Surgery Godfather-Chapter 588 - 535 Professor_2

Some provincial hospitals, though not affiliated with universities, have many high-ranking doctors who take on part-time roles and apply for teaching positions at the medical universities within the same province.

Yang Ping originally held the position of attending physician. At Nandu Medical University, he could only apply for a lectureship. To attain the position of associate professor, he had to adopt a strategy of being appointed to a higher position than his current one.

In the past, such a strategy was impossible—career advancement had to be achieved step by step.

Recently, Nandu Medical University has implemented reforms, promoting young talents with abilities. Every year, there is a very limited number of positions for appointment to higher positions. However, the requirements are extremely strict and require the recommendation of three scholars in the industry.

"Director, are you saying that I’m now an associate professor? An associate professor with a formal employment contract, not just an informal title?"

Yang Ping asked, taken aback by the sudden news that he, at his young age, was an associate professor.

But it doesn’t matter much. Though career advancement among doctors is highly dependent on seniority, this is less so in the case of academic rankings.

For example, Su Nanchen’s fiancee became a professor and doctoral advisor at the age of twenty-eight.

Among doctors, it is impossible to be promoted to head physician at the age of twenty-eight.

For someone like Yang Ping, who is not even thirty years old yet has been appointed to a higher position, this is a very unconventional and daring move.

Director Han nodded, "That’s right, it’s the same as when we appointed you as Deputy Chief Physician. This associate professorship is only recognized by Nandu Medical University because it’s an appointment to a position higher than your current one. This is a special treatment reserved for unique talents that requires recommendations from three academicians. So obtaining the title of associate professor is not easy."

Old Han thought to himself, why are you worrying about this? As long as you’re an associate professor, it doesn’t matter who recognises it.

Don’t you know how excellent you are?

Doesn’t your father-in-law know dozens of academicians? Don’t you know this?

Given that all these internal and external conditions are met, securing an appointment to the position of associate professor should be a piece of cake.

"Tomorrow, your introduction column will add – Associate Professor! That’s all there is to it. You’re busy, I’m leaving. Dean Xia will come to see you in the operating room later."

After saying these words, Director Han got up and left, with Yang Ping trailing behind him.

After seeing Director Han off, Yang Ping returned to the doctor’s office, where Zhang Lin greeted him, "Professor Yang!"

Song Zimo came over and put an arm around Yang Ping’s shoulder, "You’re just being rewarded for your abilities. When’s the feast? I plan to make some progress and get another postdoc, so hurry up. When can you mentor a postdoctoral student? I’ll be the first."

These guys have sharp ears and would hear the news even if the door was closed. Yang Ping coughed a few times before sitting down.

"The professor has something to say, everyone come over for a meeting!" Song Zimo waved his hand, signaling everyone to gather.

This damn Robert has been calling me ’Professor’ for more than ten days, and now I’m actually one.

Even though it’s an associate position, it’s still a professorship.

When faced with difficulties in scientific research in the future, I can summon Robert to do nothing but shout, "Success, success, success!" at dawn.

Everyone sat down around Yang Ping, waiting to hear what the newly-appointed professor had to say.

"So..."

What was there to say? Wasn’t this just about being an associate professor?

"This weekend, we’ll have a casual dinner at the seaside restaurant. Little Five, book a big room in advance. All doctors and nurses are invited, except those who are on duty." Yang Ping was straightforward and blunt.

Song Zimo was a little uncertain, "Are you sure about the seaside restaurant?"

A high-end seafood restaurant where anything goes, each table could easily cost more than ten thousand.

"What, do you want to change the venue?" Yang Ping was getting impatient.

"No, no, no, it’s settled. Little Five, count the number of people later and call to book a private room." Song Zimo feared that Yang Ping would change his mind, so he asked Little Five to act quickly.

He’s still a Ph.D. student, yet he already holds the position of an associate professor. It’s entirely reasonable to make him pay dearly for a meal. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

"What patients have we recently admitted, tell me." Yang Ping had been out for so many days. There must have been many new patients in and out of the department.

Song Zimo started to report the situation of hospital patients in the department during the past ten days. After the report, he said:

"There’s one more thing, the hospital is preparing to organize a basketball tournament, our department needs to sign up."

"Playing basketball, can we even put together a team?" Yang Ping looked around the office. There were only a few of us in the department now, but quite a lot of graduate students and standardized training students.

"Our department is currently high-quality but a bit short staffed, you, me, Old Xu, Zhang Lin, Little Five, Li Guodong are all good to go, Liang Fatty is a bit weak physically, but his three-pointer is pretty accurate--"

"Plus, several graduate students, and standardized training students, who aren’t that good at it, one of the good ones got pulled away by Director Mei of the obstetrics and gynecology department."

Song Zimo is in charge of the department’s daily management, something like the CEO under Yang Ping, who definitely needs to report these matters.

Song Zimo is a basketball expert, and Yang Ping is not bad either. Little Five and Zhang Lin are decent enough, and Fatty is a bit weak, he can’t run, but he has some tricks up his sleeve. Thinking about it, the team seems quite strong, they will put up a good fight in this basketball game.

"How is the strength of various departments in the hospital currently?" Yang Ping didn’t really care about this usually.

Song Zimo was very familiar with the power distribution in the hospital:

"The Emergency Department is pretty strong, Xiong Sihai is worth several players, and he has a few strong men under him; on the administration side, Dean Xia is the team captain himself, several deputy deans are all in.

"My god, who dares to fight them for the ball?" Zhang Lin cried out about the unfairness.

Song Zimo said: "No worries, Professor Zhang Zongshun is the chief referee, the old man has declared that if Dean Xia dares to keep hitting people with the ball, he will be sent off directly."

"What about Paediatrics, there’s a guy called Cai Junsheng, how’s he doing?" Little Five asked.

"That Mama Cai plays quite well, but the other people in Pediatrics are not so competent, no need to worry about them."

"The Orthopedics department this year is awesome, they’ve formed a huge team, led by Tan Boyun himself, and they have declared they are aiming for the championship."

"Director Mei of Obstetrics and Gynecology has gathered a team of graduate and standardized training students, there are only three men in their department, but they have asked for several pros from other departments saying they will let them leave after the game. They always do this, it’s a silent agreement with the hospital’s management."

"General Surgery is also not bad, though they don’t have any strong men, each one is skillful."

"Plan well for the basketball tournament and prepare in advance. We’re a new department and we need to show our level this year. You, Song Zimo, should take charge of the organization. In a few days there will be a patient from Oman coming over with a rare disease, genu recurvatum. All of you should do your homework beforehand. It’s a rare case with not many instances in the whole world. The surgery is difficult and will test our biomechanics knowledge. There are many difficult problems to solve. The prosthesis to be used during the surgery needs to be custom-made, you should communicate more with Engineer Chen from Sharp Medical at that time."

Huang Jiacai has already moved the headquarters of Sharp Medical to Nandu, G City, which is more conducive to the company’s future development, and has set up a medical equipment research institute, the chief engineer of which is Chen Zhi.

Hearing that there would be a challenging case, Song Zimo immediately got excited, as did Xu Zhiliang.

Yang Ping called everyone into his office, turned on the computer, and pulled out the data from his email.

A 3D reconstruction image of the entire skeleton of a camel human.

"Can you guys identify the disease from this?"

Zhang Lin stared for a long time: "Are you sure these are human bones?"

"Your IQ---is a bit worrying, the professor even said---it is a genu recurvatum," stutter Xu said to Zhang Lin.

Stutter Xu had improved a bit through speech training, at least most of the time he didn’t stutter as badly as before.

Zhang Lin blushed, this guy always robs him of his dignity, he should at least give some respect to Teacher Zhang.