Chapter 2323: Hard Criteria
The medical students who come to study under Cao Zhao are all those who have fought fiercely to get in. The students all understand that having one more student would take away the teacher’s attention from them, and it has not been easy for them to attract the teacher’s attention.
"We have accepted those people from Guoxie, but who does this person think he is!" Most medical students were top scorers in the college entrance exams and are quite proud, naturally looking down on people who didn’t get here based on their scores. In other words, Xie Wanying and the others’ performance this morning was relatively convincing.
"Someone said he’s so-and-so’s son."
"Would the teacher agree?"
"Why wouldn’t they agree? It’s not about arranging work, it doesn’t affect graduation grades, just another person to watch."
To put it in perspective, there are as many students in the teaching hospital as there are cattle, with all sorts of people and situations. The teachers cannot afford to pay too much attention. Like last night when Dai Nanhui said he would follow Doctor Tian, but later wandered off on his own? Like in Hepatobiliary Surgery before, the little fangirl Fan Yunyun didn’t have any backdoor options, and she still managed on her own to find Senior Sister Xie and eventually successfully changed groups. This means that it is not strictly prohibited for students in teaching hospitals to find teachers and network themselves. No matter what methods you use, if you can learn successfully on your own, you’re impressive.
Not to mention Dai Nanhui; among this group of people, many have used connections behind the scenes in a similar manner, they just haven’t said it out loud. It is important to distinguish one thing here: this kind of clinical teaching and coaching is about teaching in groups and is not the responsibility of a personal tutor concerning student grades. As Director Li said, having one more person to observe the teacher’s clinical skills doesn’t matter.
If you really want the teacher to help you achieve results, you have to continue working hard on your own. For medical students, the hard requirement to make a teacher willing to mentor you is research.
As long as you don’t fail a course, getting your graduation certificate is quite simple. For medical students with a strong academic foundation, unless they don’t want to study themselves, it’s too easy to get high scores in exams. The medical license is a unified national exam and is unrelated to the medical school and teachers.
Learning clinical skills requires extensive observation and practice in clinical settings. Many doctors acquire their clinical skills gradually in the workplace after graduation, which is similar to graduates of other professions. Both medical schools and hospitals are aware of this, so they don’t set the threshold or focus there.
Only medical students’ research genuinely affects their degree certificate and employment. Unfortunately, this is not an issue that can be resolved with just study and exams.
A medical student completing their bachelor’s degree is nothing significant; in the medical field’s competitive environment, pursuing a Ph.D. after a few more years is likely. In top hospitals like Guoxie’s Shou’er, master’s students have already begun to be phased out, and basically, only Ph.D.s are accepted.
When it comes to research and publishing papers, undergraduate papers are generally not produced from laboratory research and are insignificant. Master’s and Ph.D. papers are required to originate from laboratory research. Medical students themselves do not have laboratory conditions and can only seek to join their teacher’s research group, which requires a mentor’s guidance and a mentor’s name. At this time, the mentor is very important.
The number of spots for mentor recruitment allocated by the school each year is generally limited, leading to intense competition among the numerous mentors in the school, ensuring that most mentors cannot secure recruitment spots.
This undoubtedly crushes the dreams of many students. A medical student first has the luck to encounter an admired teacher who happens to be recruiting in his year of applying for a master’s or Ph.D., then fights through numerous challenges, and ultimately strives to secure that special spot.