top student at medical school

Chapter 34 Hello, New World (Please add to your favorites and read on!)

"Senior Brother Sun, are you saying that those doctoral student waiters are actually the kind of drinking companions?" Fang Ziye asked again when he inquired with Senior Brother Sun Shaoqing, who had been spending a lot of time in the training room, about the doctoral student service team that could go to the countryside to provide support.

"Yeah, this thing is useless, don't go there, it's just a waste of time."

“The time during the doctoral stage is so precious. It’s much more worthwhile to spend it in the lab or training room, doing some experiments, or steadily improving my operational skills.” Sun Shaoqing is still practicing incision techniques.

However, the materials for Dr. Sun Shaoqing's debridement practice were relatively high-end: pork.

Take a piece of pork at random, and the butcher cuts it haphazardly. If you can separate the cut pork into distinct layers, such as muscle, fat, skin, fascia, and tendons, you've mastered the skill.

Such training materials are very expensive. Only doctoral students or those who have practiced incision beyond the master's level can apply to the materials supply room of the skills training room for cheaper pork.

Otherwise, if you have to pay for several kilograms a day, at more than ten yuan per kilogram, it's all out of your own pocket, which most people can't afford.

Sun Shaoqing is currently in his third year of doctoral studies, and has reached the ceiling in terms of academic degree and academic qualifications.

my country's higher education is divided into three academic levels: junior college, bachelor's degree, and postgraduate.

A postgraduate degree is the highest level of education, but postgraduate students can be divided into master's students and doctoral students based on their degree. Doctoral students are the highest level of education in higher education.

There are many ways to pursue a doctorate. Some people pursue a doctorate after graduating with a master's degree, some pursue a direct doctorate after graduating with a bachelor's degree, and some pursue a combined bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree, such as Luo Tingzhu.

When a doctoral student is nearing graduation, they generally have two options: either enter a postdoctoral research station or look for a job directly.

Entering a postdoctoral research station is actually a way to prepare for job hunting and add some experience to your resume, such as publishing some articles and applying for some good research projects at the postdoctoral research station. This will make the hospital think you are capable and will make them want to keep you at the hospital.

However, it seems that although Sun Shaoqing's research output has exceeded the level required for doctoral graduation, it is still a bit short of the competition for a place in the institute.

In the entire orthopedics department, there are six third-year doctoral students in our hospital, but we are only hiring one!
There are also PhDs from other departments competing for jobs; the best candidates are selected based on the number and quality of their publications, as well as their operational skills.

Sun Shaoqing is under immense pressure and is trying to use the shortcut of leaving the training room to apply for hospitalization. Otherwise, there isn't enough time to surpass others through scientific research output.

"Oh, is that so? Senior Brother Sun, then I won't bother you any longer." Having gotten the answer he wanted, Fang Ziye decided not to disturb Senior Brother Sun Shaoqing, who was working hard.

Senior Brother Sun is under much, much more pressure now than he was a few months ago.

"Hmm! We can discuss and learn together again sometime." Sun Shaoqing glanced at Fang Ziye, looking slightly apologetic.

Fang Ziye quickly left.

Saturday is the weekend, a time when resident physicians are not on duty and can have more free time, since elective surgeries are not scheduled on weekends.

They can spend long periods of time in the practice room, or go to the laboratory to conduct experiments, or write articles and produce output at home.

Fang Ziye is not currently immersing himself in the training room, because continuing to do so would not be very meaningful for him, as it would not lead to much scientific research output.

So Fang Ziye went to the laboratory first, intending to take some time to learn about some basic experimental methodologies in preparation for conducting experiments during his doctoral studies.

In the laboratory.

Fang Ziye took the materials list from Junior Sister Luo Tingzhu and said, "Junior Sister Luo, thank you for your hard work. So, it means I only need to purchase these materials now, right?"

Fang Ziye was a newbie in the lab. Although he had read books and made some preparations, he still had little experience.

Although Luo Tingzhu didn't have much experience either, she had been in the lab for a month and knew a little more than a complete newbie like Fang Ziye, since she had already started culturing cells.

Fang Ziye is a professional master's student who had almost never been to the lab before. When he did come, it was only to help his professor move experimental equipment. Professional master's students have ward duties, shift duties, graduation pressure, and the pressure of writing papers. Where would they find the time to do experiments?

"It's okay, I'm still in the learning stage. My senior brother guided me in doing it before."

"You don't need to buy alcohol. The lab has 100% alcohol that can be prepared. What you mainly need to buy are fetal bovine serum, culture medium, and trypsin. Also, PBS buffer."

"I've marked the essentials for you," Luo Tingzhu explained to Fang Ziye in detail.

"Are you also conducting osteosarcoma cell experiments?" Luo Tingzhu asked after pointing it out.

Currently, the most popular basic research direction in orthopedics is osteosarcoma.

“No, what I need to do is work on giant cell tumor cells of bone,” Fang Ziye replied with a smile.

The research project the teacher applied for was not in the most popular area of ​​osteosarcoma.

Just yesterday, Yuan Weihong privately sent Fang Ziye the project proposal he had obtained from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The proposal contained the research direction of the project that Yuan Weihong had applied for.

In fact, many people don't understand what master's and doctoral students do.

They thought it was about doing high-level research, but it's not.

In the medical field, a typical professional master's student spends time in clinical practice, producing a variety of research papers, such as reviews, system analyses, meta-analyses, and bioinformatics analyses.

These types of articles are essentially the use of tools, involving the comprehensive analysis and summarization of existing materials. This allows the writer to become familiar with the relevant methods and data processing models of medical statistics, and is a demonstration of research ability.

Most academic graduate students are essentially "working" for their professors.

After the teacher secures funding for a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) or a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Fund project through meticulous analysis and preliminary basic research, the students then follow the research path designed by the teacher.

Simply put, it means teachers are venturing out and exploring new avenues to see how they might achieve breakthroughs.

Students, on the other hand, follow their teachers' conjectures to verify whether this direction is correct or not. This is what most academic graduate students do, and it is also basic research.

There is actually a premise here.

That is, if a student doesn't have a teacher's research grant, then he can't do anything; he has neither money nor direction.

Therefore, in many cases, graduate students are essentially working for their professors.

You're just a master's or doctoral student, and you want to make your own breakthrough. Without any preliminary research, you can't even afford the tools to culture cells. That's the reality of life!
This process is the process of mastering basic medical cell biology experiments.

……

Two days later, Fang Ziye finally had everything ready and began to revive the first batch of cells frozen by his teacher, opening the door to a new world for him.

Before everything was ready, the newbie Fang Ziye, while looking at his hands, which were already disinfected and gloved, and the cell manipulation table that had been disinfected by ultraviolet light, tilted his head and said, "Junior Sister Luo, please help me correct this."

In my heart, I silently say, "Hello, new world."

“I’m not very skilled either, let’s learn together. First, take the cells out of the liquid nitrogen and then quickly revive them in warm water…”

(End of this chapter)