top student at medical school

Chapter 38 Scholarship and Dreams (Please add to your favorites and read on!)
After the meal, Yuan Weihong, who had drunk a little wine, led two students back home.

After Yuan Weihong treated them to dinner, the anesthesiologists and circulating nurses naturally thanked him and went home, not wanting to tactlessly disturb Yuan Weihong as he took his students for a walk.

"By the way, do you two think that medical students right now are going through a really confusing period?"

"As for writing articles, it doesn't really promote clinical diagnosis and treatment techniques."

"If you say you don't want to write articles, then others are. When it comes to job hunting, the treatment of PhDs with published articles is vastly different from that of PhDs without published articles?" Yuan Weihong tilted his head and asked.

Yuan Weihong also deliberately chose this time point, as Fang Ziye's graduation thesis only needed minor revisions to prepare for his master's thesis defense, and he had already secured his qualification to pursue a doctoral degree, thus easing the pressure.

Jie Han is currently only a first-year master's student. With his expertise and basic skills in writing articles, he doesn't need to worry about graduating or pursuing a doctorate. For a highly productive graduate student like Jie Han, even if he can't stay in clinical practice in the future, Zhongnan Hospital will consider setting up a special laboratory for someone as proficient in scientific research as Jie Han.

Fang Ziye, as the senior disciple, spoke first: "Master, it would be hypocritical to say there is none at all."

"But it's not fair to say that this situation is completely unreasonable. After all, our country's medical technology is still in its early stages. Not to mention that many surgical instruments used in clinical practice are from abroad."

"Many of the reagents and materials in the laboratory must be imported. If we don't do research, this situation will never change."

Take PBS buffer, for example. Its translated name is phosphate buffer, but why is it called PBS?
This is similar to how the Tao Te Ching, even when translated into English, is still called the Tao Te Ching.

It will etch a unique sense of pride into the very bones of a nation.

Yuan Weihong said, "That's roughly the idea, because every teaching hospital dreams of becoming an academic leader, and every teaching department dreams of becoming number one."

"Whether it's the best in the city, the best in the province, or the best in the country..."

"If you don't create original content, you'll always be following in other people's footsteps. The medical field in China is currently experiencing explosive growth."

"Our country is no longer lacking in core technical personnel. In some surgeries, in terms of pure operation, many professors in our country are no worse than professors abroad. However, the quality of medical care abroad is better developed than ours."

"This relies on scientific research. We need to advance it and stay at the forefront."

"It's like doing academic research. If we have a stroke of luck and manage to come up with something, then we'll be amazing. That's the kind of expectation our team has."

"The same applies to teaching hospitals. If a particular talent or team in a department suddenly becomes exceptionally talented and produces something groundbreaking, then that department will flourish, and the hospital will also benefit from it."

"Therefore, under such circumstances, we must transform Chinese operation into Chinese creation. Just like Chinese manufacturing becomes Chinese creation."

"So don't complain about the overall environment. You know?" Yuan Weihong explained to the two students.

People need dreams, teams need dreams, hospitals need dreams, universities need dreams, and so does the nation.

If China always follows a purely technological approach, making the most of all existing treatments for diseases, but fails to keep up academically and in scientific research, by the time you catch up with current surgical techniques, new technologies and drugs may have already emerged...

But these things were far removed from Fang Ziye's life, and even further from Jie Han's. At that moment, Jie Han opened two mineral water bottles and handed them to his teacher and senior brother.

After Fang Ziye accepted it, he first said thank you, and then looked at Yuan Weihong and said, "Master, so we should do something different, something different, something different, as long as we can do it."

"At least first, master the methods to prove that you can go faster than others, is that what you mean?"

Scientific research is not something lofty or glamorous; it's very down-to-earth. However, scientific research can also be extremely brutal.

Let alone one in ten thousand, even an entire era, all the research done by everyone is just empty bubbles, with no real progress whatsoever.

Whether it's a doctoral degree or a master's degree, can the articles they write really drive dramatic changes in academia?

impossible!
Those channels we've created are impossible!
The reason for doing this, to do something new that no one else has done, is to supplement what the academic community is currently unaware of and unable to do. In the process of supplementing, one can also learn methodologies and tools that, in case one gets lucky, can prove that one's breakthrough is very meaningful.

Otherwise, even if you come up with something amazing, if you can't prove it or communicate with the world, then what a load of nonsense.
In the laboratory, the basic methods of cell treatment and the interpretation of results are written down, serving as a form of dialogue. Academic articles, on the other hand, are tools for communicating with the world, a window, and a mobile phone that allows one to send messages to others.

To send a message, you first need to be able to read, and then you need to know how to use a mobile phone.

"Yes, so as you can see, many people in the lab are working in this confused state. Doing as much as you can prove that you have mastered these methods and done something that no one in the world has ever done before. That is your contribution to academia."

"Both proving the truth and falsifying the truth are contributions. They can prevent others from taking detours and allow other researchers to skip this step and take the direct route."

“If you keep walking forward like this, you might just open a door. Step by step, if you really immerse yourself in it, it’s actually a very enjoyable process, not boring at all…” Yuan Weihong lit a cigarette, took a puff after speaking, and felt relaxed.

Looking at Fang Ziye and Jie Han, it was as if she were a mother hen leading two chicks, running ahead of them. The two chicks, ignorant but full of curiosity about the world, ran behind, not yet very steady on their feet, stumbling a bit, but growing nonetheless.

This is a process that I couldn't have experienced before becoming a teacher.

The world is vast, and I have just opened a window, so I must lead them to the path that opened the window, so that the two of them can see the world.

This is the significance of a teacher.

Jie Han then asked, "Master, will I have the opportunity to pursue a doctorate in the future? Although our class has expanded its enrollment, the competition is fierce. If our department only has six doctoral spots by then, it will be N to one."

"You?"

"It depends on how capable your senior is. If you and your senior can work together to develop a few more basic research directions, then it won't be a matter of whether you want to pursue a PhD at Zhongnan Hospital anymore." Yuan Weihong rolled his eyes.

You just want to be praised, right? Praise me, it doesn't cost any money.

(End of this chapter)