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Chapter 129 We are our own strength! (Second update, please subscribe)
When Deng Yong knocked and entered, Xiao Kaifa was slightly flustered. But on the surface, he still greeted him with a smile and enthusiasm: "Professor Deng, Happy New Year!"

Deng Yong is a senior professor in orthopedics, which is an upstream department of Zhongnan Hospital. Even if he were to step down from his position as director, his role as director of the research department might not be as important as Deng Yong's.

Because something like this had happened before, in the past, there was a professor in the Department of Orthopedics at Zhongnan Hospital who lost the competition for the position of chief physician. He was a little upset and went to the vice president to ask why he hadn't been promoted.

As a result, the vice president couldn't control his emotions and confused the professor, who then resigned and went to the Hubei Provincial Cancer Hospital. In just over five years, the Hubei Provincial Cancer Hospital has now firmly established itself as the fourth-ranked bone tumor specialist hospital in the province.

If it weren't for President Wang of Zhongnan Hospital intervening to bring him back, and Professor Du of the Bone Tumor Department having an excellent relationship with President Wang, it's hard to say whether the professor of Bone Tumor would have been willing to come back.

After this incident, the people in the hospital's administrative departments no longer dared to underestimate the senior-level strength of Zhongnan Hospital, which was an upstream department.

After all, ten years ago, the provincial cancer hospital was just a cancer hospital in name only. When it came to actually treating osteosarcoma, they probably didn't even have a clear understanding of chemotherapy regimens related to bone tumors, let alone surgery and neoadjuvant chemotherapy before and after surgery.

Chemotherapy for cancer is much more than just what's in textbooks; it's a specialized treatment, and that's no exaggeration...

Moreover, Xiao Kaifa couldn't be sure if it was because a professor from the Department of Respiratory Medicine had come to him that morning to ask about the lab, and Professor Deng Yong had found out about it and was now looking for him for tea.

"Director Xiao, it's like this, our research group is currently facing a funding shortfall. I was thinking that the hospital should have some special funding for this, so I was hoping that you could help me with the procedures."

"Sign and stamp it, then I'll send the materials up first." Deng Yong wasn't too arrogant; he was relatively refined.

If you speak kindly, no one wants to argue.

Xiao Kai's scalp tightened instantly, his mind in turmoil—

Good grief, Professor Deng, you haven't even figured out what's going on in your lab yet, and now you're asking for money?

Was the meeting held before the Lunar New Year a waste of time?
The Department of Orthopedics has only six dedicated laboratories in total. The Department of Bone Tumors must have three because the research foundation of the Bone Tumors specialty is the best. The other four subspecialties only have three laboratories. In theory, trauma surgery and hand surgery are relatively weak research disciplines.

But Xiao Kaifa didn't react: "Professor Deng, the procedure can proceed normally, but..."

As Xiao Kaifa spoke, he looked at the subsidy application form that Deng Yong had submitted, and then paused in surprise.

Deng Yong asked for 900,000 yuan right away.

He looked up at Professor Deng Yong and said, "Professor Deng, are you joking?"

"Director Xiao, how could I be joking? It must be true."

"The hospital and school's current policy is to support major research projects and publications. Director Xiao, please take a look first, but you still need to sign the papers." Deng Yong wasn't here to ask for a favor; he was just there to inform people.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Kaifa frowned slightly and continued reading.

It wasn't until I saw Professor Deng Yong's detailed data report and funding gap analysis in the "Analysis of Funding Gaps in Ongoing Projects" section, along with the simple workload calculations and expected results upon project completion, that I finally felt a surge of emotion.

"Professor Deng, please have a seat. Let me pour you a cup of tea." Xiao Kaifa put down the report, intending to read it carefully.

Deng Yong sat down calmly. This matter definitely needed to be discussed slowly. How could Xiao Kaifa agree to give him the money without saying a word? Moreover, the director of the research department would need to support him to get the money.

Two minutes later, Xiao Kaifa came out of the inner office: "Professor Deng, this is just my teacup. Please make do with a paper cup. I need to take another look at your report."

"Director Xiao, there's no rush!" Deng Yong said, glancing around before looking at the thick stack of documents in Xiao Kaifa's office, and pondering to himself.

"Director Xiao, you're quite busy, aren't you? It seems the hospital's progress targets are putting a lot of pressure on you," Deng Yong asked bluntly.

Seoul University, a long-established university, a 985/211 university, and one of the 'Top Ten Universities'.

However, one thing is certain: most university medical departments bring honor to their schools. But the medical department at Seoul National University, to some extent, drags the school down.

However, considering that the Medical School of Wuhan University was merged into it, its predecessor was Hubei Provincial Medical University.

But both Zhongnan Hospital and the Provincial People's Hospital are working hard on this, hoping to be among the best.

Currently, Hubei Provincial People's Hospital and Wuhan University Zhongnan Hospital rank only around 40th and 60th respectively in the national hospital comprehensive strength ranking!

However, the overall ranking of the Medical School of Han City University has reached a very high position, reaching 21.

Ten years ago, the overall strength of Han City University Medical School was only around the top 50. Therefore, to some extent, the two affiliated hospitals also dragged it down.

It's normal for a university to have strong and weak programs, but nobody wants to be the one that drags the university down.

Therefore, Zhongnan Hospital set itself a small goal: to strive to be among the top 50 by the 130th anniversary of its founding, and to strive to be among the top 45 by the 135th anniversary.

However, improving a hospital's overall capabilities requires a comprehensive approach that considers factors such as the number of research projects, publications, research capabilities, and clinical skills. It also depends on the number of national key specialties and disciplines.

The importance attached to scientific research was already evident when it was merged into Seoul University, and it was aligned with the overall research emphasis of the university. The Seoul University School of Medicine, in particular, received administrative staff from the university to help with management, and its emphasis on teaching and research was even greater.

Otherwise, it would have been absolutely impossible to advance twenty or thirty places within ten years and reach the top twenty or so.

The methods used were extremely extreme. Deng Yong, as a full professor, knew very well that the crazy bunch of people in the teaching affairs office of the Second Clinical College, which is the undergraduate school of Zhongnan Hospital, really went on a spree of ruthless tactics.

Even if undergraduate students are doing their internships, they don't have to come to your department for their internships. However, if you do come and there isn't a single teaching ward round or a single case discussion with undergraduate students every week, and if any students complain to the Academic Affairs Office of the Second Clinical College, then you will be held accountable.

If all associate professors and below in the department fail the teaching assessment, they will have to continue the following year. If they fail again, they will continue. If they never fail, they will never be promoted.

For associate professors and full professors, if someone is late for a large lecture class three or more times or fails to meet teaching requirements, whether or not they can be promoted to professor is not something the Second Clinical College needs to consider.

For undergraduate students, during their internship, if they are assigned to work in an outpatient clinic and their supervising teacher is different from the teacher they are observing, and they fail to report this in advance, their teaching evaluation will be deemed unsatisfactory.

In the first few years after this batch came out, many people suffered losses. They thought it was a joke, but after staying in the 'perennial chief physician' position for a long time, no one dared to think it was a joke.

(PS: The above is true. I don't know if it's still the same now. When I was an intern, that's what the academic affairs office told us. If we couldn't find a mentor during our internship, we should call the academic affairs office directly and they would handle it.)
(Furthermore, the Academic Affairs Office conducts regular and unscheduled inspections every workday, personally questioning your supervising teacher about who they are, what they are doing, and why you didn't go.)
Naturally, it's also difficult to improve the hospital's overall capabilities, because Zhongnan Hospital is already in a relatively weak position.

However, Seoul National University maintains its strong emphasis on its medical school, clinical college, and affiliated hospitals, allocating substantial annual research grants.

The reason is that Seoul University hopes that if the medical system develops and boosts the overall strength of the university, then Seoul University's current academic influence will rise again!
Under this mechanism, the hospital also hopes that all research teams within the hospital will take drastic measures.

Xiao Kaifa did not answer. Instead, after carefully reviewing the reports, he pondered for a while and said, "Professor Deng, I cannot give you a direct answer regarding your approval report."

"However, there are indeed policy preferences to support the research departments of hospitals and universities."

"Those who can apply for major research projects and publish major articles are valued for their quality output, not quantity."

"So I may need to submit this report to the research department and see what their opinion is. After all, as you know, most of our hospital's current funding is allocated to support young researchers."

"Director Xiao, I'm young too," Deng Yong joked.

"But thank you for your hard work, Director Xiao. What I mean is that our research group has accumulated no less than fifty papers in both groups. If we have enough funding, we will soon be able to break through to more than one hundred papers."

"I'm not just bragging. You can visit our lab and see for yourself. And here are the results I copied. They're not duplicates, and they weren't downloaded from the internet. They all have our own lab's unique watermark."

"Including the original consumables and the original experimental data, everything is recorded." Deng Yong didn't mention anything else about his lab. Xiao Kaifa nodded: "I knew it! Professor Deng, how could you be so confident? I thought..."

Xiao Kaifa didn't continue speaking, but he believed that Deng Yong had already understood what he meant.

As the director of the research department, Xiao Kaifa's main responsibility is to have a general understanding of all the research team leaders in the institute and to keep track of their research progress.

Resource allocation and reimbursement, accumulation of annual article publications, and promotion of the hospital's number of research grant applications and the number and proportion of general projects each year.

Among the current middle-aged and young generation in the hospital, there is a small team led by Hong Zili under Professor Deng Yong. Basically, if anyone else really wants to challenge Deng Yong, they would have to pry Hong Zili out first.

"Director Xiao, as the saying goes, it's better to rely on yourself than on others. Professor Hong and I have a cooperative relationship, not a superior-subordinate relationship. If Professor Hong is willing to give me face, we can be very good partners. But I'm getting on in years, and I can't put all my hopes on young people."

"We still need to keep striving."

"I hope that in the future, Director Xiao can pay more attention to and mentor our young people in orthopedics, including but not limited to our trauma surgery students," Deng Yong said in a formal and serious tone.

That's what he's going to do.

Open source, open source, and keep opening source.

It's not just about securing funding for research projects; it's also about finding suitable experimental sites and even collaborating with qualified medical and medical device companies at the hospital to create more opportunities and more work for the team members.

This is what Deng Yong is currently doing. Going further, Professor Deng Yong also needs to find other institutions to cooperate with, and carry out some large-scale clinical research in multiple centers and pilot projects to demonstrate the research capabilities and professional competence of the Department of Trauma Surgery at Zhongnan Hospital.

"Of course, Professor Deng. We value all the students in our hospital."

"Professor Deng, I'll have to ask someone to send this report over tomorrow. I look forward to Professor Deng and your team presenting their results as soon as possible."

"Keep a low profile and achieve great things quietly." Xiao Kaifa leaned back in his chair.

He was well aware of just how solid this amount of basic research work was; it was comparable to the annual output of the top team at Zhongnan Hospital.

Even the super-large teams in internal medicine can only produce this much work in a year, and their manpower is 1.5 to 2 times that of Professor Deng Yong's group.

Professor Deng Yong left calmly.

Xiao Kaifa opened the report again, compared the participants in the project with the participants he had archived last year, and finally circled these names.

Luo Tingzhu, Lan Tianluo, Jie Han, Yan Zhiming, Zhu Yunwen —

These people are all new to Professor Deng Yong's team and were not very familiar with each other before.

However, Xiao Kaifa still very carefully identified Fang Ziye, one of the people in the hospital's professional operation special plan this year.

Then he handed the names to someone in the research department: "Xiao Hu, can you help me check the number and quality of the articles these people uploaded to the OA system?"

"In addition, we should communicate with the graduate school and ask them to help inquire about the current situation of these students."

"To avoid accidentally hurting anything."

Xiao Kaifa said.

Upon hearing this, the man called Xiao Hu said, "Director Xiao, are you worried that some outstanding people might be overlooked?"

"It may not be covered in dust, it just increases the level of attention it receives."

"Those who are able to get into Han City University are all relatively good high-quality students. There are quite a few who were not interested in medicine at first and did nothing during their undergraduate studies, but they suddenly stood out during their master's studies."

"Pay close attention to them," Xiao Kaifa instructed before returning.

He called back one of the people who had come to see him that morning.

“Professor Jin, I’m Xiao Kaifa from the Research Department,” Xiao Kaifa said.

"Director Xiao, is there news so soon? That shouldn't be the case."

"Professor Jin, the suggestion you made this morning may still be inappropriate..."

After a moment of silence, the other person said, "Hong Zili from thoracic surgery, Professor Deng Yong from orthopedics?"

This seems to be the only reason he could think of.

"No, it's Professor Deng Yong's own team, they have enough work. It's not that I went to inspect anything, it's just that Professor Deng Yong just came to our research department and said he hopes to apply for some more research funding."

"This is the amount of work that can be directly reported to the school's research department."

"Above eighty?" Professor Jin asked, slightly surprised.

"More than a hundred. After all, he's a veteran professor, and his accumulated knowledge is still hard to estimate."

“The hospital now supports large projects and research topics, focusing on quality rather than quantity,” Xiao Kaifa replied.

"I understand, thank you, Director Xiao. I hope you won't tell Professor Deng about this, and can just pretend I was never in the research department. Thank you," Professor Jin replied, somewhat disappointed.

"It's alright, it's my duty. Professor Jin, keep up the good work. Our hospital is currently preparing to build several new laboratories. With your current workload, Professor Jin, you have a good chance of getting a small laboratory." Xiao Kaifa could only offer this empty promise with a sense of helplessness.

"I'll do my best, Director Xiao. It's really not a good feeling to have the lab's home outside."

"Director Xiao, I won't disturb your work any longer. I still have to lead the afternoon rounds. Thank you for your hard work." Professor Jin said and hung up the phone, but before he could hang up, he let out a long sigh.

Xiao Kaifa scratched his head, then looked at the approval form Deng Yong had brought him, put it in the most convenient spot in the right-hand drawer, and made a special note of it in the to-do list...

After leaving the research department, Deng Yong headed towards the laboratory building.

He reached his floor, exited the elevator, and instead of entering the laboratory, he stood there for a few minutes watching the group of children busily working inside. Then he pressed the button for the elevator to go downstairs, and his figure disappeared into the darkness. Although he wasn't traveling in the dark, he still seemed somewhat hurried.

Deng Yong walked in the darkness and soon got into his car. After driving onto the road beside Fruit Lake, he headed in the direction of the home of a leader from the Provincial Department of Science and Technology.

Anyone in the department can vent their emotions, but he is the only one who cannot.

Because his name is Deng Yong, in addition to being the former director of trauma surgery, he is currently the discipline leader handpicked by Director Du Xinzhan of orthopedics, and he was also appointed as the head of the surgical teaching and research group by Zhongnan Hospital, which has attached great importance to him.

Therefore, he has to keep moving forward step by step.

Regarding the update time, some readers have requested that the update time be split into two parts: one for continuing the current update time and the other for changing the update time to the morning. Reply 1 if you agree to continue the current update time, and reply 2 if you agree to change the update time.

I determined the result around noon based on the voting results.

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