Forty-nine, new dean

  Wan Feng is a slow and inexperienced author, with no draft in stock, writing one chapter every night, trying to ensure daily updates. These two days have been going well, with 3,000+ words per day; but as you all saw, when I'm stuck, it's only around 2,000+. So Wan Feng thanks book friends for their voting support, but 3,000 words is enough, any more would be too much pressure! Hehe!

  After staying at home for more than three weeks, Fang Hua returned to school with a full charge. Since there were still two weeks before the start of classes, Fang Hua went to the emergency department for an internship again. After returning, she didn't meet Liang Jiahui. It wasn't until she saw the letter he left on her desk that she knew he had gone back to his hometown in the countryside for summer vacation.

  Fanghua is no longer just staying in the emergency department all day. Because she often sends different emergency patients to different wards, she has also become familiar with the wards.

  She then began to follow up and track the situation of patients who had been treated in the emergency department after admission, which was very beneficial for her to understand the entire process of diagnosing and treating a patient. Especially, it can be used to verify whether the treatment measures taken by the patient in the emergency department are correct and reasonable.

  One afternoon, at a little past two o'clock, she was in the nephrology department's resident doctor office flipping through the medical records of a patient who had ingested fish gallbladder and was poisoned. Afternoons were usually the most relaxed time in the internal medicine ward; the senior doctors were basically not around, and even the junior residents and interns often took advantage of this opportunity to slack off and not be present, and even those on duty would often hide in the duty room sleeping.

  Fanghua was enjoying the quiet moment to herself when a middle-aged male doctor also came over and started flipping through her medical records with her. Fanghua assumed he was one of the attending physicians and didn't think much of it.

  After a while, he called her: "Classmate, go and help me find Director Li."

  Fang Hua was stunned: "Director Li? I don't know! Oh, I'm not an intern doctor here."

  He put down the medical record in his hand and looked at her strangely: "You're not an intern?! How can you be here looking at medical records?"

  "I'm a medical student, I came here for an internship. To be precise, I'm interning in the emergency department, and I just came to see the patient I sent over yesterday." Fang Hua tried her best to explain clearly.

  That person was still curious about her: "As far as I know, school is still on holiday, and there shouldn't be any classmates coming to the hospital for internship at this time?"

  "I'm just a freshman, I'll be a sophomore soon. I voluntarily asked to come to the hospital for an internship, it's different from the school-arranged internship."

  This person seems to have forgotten that he still needs to find Director Li, but instead is chatting with Fanghua wholeheartedly, and asked her why she came to the hospital for internship so early, what gains she got from the internship, if there were any difficulties during the internship, and whether she thinks the school should let students enter clinical practice earlier.

  Although Fanghua didn't know who this person was, he could see that his demeanor was calm and composed, and in their conversation, it was clear that he had a leader's consciousness of being in control. He must have some background. Fanghua didn't dare to be negligent towards him, so she answered his questions seriously.

  She thinks that entering clinical practice as early as herself is unnecessary, but it's not entirely unnecessary to arrange for freshmen and sophomores to experience the front line of clinical practice in hospitals. Because the basic knowledge learned in the first two years is disconnected from clinical practice and is relatively dry, allowing students to occasionally come into contact with the front line can help them establish their interest in medicine and reduce their resistance to dry knowledge.

  That person nodded repeatedly and finally asked what Fanghua's name was. Fanghua felt that she hadn't said anything wrong, so she straightforwardly told her name and also reported her class.

  He muttered "Lin Fanghua, Class 903" a few times, and suddenly his eyes lit up and he said: "Are you the one who just submitted a paper to the school newspaper? What was the title again?"

  Fang Hua found it a bit strange how he knew this too, but still replied: "It's about case analysis of nitrite poisoning."

  "That's great, that's great. Just a freshman and already writing papers for submission. The young generation is indeed formidable! I've read the article and it's basically finalized, ready to be published in the first issue of our academic journal next year."

  "Really, it's too good!" she said with her mouth, but in her heart, she was still half-believing and half-doubting, wasn't it too quick?!

  He didn't look for Director Li in the end and just left like that. As he was leaving, he even happily said to Fang Hua: "Young comrade, keep working hard! The future of the hospital is yours!"

  Who is this person after all? How dare she be so arrogant? Unable to think of anything, she pushed the medical record cart back to the nurse station.

  Several nurses at the nurse station stared at her for half a day and finally couldn't help but ask, "Classmate, what did you talk about with Director Shi earlier?"

  Fang Hua was stunned: "What, he is actually Dean Shi? The Dean Shi who just returned from abroad and has been in office for less than half a year?"

  The nurse was shocked: "You've been talking for half a day and you still don't know who he is?! You even chatted with him for half a day!"

  Fang Hua was also embarrassed. She had only heard that in the past six months, several famous doctors who had studied abroad had returned to the hospital and taken up important positions in the hospital and medical school. Among them, Dean Shi Yingjie held two important clinical and teaching positions as the first dean of the affiliated hospital and the dean of the medical school, with importance and actual power not inferior to that of the president.

  It is said that after the president took office, he made many reforms to the affiliated hospital, with one hand grasping medical quality and the other cracking down on the practice of accepting red envelopes, his style was swift and decisive, and he didn't care about offending people.

  It's said that one evening when he was making his rounds, he found several young doctors playing mahjong in the office. He immediately overturned the table, and the mahjong tiles scattered all over the floor. The doctors were left speechless. From then on, no one dared to play mahjong during work hours again. People in the hospital gave him the nickname "Yama" (the King of Hell). Otherwise, why would those nurses be so concerned about what he and Fang Hua had talked about earlier?

  It's just that his bold moves are mainly aimed at the affiliated hospital, and I haven't heard of him making any waves on the school or medical college side. However, I don't know if the bookshelves given to each student by the school and the newspaper stand set up at the entrance of the cafeteria have anything to do with him. If so, Fang Hua hopes that this reformer will bring more surprises and changes to everyone in the future!

  As the Dean of both colleges, it's natural that he would notice his own article. Sure enough, Fang Hua soon received a notification from the journal's editorial department that her paper had been accepted.

  Although Yan Wang's name was intimidating, after their encounter, Fang Hua felt that she had done nothing wrong and soon put the matter behind her.

  Unexpectedly, after a few days, Director Shi personally came to the emergency department. After inspecting the work of the emergency department, he specifically found an office and asked by name for Lin Fanghua to have a good chat with him.

  Fang Hua was startled: such a big shot, wanting to chat with her. What could they talk about? After all, she was just an unknown small potato, and that paper was just an ordinary paper, not worth mentioning!

  With a nervous heart, she walked into the director's office. This time she saw the dean's appearance clearly. He had a big face and ears, somewhat auspicious, but not the kind of warm and gentle smile like Maitreya Buddha, instead giving people a sense of oppression. Especially his eyes were sharp and fierce, showing that this person had strong self-confidence.

  Fang Hua secretly mocked herself: That day, I didn't know his identity and could still face him calmly; today, knowing that the person in front of me is Dean Shi, why do I feel a little nervous involuntarily?

  The dean noticed Fanghua was a bit nervous, so he proactively poured her a glass of water and said: "Little Lin, don't be nervous. I asked you to come today just to casually chat with you about the school situation, especially about the teaching affairs of the Medical College. Last time we chatted in Nephrology, it was pretty good, but the time was too short. Later, I learned about your situation from your grade director, Teacher Guo. I found that you are not only an excellent student with good grades and character, but also have a very proactive and enterprising spirit. You passed the English level 6 exam in the first semester and then took the initiative to enter the department for internship, which shows that you are a person with ideas. This time, I specifically wanted to chat with you again. Don't be nervous, just like last time, pretend you don't know my identity, and just chat casually."

  After Fanghua's emotions calmed down, Dean Shi slowly got to the point: "I was also a student trained by our school, but that was more than 20 years ago. In recent years, I have been an visiting scholar in the United States and experienced the advanced teaching system abroad. This time after returning to China, I not only rectify the hospital to improve medical quality, but also make time to rectify the teaching of the Medical College. You are a student who is still in school, tell me about the situation of medical education in our school, what are the shortcomings, and how do you think our school should reform its teaching next?"

  Fanghua felt deeply moved that such a prestigious expert and big BOSS, who had traveled abroad and seen the world, would humbly seek her advice. She also let go of her inhibitions and spoke her mind freely.

  First, she thinks that the school's teaching and living facilities should be further strengthened and improved. The school has not built a new teaching building for many years, nor has it added new teaching equipment. The whole medical college does not have several classrooms that can accommodate electric teaching, which is not as good as some key middle schools. In addition, sports venues are also lacking, with only one standard stadium, which cannot meet the needs of physical exercise for all teachers and students.

  The second point, which she thinks is the most serious problem in school teaching, is that many basic courses are set up unreasonably and completely fail to keep up with the development of the information age. For example, computer classes still teach the completely useless BASIC language. Computer teaching should focus on practicality and follow the trend of computer development. Moreover, the teachers of basic courses are generally older in age, and their knowledge structure has become outdated. In foreign countries, many new theories and concepts have emerged in basic sciences, such as the concept of oncogenes that just won the 1989 Nobel Prize, which is a major breakthrough in cancer pathogenesis theory. However, these significant changes have never been mentioned in school textbooks or teachers' lectures. Therefore, the teachers of basic courses in schools should update their medical theories and concepts, in other words, keep pace with international developments. Of course, clinical professional courses also have similar problems.

  Third, the undergraduate medical students' study period was shortened from six years to five years. Relying solely on the clinical internship in the last year is not enough, and more time should be spent entering clinics during the third and fourth years. However, how to do this specifically depends on coordination by the medical college.

  Fourthly, a point that is not yet well emphasized in current university education is the mental health issue of college students. Although it's true that there are not too many only-child students in this era, and their psychological quality is stronger than those ten years ago, there are still quite a few psychological problems, especially among medical school students who are more severe. Every year, medical schools have students dropping out or transferring, and the suicide rate of medical students has always been the highest among all universities.

  This point, Fanghua has a deep impression; because in the third year, there was a female student from the class of 89 who jumped off the building and committed suicide. The bloodstains on the ground were shocking! It is said that the girl's reason for committing suicide was due to not doing well on exams and feeling guilty towards her parents. In response to the characteristic of medical students having too much academic pressure, the school should introduce more psychological intervention mechanisms in the campus, as well as strengthen the construction of campus cultural life, so that the learning atmosphere of the medical college is not only serious and tense, but also united and lively.

  For now, Fang Hua just thought of these and said so much.

  The dean listened very seriously and took notes. He really didn't expect a young girl like her to come up with such profound suggestions. In the meantime, he was also surprised that Lin Fanghua knew about the latest theory of proto-oncogenes, because many senior doctors in China were not even aware of these latest developments abroad. Little did he know, these things would become standard theories more than a decade later.

  In addition, Dean Shi deeply resonated with Lin Fanghua's words that medical education should be connected to the international level. During his time abroad, he deeply felt that the education of his alma mater and the international level had a significant gap. If the Medical University and its affiliated hospitals want to regain their former glory and dominate the domestic market like they did before liberation, their vision cannot be limited to this small region in southwest China. They must establish themselves domestically and look abroad, strengthening exchanges with foreign counterparts in all aspects.

  Finally, the Dean of the Medical School revealed some inside information to Fang Hua: The medical school is trying a teaching reform that connects with international standards, which is a teaching exchange project in cooperation with New York University Medical School. It's still in the preparation stage and will be implemented next year, coinciding with Lin Fanghua's grade as a pilot.

  Fang Hua expressed her deep expectations for this.