top student at medical school

Chapter 135 Money-Making Strategies (Please Subscribe)

During medical school, there are very few ways to make money.

First, prescribe large amounts of medication to patients and then use the prescribed dosage to redeem prizes. Yuan Weihong had specifically warned Fang Ziye about this when he first started out. Fang Ziye was too lazy to compete with those drug agents. For a single painkiller, four, five, or even six or seven groups of people would come to him. Fang Ziye did it all based on his mood; he wouldn't add them as friends or accept money from them.

There's really no need to bring a foul odor onto yourself for such a small amount of money.

Secondly, it relied on publishing articles. After publishing articles, the hospital would give certain research rewards. Fang Ziye was thinking of rushing forward back then, but the articles he wrote were ultimately just English essays, so he had no chance in this area.

Without an article, the third point about extra scholarships, such as the National Scholarship, can only be described as a case of deep affection but shallow fate. Fang Ziye's feelings for the National Scholarship were exceptionally rich and abundant, but fate had not brought them together.

Fourth, Fang Ziye had considered representing the hospital in competitions and winning various prizes, but his abilities were among the worst in his cohort of master's students in trauma surgery.

Li Yuanpei and Xiong Jinhuan, aren't they both more outstanding than him? They hadn't even considered this, and Fang Ziye truly didn't want to embarrass himself in front of the entire hospital, let alone in provincial and national competitions.

The only thing Fang Ziye occasionally received was a small amount of labor fees from his mentor, Yuan Weihong, usually between one and two thousand yuan. It used to be once a year, but as graduation approached, Yuan Weihong became a little more generous. However, due to limited funding within the research group, it only happened once or twice.

The hospital provides a stipend of 1,400 yuan per month to professional master's students. After covering the rent, there is 300 yuan left. In addition, there is the allowance for two night shifts per month, so Fang Ziye has about 500 yuan to spend each month.

My family usually provides me with about a thousand yuan a month for living expenses.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Fang Ziye was genuinely envious and frightened when he saw that Luo Tingzhu had actually saved a lot of money...

It wasn't until nearly 2 a.m. that Fang Ziye checked his WeChat interface. He had already cleared all the messages and had roughly made plans for tomorrow. Then he fell into deep thought.

This is a habit Fang Ziye has before going to sleep every day, but today the process was a little longer.

Because the past is the past.

Even with his current publications—an 8-point paper on basic cell experiments, plus his doctoral recruitment through a special program during his master's studies—it wouldn't be unreasonable for Fang Ziye to ask for an award for outstanding graduate student.

Although there is no bonus, it can be a plus when looking for a job. In addition, Fang Ziye's master's thesis has a lot of work involved, after all, it's more than ten pieces of work. Getting an excellent thesis should be no problem.

With these two points, Fang Ziye is likely to receive the national scholarship during his first year of doctoral studies. The national scholarship is worth 3 yuan, which means Fang Ziye will have 2.5 yuan to spend each month on average.

In addition, the starting allowance during doctoral studies is 10,000 yuan per year, and the department and hospital also provide certain subsidies, so the annual income is about 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. If the national scholarship is included, it is 70,000 to 80,000 yuan.

This income is already comparable to the annual take-home pay of some township government employees.

However, there are many other things that can be obtained, such as academic innovation awards, labor subsidies from the research group, and various rewards for publishing papers. Fang Ziye even felt that he could potentially earn more than 100,000 yuan a year during his doctoral studies.

"When this time comes, I won't have to ask my family for money anymore, and I can even buy some gifts for my parents." Fang Ziye carefully considered the matter, feeling particularly at ease.

Moreover, these awards and income have always existed; they just had nothing to do with Fang Ziye before.

But next year, especially with his own small team, once the article is published, along with the article from Professor Deng Yong's group, Fang Ziye will definitely have to be listed as at least a co-first author. As for the paper prize money, Fang Ziye feels that if his two mentors are generous enough, giving him forty or fifty thousand yuan for two papers would not be excessive.

Even a top-tier scholar like Associate Professor Hong Zili doesn't produce many articles with an impact factor of just over 20. Professor Deng Yong's team, however, spent a long time working on it before finally producing their only paper. Professor Deng Yong himself felt that such a large amount of work was extremely rare.

The future looks promising.

……

After Luo Tingzhu landed safely, she saw her senior sister.

After getting the SIM card, she replied to Fang Ziye that she had landed and was preparing to adjust to the time difference, and also sent him a photo.

Fang Ziye was still conducting experiments and didn't reply immediately. By the time Fang Ziye saw the reply, Luo Tingzhu would probably already be jet-lagged.

Fang Ziye didn't send any more messages.

There is a nearly twelve-hour time difference between the United States and China. Noon here is midnight there, and midnight here is noon there.

This timeline is an objective reality and will not be altered by willpower. The right thing to do is to continue accumulating work and collect all the data as soon as possible.

Dr. Li Yuanhong of Enshi People's Hospital had already added Fang Ziye as a friend, but Fang Ziye was always busy and had no time to invite him to dinner.

However, around March 10th, Fang Ziye finally completed the preliminary procedures for the last set of animal experiments. All that remained was to take X-rays, kill the rats, and wait to observe the experimental results.

Fang Ziye finished his experiment at four o'clock in the afternoon. He took a picture to commemorate his more than one month of immersion in the laboratory and operating table, and then walked out of the animal experiment center, which had cost at least several hundred thousand yuan, with a relaxed feeling...

I felt inexplicably relaxed.

It's like the mentality of a farmer who has finally finished spring planting and is just waiting for the harvest!
"Master, I've completed all the animal experiments our group is currently working on. Now we're just waiting for the results." Fang Ziye sent Yuan Weihong the 'graduation' message.

Today is Wednesday, so Yuan Weihong is probably at the outpatient clinic.

"You've worked hard. Let's have dinner together tonight to celebrate your success."

“Undergraduate teaching has already started during this period, and your mentor is really too busy to get away. You also have to go to the lab to teach your two junior students. It is indeed very tiring.”

"It's good that it's finished. You can relax and rest for a while. Wait until the end of this month, then go to the countryside to rest." Yuan Weihong still cared about Fang Ziye and replied with three messages in a row.

I also felt a little sorry for him.

Currently, his research group only has Fang Ziye as a pioneer. Jie Han and Lan Tianluo are two years younger than Fang Ziye and cannot be replaced at any time. They are still in the foundational stage, which is just the way things are.

Yuan Weihong's vulnerability stems not only from being a teacher, but also from having very few people in his group.

Yuan Weihong is now preparing for the associate professorship and the full professorship. In addition, he is also working hard to obtain the qualification of doctoral supervisor. He hopes that when he graduates from the third year of his master’s program at Jiehan University, he can fight his way out from the crowd of doctoral supervisors and prevent Fang Ziye from encountering the same predicament as last year.

Yuan Weihong also cannot rest.

"Master, are there many patients at the outpatient clinic today?" Fang Ziye quickly left the laboratory, walked along the curb for a while, and then hailed a taxi.

Having completed a phase of the task, it's time to have a good talk with the teacher about the follow-up plans, such as finding out what kind of research projects Yuan Weihong will apply for next.

"It's alright. Tianluo is slowly growing up now, and he can learn from you and watch one or two shows."

"Very good." Yuan Weihong gave Lan Tianlu a positive impression of Fang Ziye.

Fang Ziye then asked, "Master, I think I passed Tianluo's interview. I really didn't have time to leave the lab for the past two days. Two of the mice in the previous batch almost died, so I didn't dare to go out much."

Actually, as a senior student, I should have shared some experience with Lan Tianluo before his master's entrance exam, but the problem was indeed with the mice. One or two of them died, which was heartbreaking, costing tens of thousands of yuan.

"What else can we do but let him fail? The university's graduate school even called our Zhongnan Hospital's graduate department. We orthopedics people, how could we let him slip away?"

"Moreover, Tianluo is also exceptionally talented, so there shouldn't be any unexpected issues."

"Xiao Fang, it's been a while since you've been to the training room, hasn't it? Your two junior brothers are making pretty good progress. Tian Luo can cut clay fast now. Jie Han is working on re-suturing techniques, and he's currently at a decent level when it comes to sewing orange peels. He should be able to do that in a few months." Yuan Weihong's tone was full of satisfaction.

Fang Ziye was stunned upon hearing this.

Yes, my two junior colleagues have been working in the hospital for more than half a year now, and their basic skills are almost at level 2.

This is not impossible. Shu Lang, a second-year master's student, was able to suture orange peel before August of last year. At that time, his suturing skills were much more proficient than Fang Ziye's.

Jie Han's talent is no less than Shu Lang's. Based on their progress, they will probably reach the stage of sewing orange peels and cutting clay one or two months earlier than Shu Lang.

The practice levels of cutting techniques: tofu, clay, sculpting an octahedral pyramid from tofu—that's all that needs to be completed during the master's stage.

Practice levels for suturing: rubber skin, orange peel, tofu.

"Congratulations to my two junior brothers! I haven't been in touch with them for quite a while; I'm a terrible senior brother," Fang Ziye said in a flattering tone.

"Nonsense!" Yuan Weihong was the first to disagree.

"Senior brother, Master is smiling so much..." Lan Tianlu deliberately lengthened his words, giving Fang Ziye a hint.

With all the operations in the lab completed, it was indeed something to celebrate, so Yuan Weihong didn't hold back and had Fang Ziye take Jie Han and Lan Tianluo to a restaurant. Around six o'clock, Yuan Weihong arrived with his teacher's wife and Xiao Qi.

Little Qi just came in and asked, "Where is the awesome older brother?"

“There,” the teacher’s wife pointed to Fang Ziye.

"No, he's a handsome older brother." Little Qi shook her head, serious yet playful and adorable.

Xiao Qi then turned her head and glanced at Lan Tianluo: "I think he's the more impressive older brother..."

Yuan Weihong had no idea that his daughter had labeled several students.

Then he pointed to Jie Han and asked, "And what about him?"

"Why brother? What kind of brother is he? Big-faced brother?" Little Qi's words immediately caused the atmosphere to explode.

Even Lan Tianluo laughed.

Unfortunately, Jie Han is quite thin, but his face looks very large, mainly because his cheekbones are too wide. There's nothing that can be done about it except for cosmetic surgery.

Jie Han was a little angry, but he couldn't lash out at Xiao Qi, so he coaxed her in a low voice, "Xiao Qi, you can call me Brother Jie Han, not Big Face Brother."

"But your face really is huge!" Xiao Qi looked around the private room and was very certain of her impression.

Jie Han was almost in tears and turned away.

Then we started ordering, letting Xiaoqi order first.

However, after settling down, Yuan Weihong looked at Fang Ziye and asked, "Ziye, you borrowed five hundred yuan from Wang Yuanqi a couple of days ago. What are you going to do with it? Are you short of money?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Ziye appeared slightly nervous.

Somewhat bewildered, she said, "Master, why did you report something like this to Senior Brother Yuanqi? I explained it to him, and the hospital subsidy will be returned to him once it's issued."

"Rent needs to be paid, every three months..."

Fang Ziye was speechless. Five hundred yuan wasn't much to begin with, and Wang Yuanqi really was Yuan Weihong's mole.

Upon hearing this, Lan Tianluo said, "Senior brother, you can come to me. I'm good at keeping secrets."

Lan Tianluo's residency program is a social program, and his monthly stipend is even higher than that of PhDs like Wang Yuanqi. He belongs to the very top tier of the wealthy and powerful.

Naturally, he will soon be leaving the program and will probably become poor like everyone else.

Fang Ziye said, "Tianluo, you'd better save some of your money, because you definitely won't have enough later."

Yuan Weihong then looked at Fang Ziye, his eyes deep, and asked, "Didn't you just send out a payment for services? Jie Han's has already arrived, but yours hasn't?"

Yuan Weihong couldn't pay Lan Tianluo a service fee because they weren't master and apprentice, but he paid Jie Han the same amount, since Jie Han had also worked very hard.

Of course, what Yuan Weihong meant was that you shouldn't have not enough money.

Professor Deng Yong also gave you a sum of money.

Fang Ziye then said, "Master, we've arrived. Thank you, Master."

"It's not like you're borrowing a lot of money, why are you nagging like this?" the teacher's wife interjected. She was quite perceptive and sensitive, so she vaguely guessed what was going on.

Do you think all men are like you, straight and unyielding?

Xiaoqi had a physical education class in the evening, so after her teacher's wife took her to eat, they went to rest first. Otherwise, going to physical education class right after eating would be a bit bad for her health.

The teacher's wife, being kind and gentle, returned the time to Yuan Weihong and his disciples.

As soon as his teacher's wife left, Yuan Weihong tapped the table and said, "Ziye, Jiehan, Tianluo, you all have them."

"I still want to reiterate: don't take risks, don't take risks. Don't ruin yourself for petty gains."

“What I mean is that you all understand, but what Master told you before was all about the hospital.”

"Now, you are about to face a critical period. Your master is not someone who has just coasted along; he has seen many different types of people in the industry."

"I can tell you definitively that the current market price for an article is 5,000 for a municipal journal, 8,000 for a provincial journal, and 10,000 to 15,000 for a CSCD journal."

“SCI scores range from 2 to 5.”

"But don't think this amount of money is a lot. Once it's discovered, you'll have a stain on your record, and it will be very difficult for you to recover, understand?"

"So we still need to stick to the right path. Our group doesn't need to take shortcuts right now. You understand?"

"This isn't just empty promises from your master," Yuan Weihong said, his confidence rising considerably.

With this major paper published, if Yuan Weihong can apply for a research grant, the hospital and the university will give him a large sum of money as a separate reward, from which he can contribute a portion.

If he gets lucky again and gets the Young Thousand Talents Program award, then Yuan Weihong will be awesome.

Not to mention that he no longer needs to make way for others when he gets promoted, all the agreements he made with others before will have to be nullified, and Yuan Weihong's promotion speed may even be accelerated by exception.

This is an absolute status in the martial arts world.

It's even possible that the personnel department will have to renegotiate the salary and contract details with Yuan Weihong.

“Master, you’ve even made empty promises,” Fang Ziye added sarcastically.

"Go away, I was just saying what I meant. You're all smart people, you should understand immediately." Yuan Weihong looked in Fang Ziye's direction first.

Among his students, Fang Ziye's family was the worst off. If things really got tough, he would probably be the one most likely to take a risky path.

"Master, don't worry, we have a plan."

"I went to have dinner with Dr. Li Yuanhong mainly to learn about the personnel structure of Enshi Central Hospital in advance. Master, didn't you also tell me that it would be best to find out about it beforehand?" Fang Ziye replied seriously.

A teacher is one who imparts knowledge, teaches skills, and resolves doubts, through both words and deeds.

Yuan Weihong would go to great lengths for them, considering all aspects.

It may not be entirely comprehensive, but these factors should still be taken into account.

"Ok!"

"Jie Han, Lan Tianluo, you're going to have a tough time for a while."

"Your seniors have already laid the groundwork for you on the most difficult steps. If you all want to win national scholarships and academic paper awards during your graduate studies, you will have to make the necessary sacrifices."

"You know, the national award is 20,000 yuan, and the special prize for academic papers is 80,000 yuan. I'm so envious!" Yuan Weihong said, leaning back.

Looking at Fang Ziye and the other two, he felt very gratified.

This is the benefit of having a wealth of talent. When tasks are assigned, someone will step up and everyone can move forward together without anyone falling behind. This is what a mature team looks like. Although it is only in its early stages, Yuan Weihong feels that he already possesses the most valuable underlying resources.

The Graduate Academic Paper Innovation Award does not differentiate between doctoral and master's students, but if even one person in the team can win it, no teacher would dare to participate in sharing the 80,000 yuan prize. Even if it is divided equally among the three people, it is still a very, very considerable sum.

An article with an impact factor of over 20 is definitely enough to compete for the top prize.

(End of this chapter)