the operating room just as it was in its turnover interval.

Yuan Weihong and Professor Deng Yong went to the Smoking Room to relax, leaving only Qin Geluo under the Timing Panel in the operating room; the moment Fang Ziye appeared, he carried out the unpleasant duty.

Since both Deng and Yuan were Fang Ziye's teachers, it was inconvenient to ask directly.

Hearing Qin Geluo's formal tone and the mention of Director Han, Fang Ziye knew this was definitely a political mission from Deng Yong, so he told everything about his conversation with Professor Han Yuanxiao, big or small, without concealing anything special.

"Not much different from Professor Deng Yong's guess. But Director Han's appetite is a bit shallower than what Professor Deng said; he only asked you to mentor Xiong Jinhuan more, not to additionally saddle Lu Zhe Fu onto you."

"At least the convenient resources of the Hospitalist Position aren't being completely carved up." Qin Geluo's reply was very official.

"Brother Luo, then what do you think I should choose?" Qin Geluo's reply meant he definitely had a clearer meaning to convey.

"Director Han's Group can go, but not now. The people in Director Han's Group need to be recruited, but not starting now."

"People, after all, have their school lineage; after traditional apprenticeship, they must serve their Master's School for a while. Our medicine isn't so traditional, but we still need to show some affection in caring for fellow disciples."

"Promotion needs a benefactor's help; to fulfill dreams, only family support will do."

"Clinical practice doesn't divide the family. Hold to this basic line, and there won't be much problem." Qin Geluo conveyed the meaning of Deng Yong and Yuan Weihong this way.

The meaning was obvious: for Fang Ziye to advance professionally, he needed the support of Director Han Yuanxiao, the current Administrative Director.

But research is fundamental; the foundation lies in the Master's School. For the Master's School to grow strong, Fang Ziye must, like Yuan Weihong, strive to a place where Director Han can't help, such as Outstanding Youth Fund, Distinguished Youth, Changjiang Scholar, Academician, and so on—then he can only rely on family.

After hearing this, Fang Ziye's first reaction was: "Master was truly pitiful before."

"Brother Wei? Yes!" Qin Geluo sighed, and the two paused their conversation.

Because Professor Deng Yong walked in, and at first glance looked toward Fang Ziye, his gaze and tone slightly pondering as he said: "Ziye, prepare slightly for internal graduation."

(Chapter End)