My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

"I will work twice as hard!"

Zhou Can humbly accepted the advice given by his teacher.

He also faced his own shortcomings.

At the same time, he noticed that after Dr. Xu publicly pointed out a multitude of his shortcomings, people like Dr. Lu began to look at him with much friendlier eyes.

Only then did Zhou Can understand the painstaking concern of his teacher.

Tall trees catch much wind.

Being too excellent can easily breed jealousy.

Finding appropriate shortcomings to let other jealous individuals find their psychological balance is also a form of protection for him.

It could also reduce many unnecessary troubles.

"Ah, Dr. Xu's expectations for Xiao Zhou are too high! His level among the standardized residency trainees already stands out from the crowd, you can't expect him to be on the same level as us chief doctors, can you?"

Look, the effect has emerged.

Doctor Fu started to speak well of Zhou Can.

"A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. It's not wrong to be strict with him!"

Dr. Xu achieved the desired effect and did not delay any further.

"Alright, the operating room is yours now, let's wrap up and go home."

...

Days passed by one by one, and Doctor Fu never mentioned overtime work for Zhou Can again.

Many colleagues in the Emergency Department kept their distance from Zhou Can.

On the other hand, Zhou Can was punctually clocking in and out of his job and under Dr. Xu's care, continued performing level 1 surgeries independently.

Ever since he demonstrated incision and separation skills at the resident doctor level, Dr. Xu gradually started giving him some simple excision surgeries.

However, whenever the risk was slightly higher, Dr. Xu would always stand by during Zhou Can's surgeries to provide guidance.

Dr. Xu was exceptionally strict about safety.

Besides rapidly earning experience points in the operating room, because he didn't have to do overtime recently, Zhou Can would buy eight to ten white mice every day to practice at his apartment.

His experience points in incision, separation, and ligation skills kept soaring.

It was truly a day-and-night difference.

However, this practice method was also very costly.

Just the cost of purchasing white mice required 1600 to 2000 yuan per day.

That added up to nearly 60,000 yuan a month.

For an average person, this would be unbearable.

Fortunately, practicing with white mice was only a necessity in the early stages. Once most of his skills reached the chief level, the main battleground for practicing skills would completely shift to the operating room.

By then, he would directly earn experience points from patients, which was faster, and not only would it cost nothing, he could even make money.

However, the wages for standardized residency trainees were quite fixed.

According to national regulations, a trainee doctor would get 10 yuan for writing a case report and 50 yuan for each shift of on-call duty, but when it came to payday, this money was never seen.

Asking the teachers in charge of the training program was useless.

Approaching the department heads was daunting; if someone was bold enough and fearless of death to actually ask the head about this, it would still end up being unresolved.

The hospital wouldn't pay, so it couldn't possibly be deducted from the department, right?

Hence, what the trainees could actually get was merely the pitifully small meal allowance, the basic salary, and the national subsidy. Overtime pay might be given appropriately each month.

Bonuses, performance commissions, surgery commissions—that was dreaming.

However, there were some doctors who joined Tuya Hospital for standardized residency as continuing education trainees; aside from earning the afore-mentioned wages, their original hospitals would also pay them another salary.

Of course, those who joined the training program as continuing education trainees had a huge difference from the directly recruited trainees like Zhou Can.

To learn real skills, one had to be a comprehensive residency trainee like Zhou Can.

They were the 'core disciples' of the hospital.

The hospital would cultivate them as the successors for the future.

Besides, there were also targeted residency trainees. Their status was much lower than that of the comprehensive residency trainees.

But they were also cultivated as one of the hospital's own.

There were exceptionally outstanding targeted residency trainees who eventually became lead doctors in a discipline, group leaders, attending physicians, or department heads.

In short, if the three types of residency trainees were to be ranked,

The comprehensive was the best, with very limited recruitment slots, high difficulty, and high weight. Targeted was next; as long as the department had needs, they would recruit a batch of related specialty trainees for cultivation, selecting the best and eliminating the weaker ones. After the training ended, some were lucky to get a chance to stay at the hospital and become regular employees. Some, after receiving their training certificate, might be eliminated.

Continuing education residency was the worst.

Plainly speaking, it was just some city-level hospitals or smaller hospitals sending doctors over to gild their credentials.

They might learn something to bring back, but core medical techniques were hard to come by.

Tuya Hospital conservatively estimated, at least over 200 trainee doctors were recruited every year.

The differences among them could only be experienced personally.

...

It's worth mentioning that while practicing with white mice, he discovered a very obvious issue.

That was, ever since his Hemostasis Skill reached Level 4, there was nothing abnormal at first.

But not long ago, when the experience points reached 1000/10000 at Level 4, it suddenly stopped increasing.

Performing hemostasis on patients continued to net an increase of 1 point in experience each time.

But practicing on white mice, the Hemostasis Skill could only gain 0.001 each time.

He was very clear; this was a punitive experience value given by the system.

It was a problem he had encountered before when practicing suturing techniques.

The only solution was to earn it from treating actual patients.

Other methods were basically ineffective.

He secretly speculated that perhaps practicing the Hemostasis Skill on white mice had reached its peak.

That was why continuing practice was essentially ineffective.

Thinking about it, it indeed made sense.

Hemostasis below Level 4 primarily used electrocoagulation. But after reaching Level 4, the methods of hemostasis started to become complex and diverse. It was no longer simply about electrocoagulation or ligation of blood vessels.