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Because of the addition of trainees who are part of the doctoral application assessment system, even Sun Shaoqing, a third-year doctoral student, had to give them a chance in order to see their abilities and strengths in a comprehensive way.

The shadowing assessment lasted only three days. The three students in the group who were to be assessed were accompanied by Xie Jinyuan, Yuan Weihong and Qin Geluo, who followed them throughout the assessment to observe their operational skills and abilities.

And personally rate them.

Therefore, during these three days, Fang Ziye did not think at all about having any opportunities to practice in the clinic.

However, during the on-the-job assessment period, the instructors may take the on-the-job assessment participants to the practice room at any time to observe their skill level. Therefore, the practice room will also need to be made available for these few days.

Under these circumstances, the only things that Fang Ziye, Jie Han, and Lan Tianluo could do were conduct experiments, write articles, and write bioinformatics analyses.

Fang Ziye can only continue to push forward with the experiments. However, the basic cell experiments that Fang Ziye is currently conducting are part of the basic cell experiments that Yuan Weihong will need to do if he obtains a general research grant.

We'll get it done first. Anyway, there's still a little bit of money left in Yuan Weihong's previous youth research grant. After completing the last quantitative analysis of lactate, we can't touch any of the remaining money. Otherwise, the animal experiment part of the research project on the link between HK2 and giant cell tumor of bone that Yuan Weihong applied for won't be able to be completed.

Any extra money will be squeezed out by Fang Ziye. If they want to further improve miRNA or the connection between hnRNA and miRNA, they can only wait for the money to come in.

Jie Han's two most important tasks were writing proposals and articles for school-level research projects, as well as revising the bioinformatics analysis articles sent to him by Lan Tianluo.

Lan Tianluo seems to have been acting strangely lately. Instead of focusing on studying for the upcoming national unified entrance examination for master's students, he produced another paper on bioinformatics analysis data, which Jie Han couldn't finish writing.

After seeing the relevant data, Fang Ziye called Lan Tianluo: "Tianluo, your written exam is only a little over ten days away, aren't you?"

"You can't put the cart before the horse."

In fact, Lan Tianluo is a free man, and he should be responsible for his own choices. However, Fang Ziye has feelings for Lan Tianluo, his sensible younger brother who has been with him since he entered the department, so he gave him some advice.

December 11th is the assessment date for the doctoral application assessment system, but December 25th and 26th are the dates for the national unified postgraduate entrance examination, so we still can't be careless.

Lan Tianlu sent over his self-test paper.

The score for politics wasn't calculated, but the total score came to 310!

English 75, Western Medicine Comprehensive 235.
What does this score represent? If there were no separate cutoff scores for individual sections, a score of 310 would be enough to get you into the interview stage for the master's entrance exam at most 211 universities and even some 985 universities. That's ridiculously high.

Of course, it's not comparable to some geniuses who can score 400 points on the postgraduate entrance exam.

However, if his political science score is just above 370, then he would be highly sought after by most research groups at Zhongnan Hospital.

Fang Ziye scored 365 on the written exam to get into Zhongnan Hospital for his master's degree.
This score isn't high, but it's definitely not low either.

Fang Ziye finished reading: "..."

"Senior Brother Fang, thank you for the reminder. But given your teachings, I'm quite confident. If nothing unexpected happens, I should be fine. I remember the lowest score for this year's master's students entering our orthopedics department was 332." Lan Tianluo analyzed carefully.

"Okay, as long as you have your own plan and arrangements, that's fine. I just think we can postpone writing the article and focus on passing the written test first," Fang Ziye replied, then stopped arguing.

As the saying goes, another example of being rich and willful is being generous and willful.

Generally speaking, even at the most prestigious universities, if your initial test score is high enough, only one or two universities will reject you; other universities don't have the guts to do so.

However, after replying to Lan Tianluo, Fang Ziye sent a tender document to Yuan Weihong.

He added, “Master, I checked and there’s a municipal-level research grant available in Han City this year. I don’t think you mentioned it. Although it’s not a lot of money, I think we can try to get it. It would be a good thing if we could get around 100,000 yuan in research grants.”

"what do you think?"

Since graduating with his doctorate, Yuan Weihong has never considered applying for municipal-level research grants or bidding for projects. The level of funding is too low and it wouldn't be of any use to him.

Because Yuan Weihong only needs a sufficient number of general projects and higher-level research grants to benefit him, he didn't think about this aspect. However, Fang Ziye did, so he prepared all the preliminary work.

Essentially, Yuan Weihong only needs to take the tender documents and submit them to try it out, without wasting any time or anything.

Furthermore, there is no conflict between obtaining municipal-level and provincial-level research projects. Having municipal-level projects will not prevent you from obtaining provincial-level projects, nor will having provincial-level projects prevent you from obtaining general research projects.

Yuan Weihong is currently in the operating room teaching and mining at the same time, so naturally he can't reply to Fang Ziye.

Fang Ziye had already tidied up his desk and hurried to the laboratory.

As I said before, if you don't have enough money in your own special fund, then borrow from your seniors, from Luo Tingzhu. If you can help out, you'll learn something from the results. Why not?
Actually, Associate Professor Hong Zili has a lot of research grants and a large number of academic master's and doctoral students.

But as I said before, the relationship between Professor Deng Yong and Associate Professor Hong Zili is their relationship, and the relationship between students is still the relationship between students. If others don't pay attention to you, you shouldn't be too shameless as to try to take advantage of them.

Over three consecutive days, Fang Ziye managed to obtain a total of nine experimental results.

My knowledge points suddenly surged to 123. If nothing unexpected happens, with 123 knowledge points, I can easily add points to the hemostasis skill required for the doctoral stage.

In the brightly lit laboratory, Luo Tingzhu, after completing the lactate test results for three osteosarcoma cell lines after LDH knockout, felt a little excited and turned to ask, "Senior Brother Fang, does this mean that, like you, some results are available before the research project even begins?"

"No, I didn't do that." Fang Ziye sniffed seriously, then looked at the stained petri dish a few more times. After no more knowledge points came to him, he turned to look at Luo Tingzhu.

What I mean is, let's not talk about such sensitive topics, young lady.

Luo Tingzhu quickly nodded and changed her words: "Such a preliminary experiment?"

"That's about right." Fang Ziye nodded as well.

That's more like it. Although they are different terms of address, they express the same meaning, but one is in accordance with the rules and the other is not. We should be careful with our words.

To be honest, only Jie Han, Yuan Weihong, and Luo Tingzhu, who is doing experiments with Fang Ziye, know what Fang Ziye is doing right now. The other senior brothers only know that Fang Ziye's experiments are progressing very quickly, but how would they know what Fang Ziye is actually doing?

They weren't there to supervise the whole process, and even if they were, they hadn't seen Yuan Weihong's bid documents, nor did they know what level Yuan Weihong had reached in his bid to be considered a successful project completion.

"Senior, thank you for helping me revise my grant proposal. My university-level research project has been approved. It should be worth 50,000 yuan." Luo Tingzhu, seeing that no one was around, began to share the good news with Fang Ziye.

Luo Tingzhu is a PhD. PhD students can get several times more funding for university-level research projects than master's students can get, which is about 20,000 yuan.

As Fang Ziye removed his blue gloves, he smiled knowingly and said, "Congratulations, you've finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel."

To be honest, Luo Tingzhu has had a really tough time. When she first joined the research group, she had nothing. She had to find a way to get cell lines herself and borrowed reagents. Now she finally has her own research notebook and money, and can do experiments and buy equipment and reagents with peace of mind.

There's no need to try to get more funding anymore. In the early stages, Professor Deng Yong only allocated a pitiful six thousand yuan to Luo Tingzhu as start-up funding for her research.

Luo Tingzhu's upper and lower eyelids are not very large, but her pupils are very round and large, like two black beads adorning her eye sockets. Her eyebrows are not very thick, forming a somewhat beautiful arc, but she occasionally draws a few small strokes with eyebrow line, without going beyond the brow line. Even without drawing, she is actually quite pretty.

Upon entering the lab, she wore a light blue disposable surgical mask. Apart from her eyes and eyebrows, only her bangs were visible, fluttering on either side. Her hair was tied up and then covered by a blue disposable cap, leaving no room for her to display her gentle demeanor.

Luo Tingzhu's voice was still soft and gentle yet generous, with a delicate tone but without any affectation: "Senior brother, we only have initial start-up capital, enough to do a little experiment. If we want to publish basic article-type articles in Zone 1, we still need to work hard to earn more money."

Luo Tingzhu's hands were slender. When she clenched her fist in a gesture of encouragement, the standard size 7.5 blue gloves provided in the lab made her hands look like they were wearing oversized socks, with each finger unable to reach the top. "You can get a few more size 6 gloves from the operating room; no one will say anything. The operating room is well-funded," Fang Ziye said, observing Luo Tingzhu's cunning and teaching her how to take advantage of the situation.

"No, the circulating surgeons in the operating room have already advised me not to go too far. I can only take five more pairs a month at most, any more than that would be inappropriate."

"The first piece of equipment I need to buy is size 6 gloves." Luo Tingzhu also felt that the gloves were not comfortable to wear, but there was no other way.

In trauma surgery, there are no female PhD students. The other female students are from other subspecialties in other laboratories, and they are not in the same laboratory building.

For high-frequency consumables like gloves, if you don't order directly from the company, even if you only buy a few, they won't pay attention to you or sell them to you. So, I've always had to make do with what I have.

"Yes, we can buy more."

"When will your grant arrive?" Fang Ziye asked, turning back as he took off his gloves, intending to leave the lab.

Luo Tingzhu needs to continue processing the data. The lactic acid standard curve has been prepared. Luo Tingzhu only needs to compare the absorbance with the standard curve to obtain the sample values.

Fang Ziye doesn't need to participate in this small step; he only needs to get a general idea and doesn't need to go into too much detail to gain knowledge points.

"I don't know either. As long as I can get it, there's no rush."

"Is there any information about Jiehan's bid?" Luo Tingzhu asked with concern.

"I don't know. If you have any connections, could you help me find out?" Fang Ziye genuinely didn't know. Yuan Weihong might have asked, but Fang Ziye didn't have such connections at the moment.

Luo Tingzhu thought for a moment and said, "That won't work. A teacher happened to review my proposal and secretly told me about it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known."

In fact, the review process for determining whether a school-level research project proposal is successful should be double-blind, with the applicant unaware of the reviewer's information and the reviewer not tipping off the applicant.

However, this depends on connections, but Fang Ziye didn't expect that Luo Tingzhu would have connections.

……

After leaving the laboratory, Fang Ziye encountered his senior, Yan Zhiming.

Before Fang Ziye could even call Yan Zhiming, Yan Zhiming exclaimed, "Hey, Ziye, come over here right now! The assistant assessment is over, and they're probably going to decide on the final spots!"

"Although the notification was sent out late, the rankings usually come out immediately."

"My master told me that if I see you, I should send you directly to the department." Yan Zhiming came over very enthusiastically, patted Fang Ziye on the shoulder, and congratulated him.

Fang Ziye was clear about this process.

Actually, who gets recruited and who doesn't can be determined on the spot. It's just that teachers usually won't contact you in advance; you can only wait for the announcement.

However, those who are familiar with the students, such as Fang Ziye, a master's student from the same department, have the advantage of being close to the source and can see who their classmates are on the first day.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Yan. I'll head back to my office now." Fang Ziye rubbed his hands together.

"okay."

Yan Zhiming nodded first, and then followed Fang Ziye as he took off his white coat from the lab, washed his hands, and put his gloves and cap into the medical waste bin before leaving.

"Junior Brother Fang, next time I'm writing a bid, could you let me take a look at it too?" Yan Zhiming said in a low voice.

Fang Ziye was taken aback for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, senior brother."

"Thank you for your hard work!" Yan Zhiming clasped his hands in a slight gesture of respect.

To put it simply, in hospitals, another way of reflecting one's research standing is whether or not you can get funding. Money talks; without it, you're nothing.

Whether it's a school-level project, a city-level project, or a provincial-level project, as long as you can get funding, it's a symbol of strength.

If you can get a general research project or even a major project like the 863/975 program, then you're the ultimate boss, and everyone will have to make way for you.

The importance of securing funding and research projects is self-evident.

It's estimated that Yan Zhiming's bid for the school-level project has slipped to an unknown level, and Yan Zhiming also knows that Luo Tingzhu has already won the project, so he thought of asking Fang Ziye for help.

Fang Ziye didn't stand on ceremony, smiled, and walked into the elevator. Yan Zhiming didn't bother him any further.

When Fang Ziye arrived at the department, a junior colleague on duty told him to hurry to the demonstration room. After the on-the-job assessment, there would be a group meeting where Professor Du Xinzhan, representing the orthopedics doctoral re-examination team, would announce something.

When Fang Ziye arrived, about 80-90% of the people inside had already arrived, except for a few who rushed over from their resting place.

At this moment, Fang Ziye discovered that there were a total of forty-eight candidates in the demonstration room.

Upon seeing this, Fang Ziye felt a chill. It seemed that the other two older brothers who had gone through the Onion Research Program had already succeeded and were admitted through special admission.

After everyone had settled in, Professor Du Xinzhan and Associate Professor Tang Yi walked in.

Tang Yi then announced: "After four days of interviews, on-the-job assessments, and practical exams, our doctoral application assessment program for this year has come to an end. We will carefully compile the scores of each candidate and then report them to the hospital for public announcement."

"The public announcement period is half a month. During the public announcement period, if you are not satisfied with your score, you can apply for a score review. Our college will strictly calculate the comprehensive score according to the following proportions: 40% for practical assessment, 30% for on-the-job assessment, and 30% for research achievement. We will select the best candidates for admission."

"This is a standard application and assessment system plan."

"In addition, three candidates from our cohort have passed our hospital's special program. Now, we will present the results of these candidates in front of all the other candidates."

"First, Xue Ruiqi and Zhou Fuyong passed the Congyan Program. Next, we will look at the research achievements of these two students during their master's studies, including the types of articles and their impact factors, which were found through literature retrieval in our school's library."

After Associate Professor Tang finished speaking, someone began to display the publication regulations for the two papers on the big screen, as well as the subsequent impact factor table and the total impact factor score.

All of them were academic papers, and their combined impact factor was over 30, leaving everyone looking at each other in bewilderment.

However, such searches cannot be faked. If they wish, they can also search based on the name and the corresponding organization.

This is truly impressive. Many PhDs, no, I should say most medical PhDs, don't have this much accumulated knowledge and experience when they graduate!

Tang Yi then stepped aside to give up his seat.

Professor Du Xinzhan, who is also the head of the Department of Orthopedics, said slowly and deliberately: "In this year's cohort, one of our candidates passed the special program for professional skills. Below is a video recording of his professional skills assessment process, which some of you may have seen on site."

"To ensure fairness, we will record these videos and send them to the college. We will also show them to all students after the assessment to explain why we approved Fang Ziye's specialized program!"

After Professor Du Xinzhan finished speaking, the video showed that Fang Ziye was unaware that the video was being recorded. As the video played, an uproar began in the crowd...

(End of this chapter)