Surgery Godfather

Chapter 209: Chapter 0197 Extra Homework

An academic conference became a matter of paramount importance at Sanbo Hospital.

After careful review and discussion within the hospital, and strongly advocated by Professor Zhang Zongshun, the hospital has granted full surgical privileges for trauma surgery to Yang Ping and Song Zimo.

That is, Yang Ping can now perform trauma surgeries on the spine, pelvic region, limbs, chest, abdomen, and cranium besides her usual operations.

Normally, chest injury surgery is performed by thoracic surgeons, abdominal injury surgery is performed by the departments of general surgery, urological surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology, and cranial trauma surgery is performed by neurosurgeons.

This division of labor is due to the specialization of different doctors and it’s a global practice. However, some of the world’s top trauma centers have begun to train comprehensive surgeons.

These comprehensive surgeons are capable of dealing with trauma from any part of the body. Previously, poly-trauma surgeries that required cooperation across multiple departments can now be performed by a single comprehensive trauma surgeon.

This allows doctors to have a holistic understanding and handle trauma, thus avoiding the inefficient segmentation of poly-trauma treatments.

The trauma center of Tokyo University’s affiliated hospital has already trained such top comprehensive trauma surgeons, such as Takahashi Fumiya’s team.

Yang Ping’s ability to perform poly-trauma surgeries was fully demonstrated during the major rescue at Shipo, and Song Zimo had undergone multiple training in poly-trauma surgery from his postgraduate studies to his career.

Thus, both of them have this capability. To avoid the inefficiencies from the segmented treatment of poly-trauma, the hospital granted them full surgical privileges for entire body trauma. In emergencies, they can operate without needing interdepartmental cooperation.

After the meeting, training commenced the next day, and the integrated orthopedic outpatient clinic also stopped accepting patients, allowing Yang Ping to focus on the departmental physician’s training.

According to the training process, Yang Ping will first develop four training instructors, who will begin training others after passing the exam.

Song Zimo is a diligent person who almost persisted in taking two-hour trainings in the orthopedics training room every day.

Yang Ping often guides him in his daily routines and believes that Song Zimo doesn’t need training and can proceed directly to the exam.

In the morning, Yang Ping personally carried out theory and operation tests on Song Zimo.

Whether it was theory or practice, Song Zimo achieved full marks in the exams.

For the theoretical exam, the department purchased a computer question bank from a medical examination training institution.

There are a large number of questions in it. These questions are of very high quality and are sourced from professional exams conducted domestically and internationally over the years.

The questions essentially cover anatomy, physiology, pathology, pathophysiology, basic orthopedic theory, and basic surgery.

Each exam can randomly generate a test paper from the question bank, with two hundred questions, all with multiple choices. Incorrect or multiple answers will deduct marks, making the exam quite challenging.

Yang Ping randomly generated three test papers for Song Zimo to do, with all of them scored 100 and quickly completed.

Yang Ping also attempted to test Director Tian, Dr. Jin, and Dr. Zhong. If they pass, there will be no need for further training, thus saving time.

Director Tian scored 95 in theory and about 96 in operation; Dr. Jin scored 92.5 in theory and just over 91 in operation; Dr. Zhong scored 90 in theory and just over 90 in operation. Even without any preparation, the fact that they barely passed is quite impressive.

As there were many different items in the operation, each item is scored out of one hundred. The final score is an average of all items, thus the decimals.

These few were already the cream of the crop. If other experts were to sit for the exam without any training, almost all of them would undoubtedly fail.

After the internal testing from the training team was completed, the examination for Director Han and Director Tan began in the afternoon.

The directors of several departments were present, as were all other doctors who were free, supervised by Dean Xia.

Everyone initially thought it was a mere formality, but the examination method made it clear this was not the case.

Theoretical exams were taken on a computer, the test paper was randomly generated from a question bank on the spot, and the results were announced immediately after submission.

For the operating tests, candidates were evaluated in front of everyone, and the scores were given right on the spot, leaving no room for subterfuge.

To prove that the two directors were not favored by Yang Ping, a Q&A session was added. Each person in the audience received a piece of paper, wrote down a question anonymously, collected, and read out by Yang Ping for the directors to answer on the spot.

Everyone, including Director Bai, no longer thought the directors were simply going through the motions. Who would dare to accept such a test?

Yet, under such circumstances, without any prior preparation and relying on their everyday skills,

Old Han scored full marks in both theory and practice. He answered 8 questions on the spot, none of them answered incorrectly or incompletely.

Tan Boyun scored 95 in theory and 95 in operation, and correctly and fully answered all 14 questions asked on the spot.

This left everyone speechless. The abilities of the two directors were beyond doubt. This was under circumstances where no preparation was made.

Several directors of training groups and some curious doctors all took part in the mock exam and they all failed miserably.

None of them scored above eighty, but of course, following Director Han’s suggestion, the scores were not made public.

Once the test was completed on the computer, everyone handed in their test papers. The scores were immediately released and only they themselves knew the results.

One by one, they felt a chill in their hearts. Especially the directors of the groups, they discovered a great gap after experiencing this. The others were either achieving full scores or close to full marks, while their own results were abysmal.

Despite being a deputy medical director or medical director and even obtained a master’s degree in guidance, they were still short of eighty. If they argued that the questions were too basic, well, others had solved them.

Fatty joked, why not have Doctor Yang give it a try? Dr. Zhong was particularly curious about what score Yang Ping could get, so he joined in the clamor.

Dr. Zhong came with Director Tan from Fuer. he’d been tormented by Yang Ping as soon as he arrived and felt somewhat disgruntled.

If everyone insists, I’ll give it a try. Yang Ping saw everyone’s enthusiasm and decided to satisfy their curiosity.

In the theoretical test, three consecutive test papers, six hundred questions, scanning ten lines at a glance, constantly clicking the mouse. Almost every one or two seconds a question was answered, scoring one hundred percent three times in a row.

In the practical exam, it was a joke. He was admitted to this hospital by passing the practical test. Knotting, hemostasis, making incisions, dissection, suturing, his eyes were almost blurred.

Instrument manipulation felt like juggling in his hands.

The way Song Zimo hid scissors while suturing made Dr. Zhong unable to watch directly.

Yang Ping was juggling instruments in his hands like a magician now.

Suturing was completed neatly, almost indistinguishable from that done by precision machinery.

He made 250 square knots and 500 positive and negative knots in one minute.

Dr. Zhong counted again and again, could he achieve half of those results? Impossible!

“You’d better stop testing him. Let’s maintain some self-confidence, that’s enough. You see, even I dare not to bring it up!”

Song Zimo said to Dr. Zhong. It was getting late and it was pointless to continue.

No wonder he is the training group leader. No wonder he was exempt from exams. No wonder he was chosen to train directors, with this level of skill–

Not to mention him, even Song Zimo underneath him probably couldn’t surpass him, Dr. Zhong had to admit he was impressed.

“Xiao Yang, you’ve worked hard these days!” Dean Xia, Director Han and Director Tan withdrew.

People began to disperse slowly. As people left, Song Zimo finally found an opportunity: “I’ve been practicing the tossing you talked about last time. When I’ve mastered it, can you teach me the balancing adjustment of the four-link reconstruction?”

“Once you’ve mastered it, not only the balancing of four-link reconstruction, but also many other things I can teach you. Put this matter aside for now.”

“I have an assignment for you. Draw a human anatomy diagram without referring to any books, just based on your memory. Systemic and local anatomical parts of the whole body should be drawn.”

“If you can’t draw, don’t go on stage with me at the academic conference, be prepared to sit on the cold bench by then.”

Having said that, Yang Ping ignored him.

“Hey, Senior Brother? This wasn’t in the exam, was it?”

“I added it, I’m the team leader!”

“Senior Brother?”

“This is just the first assignment, there’ll be a second one after this, even harder! Don’t you want to be the best surgeon?”

It was time to get off work. Xiao Su was still waiting for him to have dinner together. He left the training room lights to Song Zimo to turn off, he still had two hours of training to do.

Song Zimo stood there in a daze. It wasn’t until Yang Ping was several meters away that he called out,

“Thank you! I’ll do my best–”

Yang Ping didn’t look back, he just gave him a thumbs-up in response.