top student at medical school

Chapter 31 Prepare Well (Please add to your favorites and read on)
October 7th is the last day of the National Day holiday, which should be a time for rest.

However, on this particular day, the eighth floor of the skills training room at the Medical School of Han City University was quite lively.

The original purpose of setting up the practice room was to facilitate learning and practice for students and junior doctors in our institute, not to provide shortcuts for people.

It usually takes one or two years for students and young doctors to pass through the training room, take a purely professional operation route, and be able to break through the corresponding requirements and "exit the training". Such a thing is naturally considered a rare occurrence in a large department.

It wasn't just Professor Deng Yong, the ward director of trauma surgery, who attached great importance to it; Professor Du Xinzhan, the head of orthopedics and the ward director of joint surgery, also took it very seriously.

Although the first training room is full of basic operations, the most basic skills in orthopedics, everyone started as a young person. All medical professors were medical students who worked their way up step by step.

The patience and tolerance shown by our predecessors towards the current professors is a legacy that needs to be inherited and carried forward.

There weren't many people. The ones most concerned about this matter were some junior master's students in trauma surgery, as well as doctoral students. Doctors such as Luo Tingzhu and Sun Shaoqing were also in the queue, observing and witnessing Fang Ziye's growth.

The senior staff of the trauma surgery department also came, while the orthopedics department only sent Professor Du Xinzhan and an associate professor in charge of teaching in orthopedics, who was also an associate professor of joint surgery...

In fact, for a surgical professional, being able to pursue a master's degree at a large teaching hospital like Zhongnan Hospital inherently signifies a high level of future career development. At the very least, one would become a doctor in a prefecture-level city hospital.

Therefore, whether they are superiors or students, they are all very perceptive.

"The key to hemostasis is speed, stability, and accuracy. Quick hemostasis is essential to accurately pinpoint the bleeding point when necessary, thus preventing the patient from dying from massive bleeding or developing other complications as quickly as possible."

"Therefore, what is needed is the speed of eye contact and the speed of precise execution."

“The surface area of ​​a sesame seed is not large, which is roughly equivalent to the common bleeding points in clinical practice. Your senior colleague was able to stop the bleeding of 37 bleeding points so precisely in a short period of time. Of the remaining three bleeding points, two were not stopped and one was missed.”

"This performance is very much in line with his personality; he'd rather have fewer but better results. He'd rather not do so many operations than compromise on the success rate of each one," Professor Deng Yong's doctoral student, Sun Shaoqing, said softly to his junior colleague.

"You can learn more from this."

Luo Tingzhu observed Fang Ziye's actions and asked in a low voice, "Senior Brother Sun, do you think Senior Brother Fang deliberately slowed down his speed, prioritizing stability over speed? Otherwise, I think his margin for error could be higher."

Fang Ziye is repeating this at this moment.

A successful operation on the first try could be a fluke, but if you can succeed repeatedly, then it's safe to assume you're right.

At the master's level, a professional master's student in trauma surgery can, while fulfilling the normal graduation requirements, master debridement, incision, hemostasis, and suturing to a certain degree. This requires not only hard work but also a certain amount of talent.

Therefore, hospitals and research institutes are willing to give such outstanding students an opportunity to pursue a doctorate, but this is a matter of great importance.

After all, hospitals have a limited number of doctoral student positions available, and they cannot be given out arbitrarily.

Fang Ziye needs to repeat this three times; this is his first time performing a hemostasis procedure. Before the hemostasis, Fang Ziye had already routinely completed three procedures of debridement, incision, and suturing, all of which were successful.

The head of orthopedic teaching recorded Fang Ziye's operation time as 60 seconds, while also recording the success rate of successfully and quickly inserting sesame seeds into the tofu: 37/40.
Then he took another piece of tofu, picked up a handful of sesame seeds—at least several dozen—and sprinkled them evenly and randomly on the surface of the tofu. After stepping back two steps, he said, "Ziye, come on, continue."

"If you can do it again, we can all cheer for you today."

When Fang Ziye's gaze calmed down, he happened to see his teacher Yuan Weihong standing diagonally opposite him, behind Professor Deng Yong. Yuan Weihong's shoulders were trembling slightly, clearly indicating that he was even more nervous than Fang Ziye.

Fang Ziye smiled slightly in that direction, took a deep breath, pressed the countdown timer with his left hand, and used tweezers as a hemostatic tool, like an electrocautery or ultrasonic scalpel, to quickly move them around.

In the practice room, the requirement for hemostasis is to quickly embed a sesame seed into tofu, but not too deeply, about 4mm or less, but less than 1mm into the tofu surface. Too shallow and it won't stop the bleeding; too deep and in clinical practice, such a technique would be unbearable for the patient.

Fang Ziye dared not make any unnecessary operations. It was already a test to move his hand quickly forty times in one minute. To do even more, he needed to operate with precision and control the force of each operation.

Not a single second can be wasted.

Yuan Weihong kept quietly following Fang Ziye's instructions, counting in hushed tones. Even though this disturbed the three professors and several associate professors around him, no one said that Yuan Weihong's trembling voice was inappropriate.

"thirty."

"thirty-one."

"Thirty-three."

Thirty-five.

"Thirty." At the thirty-sixth mark, Fang Ziye's operation went awry, and he missed the target. The bleeding failed to stop.

Thirty-six!

Yuan Weihong turned his head and looked at the countdown timer. There were still six seconds left on the timer.

In other words, Fang Ziye was also nervous, but he strived for accuracy, so he could have been more composed.

Fang Ziye met the target again, and Yuan Weihong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, the opportunity for me, a student whose advisor is not a doctoral supervisor but who has a certain number of SCI publications, to pursue further studies and obtain a doctorate has finally been recognized.

Yuan Weihong breathed a sigh of relief.

As for Fang Ziye, after completing thirty-six qualified hemostasis procedures, he deliberately slowed down for the remaining two sets, gently taking five seconds to firmly place the two sesame seeds before stopping.

Therefore, even if there were any errors or omissions in my previous statistics, adding these two points as a safety net would be sufficient.

Only by accumulating knowledge and experience can one achieve success with composure.

The third operation is no longer necessary.

Watching Associate Professor Tang write down the number 39/40 with great composure, Fang Ziye took a step back, wiped his forehead with the back of his right hand, which was damp with sweat.

Professor Du Xinzhan was not tall and slightly overweight. He had a refined and scholarly demeanor and a rather large bottom. He tilted his hips slightly and adjusted his upper body posture before reaching out to pat Fang Ziye on the shoulder: "Work hard to prepare."

"I hope that three years from now, we can talk in the office."

"Deng Yong, your department's students this year are quite good." Du Xinzhan turned to look at Deng Yong.

The implication is that they hope that three years from now, when Fang Ziye is about to graduate with his doctorate, everyone can still discuss salary and staying at the hospital, which can be considered a kind of expectation.

Fang Ziye smiled, watching the crowd disperse, and amidst the congratulations from his fellow disciples, he grinned foolishly like a dummy.

(End of this chapter)