Chapter 8

A graduate supervisor at Zhongnan Hospital can be a professor, or an associate professor or a young attending physician holding that role.

Following a professor, especially a doctoral supervisor, for a master's degree brings countless benefits that need no elaboration.

But in fact, following a young supervisor isn't necessarily all bad either.

Under a big-name professor, students are numerous, doctoral candidates cluster together, and a master's student is utterly inconspicuous.

But before a little mentor, student numbers are few, and the attention and meticulous guidance given are considerable.

Especially for every teacher, toward their first student and their last student, there exists an inexplicable sentiment.

"Thank you, Master." Fang Ziye swallowed his emotions down, condensing them into four words.

Yuan Weihong, however, had already walked away carefree, not staying on to give Fang Ziye too much pressure.

After changing into his own clothes in the changing room, Fang Ziye's gaze grew slightly steady.

SCI stands for Science Citation Index.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences classifies SCI zones by the journal's three-year average impact factor: Zone 1: top 5%; Zone 2: 6%–20%; Zone 3: 21%–50%; Zone 4: bottom 50%.

By analogy, two to three CSCD papers may not equal a single Zone 4 SCI paper.

And two to three Zone 2 SCI papers are needed to equal a single Zone 1 SCI paper.

A Chinese Academy of Sciences Zone 1 SCI article belongs to the world's top 5% of journals; this is generally the exclusive domain of academic big shots, and usually only someone as thoroughly versed in research as one's own teacher can submit successfully.

Admittedly, Yuan Weihong is certainly the corresponding author of the article, and ownership belongs to him.

But in terms of academic recognition, first author and corresponding author are almost equivalent.

If Yuan Weihong wished, he could completely use this paper to curry favor with a professor or associate professor, further raising his standing in their eyes.

And even professors inside Zhongnan Hospital wouldn't dare claim they completely disregard the honor of having a Zone 1 SCI paper to their name...

It was given, and given by the teacher, so just accept it silently, and bury this matter deep in one's bones.

【Knowledge Points gained: 6.】

【Medical Basic Operational Skills: Incision Technique Level 2 0/50, Suture Skill Level 2 0/50, Debridement Technique Level 2 0/50, Hemostasis Technique Level 2 0/50...】

【Current Knowledge Points: 9.】

After the previous point allocation, the progress for Debridement Technique and Hemostasis Technique was: Debridement Technique Level 1 15/20, Hemostasis Technique Level 1 15/20...

Over the past two days, Fang Ziye carefully pondered the five beds he and his fellow trainee managed in the ward, and by promptly discovering deep vein thrombosis and suggesting a Doppler ultrasound, he gained 3 Knowledge Points through diagnosis, and gained another 1 Knowledge Point through requesting a consultation.

This brought the large increase in Knowledge Points to eight points; over two days, scattered increases added 2 more points, which allowed Fang Ziye last night to raise both Hemostasis Technique and Debridement Technique to Level 2.

However, soaking in the training room for two days, the progress of Incision Technique and Suture Skill didn't budge at all; aside from gaining a small amount of Knowledge Points, it seemed utterly useless.

In fact, last night he had already emptied his Knowledge Points.

Today is surgery day; Fang Ziye, by ingratiating himself with the circulating nurses in the OR and smoothing relations with several doctoral senior brothers in advance, and having his own teacher put in a word with Associate Professor Xie, only then obtained a chance to suture a wound.

Fang Ziye is an old hand in the department, in his third year of master's, works diligently; occasionally requesting to suture a case, with Yuan Weihong's face, it's still not difficult.

Three Knowledge Points, and these six Knowledge Points just now, were gained by serving as assistant in this surgery led by the teacher!

"It should be different weightings."

"For some disease types, early diagnosis is more significant than treatment; for others, treatment is more significant than diagnosis."

"Take thrombus for example — it needs earlier discovery. But take a surgical incision wound — diagnosis has absolutely no medical significance; only performing the operation has significance!"

Thinking this, after leaving the operating room, Fang Ziye first went to the department.

Although the few beds he managed were all postoperative patients, in the afternoon there was nothing needing correction!

Naturally, Fang Ziye's routine bed management is meticulous, and his fellow trainee Jie Han isn't a sloppy, foundationless person either; Fang Ziye lingered in the department for half an hour, yet made no progress.

Only then did he simply give up.

He absolutely dared not covetously meddle with beds managed by others.

He's just a lowly master's student, not a superior; what are you doing reading other people's medical orders and records?

You can scan a glance; if an obvious error appears, give a heads-up to the other classmates or fellow trainees to avoid them getting scolded — that's it; beyond that, one must still recognize one's own positioning.

He isn't that much stronger than others.

Fang Ziye thus continued soaking in the training room.

In the training room, the practice material for Debridement Technique is extremely singular — only tofu.

The definition of Debridement Technique: using surgical methods to remove foreign bodies from open wounds, excise necrotic, devitalized, or severely contaminated tissue, suture the wound, so as to minimize contamination or even turn it into a clean wound.

Therefore, the practice method for Debridement Technique is actually quite simple.

The first stage simulates foreign body removal: directly on the surface, grab a handful of sand and flick it in with fingertips, then use forceps and other instruments to clean out the flicked-in fine sand completely.

The second stage simulates excision of necrotic tissue: requires the trainee to complete carving of tofu, very precisely mastering the shape and thickness of the excised tofu — cannot be thick; thick means excessive excision of normal tissue in surgery.

Also cannot be thin; if not all necrotic tissue is excised, the probability of subsequent infection is quite high.

The third stage is carving simplified Chinese characters on the tofu surface, to practice your knife control more precisely and flexibly.

The fourth stage is carving the tofu into three-dimensional simplified characters — only a one-character difference, yet the difficulty is worlds apart...

After Debridement Technique reached Level 2, Fang Ziye could already complete the second stage.

For example, using a scalpel to very precisely debride the tofu edges into a uniform curved surface, etc., but wanting to carve simplified characters, the operation still isn't refined enough.

Fang Ziye is still in the midst of practice.

The characters Fang Ziye carves are the Fang surname character; but when carving this character on the surface, it's easy to tear the tofu into a scarred mess.

Just as he lifted his head slightly dejectedly, he discovered his classmates Li Yuanpei and Xiong Jinhuan standing at the operating table watching.

"Brother Pei, Older Brother, any guidance?" Fang Ziye pursed his lips and asked for advice, his voice neither humblebragging nor sarcastic.

Even with point allocation up to this point, these two classmates' progress is still faster than his own.

"This needs Older Brother." Li Yuanpei said.

Most of Li Yuanpei's time was invested in the writing of articles; his time soaking in the Training Room was not enough, his operational strength was not as good as Xiong Jinhuan's, and of course, the quantity of his articles was also slightly inferior to Xiong Jinhuan's.

Xiong Jinhuan thought for a moment, and did not hide anything: "A scalpel is not a pen; the degree of turning back and forth is hard to control. During the operation, you need to withdraw the blade once, then insert it again, the depth equivalent to before, the angle docking perfectly with the previous one……"

"Debridement Technique and Incision Technique actually cannot be completely separated."

Li Yuanpei and Fang Ziye were both thoughtful……

When they came out of the Training Room, it was originally two people walking; it became three people walking.

Xiong Jinhuan was of medium height, slightly chubby build; the whole person looked quite honest. Turning her head, she asked: "Industry Brother, heard Wei Ge say you wrote a First-tier Journal Article?"

The value of a First-tier Journal Article, not only did a "Master's Student Big Shot" like Xiong Jinhuan who had a double harvest in research and clinical work envy it, even Doctors envied it tightly.

Just based on the value of this one First-tier Journal Article, let's put it this way: perhaps Fang Ziye cannot read a PhD, but he might be able to stay at Han City's City-level Hospital!

Fang Ziye's heart stiffened: "My Teacher revised it many times."

The content of the articles everyone writes, others are completely unaware of, and it is also impossible to give you a look; but the matter of Fang Ziye previously finding Yuan Weihong to revise his thesis many times, everyone in the Department knew.

This is the information blind spot that exists for everyone.

As a Master's Student inside Zhongnan Hospital, Fang Ziye's qualification was slightly better, stronger than both Xiong Jinhuan and Li Yuanpei; publishing a First-tier SCI, although stunning, was also reasonable.

Only Fang Ziye himself knew, this was a gift his Teacher wanted to give him for an external hospital Doctor opportunity.

(Chapter End)