Chapter 87: Opening the Back Door (Seeking Subscriptions)

After returning to the rented room, Fang Ziye first took a comfortable shower, poured a glass of water, and placed it on the right-hand side of the desk; feeling the placement was poor and it might get knocked over, he simply used two books to sandwich the cup in the middle.

After turning on the desk lamp switch, he slowly flipped through the contents recorded in his own notebook—

Undevelopable paths—

"1. Reading newly discovered relevant literature; the knowledge points gained are quite limited. Reason speculated: not driven by oneself."

"2. Observing other experimental groups or one's own research not participating in cell experiments; reason speculated: not participating oneself, may not involve driving the development of the discipline."

"3. Performing therapeutic operations on animals; reason speculated: the panel currently targets only assistance for medical activities related to the treatment and diagnosis of human diseases, not involving the animal level."

"4. Writing and revising ghostwritten articles; reason speculated: not personally operated by oneself, therefore does not drive the development of the discipline much."

After reading, Fang Ziye carefully wrote down the fifth undevelopable path after skipping a line.

"5. Operating on one's own wounds. (Pending verification)"

The reason Fang Ziye added this point was mainly because two days ago, after returning home, he didn't know where he scraped himself; it only broke the skin. Fang Ziye disinfected it with povidone-iodine and covered it with a Band-Aid, but no knowledge points were credited.

Pain didn't matter; basically, aside from rich family sons, which boy growing up doesn't have some small scars and bumps on their hands and feet, and those with scars on their faces are not few.

Fang Ziye paid attention to it not because he was injured, but to develop a new source of knowledge points, making a note; after all, a good memory is no match for a bad pen.

Flipping three more pages of the notebook, Fang Ziye arrived at the developable knowledge point paths.

After the five treasure troves of Outpatient Clinic, Operating Room, Laboratory, Training Room, and Emergency, he cautiously added a line—

The knowledge point yield from manual reduction technique for joint dislocation reduction is, comparatively speaking, a bit abnormal; reason temporarily unknown.

It is indeed so.

Fang Ziye had not never done clinical operations before; it was just that he hadn't done as many manual reduction techniques. But even completing clinical wound suturing, and some other minor operations, even internal fixation device removal surgery, from incision technique to removing the internal fixation device, to suturing technique.

And even under the relatively higher difficulty of intramedullary nail internal fixation device removal surgery, he only got five knowledge points, while a joint dislocation, which in current medical definition is a procedure with smaller difficulty than internal fixation device removal surgery, could obtain so many knowledge points.

An average of five to ten points per patient; this is a point well worth noting. After drawing a five-pointed star symbol as a key mark, Fang Ziye began processing WeChat messages.

First naturally was to ask his own teacher for the situation clearly: "Master, what did Professor Du say? Did Professor Du and the College agree to my application for early defense?"

Many teaching hospitals, including Zhongnan Hospital, generally have concentrated and fixed defense times for Orthopedics.

For example, this batch of Master's third-year students like Fang Ziye should be arranged for defense together with this batch of Doctoral third-year students like Sun Shaoqing, which is better for unified arrangement.

At the same time, inviting multiple defense committee members to form a defense committee can complete the defense work of multiple graduate students at once, and also save the superiors' time.

Because for each defense, the hospital will definitely send people to host, and arrange at least Associate Professors and Professors to accompany throughout.

However, on Sun Shaoqing's side, because he urgently needed to find a job, he applied to Teacher Deng for an early defense opportunity. Teacher Deng happened to form a doctoral thesis defense committee, and also found a defense chairman and defense committee members.

Those qualified to become members of a doctoral graduate academic thesis defense committee, adding a master's academic thesis defense like Fang Ziye's, is naturally feasible.

Teacher Deng definitely has no objection; the main issue is Professor Du Xinzhan, whether he is willing to agree to Fang Ziye opening this small back door; the College side has no problem either.

Every clinical college wishes its students would graduate early, get employed or continue studies early, to increase the employment rate.

Employment rate is the most fundamental hardcore indicator for evaluating a teaching hospital or college.

But Professor Du Xinzhan is the Orthopedics Chief Director, a professor of Joint Surgery; Fang Ziye has no teacher-student relationship with him, nor are they from the same department. Apart from knowing Fang Ziye is a Trauma Surgery master's graduate student with barely passable talent, Du Xinzhan knows nothing else.

Naturally it wouldn't be Fang Ziye going to talk to Du Xinzhan; it would be Yuan Weihong applying to Professor Du Xinzhan.

Yuan Weihong replied quickly: "What else could Professor Du say? Old Professor Li has already made subsequent arrangements for you; what else can Professor Du say?"

"However, one point: your thesis must go to blind review, which takes turnaround time, depends on luck. If luck is good and blind review passes with signatures, you defend."

"If blind review doesn't pass, let's all just wash up and sleep. Don't think about this anymore."

"It's already late November now; your Shaoqing Senior Brother's defense time has been confirmed for January 20th; this has already been pushed back thirty days, giving you enough time."

"Privately remember to tell Shaoqing Senior Brother thanks and sorry and such." Yuan Weihong's guidance to Fang Ziye was quite meticulous.

Speaking of it, Yuan Weihong felt his student was also quite tiger; daring to directly raise conditions with Old Professor Li, the key point being he wasn't rejected, and Old Professor Li actually arranged for Fang Ziye to go mix in a prefecture-level city hospital for a while.

The old professor sold face, found such a good opportunity for Fang Ziye; how could Professor Du Xinzhan and Teacher Deng possibly still obstruct from the middle and delay Fang Ziye's future?

Just this way, the time would have to be even tighter.

"Mm, Master, I've already told Sun Senior Brother; Sun Senior Brother said his defense prep is also slightly rushed, being able to push back a month is also a good thing."

"Although these are polite words, at least Shaoqing Senior Brother shouldn't be angry. Because around December 24th, Shaoqing Senior Brother plans to go to Magic Capital Sixth People's Hospital to compete for a shadowing assessment. He also needs to prepare." Fang Ziye replied meticulously.

Nearing graduation, the matter of doctoral studies, although already confirmed, but having to intersperse a trip to a prefecture-level city hospital in between, time really needs to be squeezed out.

The experience of mixing in a prefecture-level city hospital is naturally precious; this counts as grassroots work experience, many benefits for Fang Ziye's future promotion in professional title, future prospects go without saying.

"Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, agreeing to push it back for you is a favor; not agreeing is duty."

"Then, the project proposal Jie Han applied for, I've already revised a bit; after he finishes, hand it to you, then revise once more."

"Such a proposal cannot be sent to others; it can only be circulated and revised among the three of us." Yuan Weihong instructed Fang Ziye, as if afraid Fang Ziye would sell out the small research group.

Although the current Yuan Weihong already knows Fang Ziye's ambitious aspirations, that he doesn't want to take money to feed outsiders, he still remains cautious.

"Master, what about the surface project proposal? I've made a simple outline."

"With these preliminary researches, shouldn't it only need adding some cited literature and background?" Fang Ziye asked further.

Surface projects are also called general projects; they cover a broad scope and are the main part of the National Natural Science Foundation of China research project series, supporting scientific and technical personnel engaged in basic research to independently select topics within the scope of NSFC funding.

Surface projects are the most basic funding project category of the Science Foundation; their funding amount accounts for about 60% of the total Science Foundation funds; they are a strategic battleground for researchers, something all universities and research units fight for every year.

"Surface project is the National Natural Science Foundation; this needs to be slowly polished, no amount of caution and meticulousness is excessive. The more fully we prepare, the greater the chance of winning the bid; I will also spend a lot of time on this."

"You did the preliminary research well, saved me a lot of trouble; otherwise, starting from December, I'd also have to run to the lab."

"Then it's like this: during your master's, don't let papers weigh you down; the experimental result data you have now, even if already written up, don't rush to submit and publish."

"The research on HK2 and giant cell tumor of bone, and the reaction between these two things and metformin, best to combine them into one manuscript; this way, one might expect an eight or even ten-point first-tier journal article."

"If it can be published in the early stage of your doctoral studies, then your ambition to graduate early can be expected; otherwise, I'm a bit afraid your resume for hospital retention won't be enough if you apply for doctoral graduation."

"The project Jie Han applied for, at most only 15,000 yuan; but a mosquito is still meat no matter how small. For this project, you let Jie Han operate it himself; from him getting the project to the funding being allocated down, there should also be half a year or more; by then Jie Han will also have to soak in the lab."

"His conditions are better than yours now; he has a senior brother to rely on, so I can rest assured letting him enter the lab early."

"Also, clinical professional operations need a bit of thought; don't blame the teacher for giving you too much psychological pressure; your current hand surgery sub-specialty capability is more impressive than our trauma surgery sub-specialty."

"Speaking honestly, although we discussed keeping you, I still feel a bit guilty." Yuan Weihong's reply was in text, but every word seemed as if it could be personally narrated from Yuan Weihong's mouth.

Fang Ziye listened with pleasure and replied just as naturally and easily: "Master, in terms of professional operations, I feel there's still no big problem. At most another forty or fifty jin of meat, and in terms of Incision Technique, it should be about done."

After adding points to Suturing Technique, spending five hundred points at once, nearly adding points to Suturing Technique until he could press Associate Professor Xie into the ground with sheer force, Fang Ziye is now quite cautious.

He no longer adds fifty points at a time; every day he adds five points to Incision Technique, immovable as a mountain, and once he can reach the passing standard of the First Training Room of Trauma Surgery, Fang Ziye plans to stop.

Don't let something outrageous happen again when the time comes.

For now, enough is enough; the quantity of Knowledge Points, compared to the quantity of surgical operations, is far from sufficient.

If five hundred Knowledge Points were still there, Fang Ziye could even perform Specialty Skill operations right now—

Bone Defect splicing technique, Bone Plastic Surgery, Bone Flap Design.

These operations, in terms of Trauma Surgery, actually have a certain leap; the best progression path is Fracture Open Reduction Internal Fixation, as well as Tendon Repair, Nerve Anastomosis.

But in Zhongnan Hospital, there's temporarily no such necessity.

No fracture surgeries are given to you to do; even if you do them to a godly level, so what? Zhongnan Hospital hasn't done simple fractures for a long time.

And once complex fractures are involved, Bone Defect, Bone Plastic Surgery, and Bone Flap Design Bone Grafting Surgery are inevitably indispensable.

And these, once learned well, Fracture Open Reduction Internal Fixation will naturally be mastered too; comparatively speaking, it doesn't count as having too much technical content.

If Fracture Open Reduction Internal Fixation is junior high physics, then Bone Defect related treatment techniques are at least high school to second-year university physics difficulty; if you can be transparent, even if you haven't learned junior high physics.

Through the later textbooks, you can still know the simple content inside junior high physics.

Hearing this, Yuan Weihong smiled knowingly and replied with a message: "Tomorrow I'll buy you a hundred jin of pork, you give me a performance?"

The conversation having reached here, it was purely the joking stage.

Fang Ziye then picked up his phone and replied with an embarrassed voice message: "Master, it can't be calculated like this. If just by the weight of pork consumed in practice you can get corresponding operational skills, wouldn't it be great if I went to the hospital and applied for special High-Precision Advanced Professional Funds?"

"Get a hundred or two hundred thousand, go to the Slaughterhouse, at least twenty or thirty pigs can be bought, right?"

"Then wouldn't I be invincible on the spot?"

"I don't care, I want to see the technique. I'll provide the pork, you hurry up and solve it. Whenever you can solve it, I'll get the meat ready." Yuan Weihong played the rogue.

"Master, how about we just go out for a Dinner Gathering instead? I'll give you a Progress Report anytime." After replying this, Fang Ziye added: "Master, Fellow Trainee sent over his revised grant application draft."

Fang Ziye had just put down his phone; unexpectedly, Jie Han sent another SCI paper manuscript, Netmeta Analysis.

Fang Ziye was speechless on the spot, used his computer to screenshot and sent Jie Han's credit to his teacher Yuan Weihong.

Yuan Weihong: "..."

"Prolific!!!!" Yuan Weihong replied with three characters, four exclamation marks.

Fang Ziye didn't reply to Yuan Weihong anymore, because he had no face.

Compared to his Fellow Trainee Jie Han, aside from a slight advantage professionally, he was crushed in every other aspect until he had nowhere to hide.

Yes, even professionally, Fang Ziye has an advantage. In this time period, Fang Ziye already has two basic skills at the second layer of Practice Material, while Jie Han has only just passed Suturing Technique.

So even without the Cheat before, perhaps Fang Ziye would still hold a certain advantage.

The paper, Fang Ziye didn't even look at it; in front of Jie Han, he's just a little brother.

However, Jie Han said: "Holy shit, Senior Brother, this tm? Do you know who sent it to me?"

This sentence from Jie Han left Fang Ziye's thoughts slightly stunned.

"Don't tell me it's Lan Tianluo?" Fang Ziye asked.

"It's him, Senior Brother." After sending the text, Jie Han also sent a shocked emoticon.

Netmeta Analysis, also known as Network Meta-Analysis, is generally used for all studies in an evidence body composed of three or more interventions, combining direct and indirect comparisons, conducting weighted combined analysis based on Meta-analysis technology.

Also a Tool Article, when comparing workload, if Meta-analysis workload is unit 1, Netmeta Analysis workload is estimated at more than ten times.

"This Lan Tianluo?" Fang Ziye was slightly speechless.

Jie Han then said: "Senior Brother, Brother Tian Luo is absolutely a god-tier figure. He should have self-studied computer-related content. The web crawler he can make can directly search for keyword-related papers online, and there's also a Data Package that can directly crawl data out of papers."

"The Evidence Network Plot and NMA (abbreviation for Netmeta Analysis) plots inside look fucking amazing. Sending out a five, six, seven, or eight-point article is estimated to be more than enough."

Fang Ziye asked: "So it can be mass-produced?"

"In principle yes, but Brother Tian Luo only knows how to make plots, not so much analysis. The Paper Draft he writes, that... let's just not say that." Jie Han replied like this.

"But revising it is relatively easy too, not as high quality as the Two Articles you gave me before, Senior Brother."

"Oh right, Senior Brother, do you know why your previous articles could never get accepted?" Jie Han asked at the end.

Fang Ziye was naturally curious: "How so?"

Always mooching off Fellow Trainee, it's ultimately not too reliable.

"Senior Brother, your background and discussion have no big problem. It's just that when presenting results, it's not that intuitive. And the discussion part doesn't have a particularly direct logical correlation with this paper's data."

"I found Literature, inserted ten sentences, and submitted it. And since you had revised it before, Senior Brother, there wasn't even a revision step." Jie Han replied in quite meticulous detail.

Fang Ziye pondered for a while and said: "I saw it too. Fellow Trainee, your paper writing skill is really good."

This is truly enviable but unattainable. Even writing articles related to scientific papers, those with good writing skills might be able to submit to journals with higher Impact Factors.

Others, you can only watch.

"Not bad, standard routine."

"He already applied for Professional Master's Student. Said he contacted a teacher inside the College. This College Leader heard about Brother Tian Luo's past record and went to argue directly."

"Result: they won the argument. Brother Tian Luo's second major can directly read Professional Master's. They opened the back door for him." Jie Han felt incomparably shocked.

(Chapter End)