Hearing her mother say this, Xie Wanying recalled how ti had flown by like a white horse galloping past, as the busy monts on the clinical front passed so swiftly, it was already the fourth half-year mark and another new year was approaching.
In fact, over the past couple of days, teachers had been sending them text ssages to remind interns about the upcoming New Year ti.
This was because, before the New Year, there were gatherings and celebratory dinners arranged by various departnts and hospitals. Teachers were texting them to invite them back to the departnts they interned at for New Year dinner gatherings.
The Hepatobiliary Surgery departnt was the first to send her a New Year greeting text. Senior Tao asked Dr. He to represent and invited not just her but also Student Pan, who happened to be interning at Hepatobiliary Surgery, to join the departnt’s New Year dinner.
Next, Teacher Xiao Sun, entrusted by Teacher Tan, asked her to return early to General Surgery Departnt Two for a al. The New Year dinner for General Surgery Departnt Two was scheduled early, probably to avoid clashing with other departnt activities.
Although she is not an internal dicine student, she also received invitations from Teacher Xin from the Respiratory Departnt and Teacher Lin from the Cardiology Departnt.
Just with these dinner gatherings, her and her classmates’ schedules were packed full during this period, estimating they might get tired of eating big als every day.
At Beidou Third Hospital, not only did she and Student Geng have New Year dinner plans with Teacher Du, but Doctor Peng from the Obstetrics Departnt also sent a text inviting the two of them over for the departnt’s dinner.
Student Geng was most thrilled about receiving an invitation to a dinner with the three orthopedic teachers from Guoxie. Of course, Student Geng told her that the orthopedic teachers wanted him to bring her along to the al.
So many departnts invited their classmates to dinner, except for the Cardiothoracic Surgery and Neurosurgery departnts. According to their classmates, these two specialized departnts were in a state of uncertainty. The uncertainty lies in that before the new surgery building was completed, plans hadn’t been formalized. These two major departnts were full in terms of personnel quota, with no recruitnt plans for the coming year, so they didn’t plan on inviting dical students for New Year dinner this year.
Generally, when leadership invites dical students to a al, dical students think that the departnt likely intends to recruit soone, thus creating opportunities to build relationships and establish connections with the students in advance.
Not every dical student on the clinical front has the opportunity to receive a dinner invitation from a teacher. She and her classmates were already lucky enough. Because the competition among dical students upon graduation continued to intensify, securing a position at a top-tier nationally-ranked hospital seed endlessly challenging. It was common to see classmates wear worried expressions, and Xie Wanying’s own stress was not alleviated much.
She noticed that Teacher Fu didn’t send her a New Year dinner invitation.
Apart from her, the class monitor who was keen on joining Neurosurgery might be even more anxious to death than she was. Yue Wentong had even less of a fallback option compared to her and only wished to follow Senior Cao. The issue was that after Senior Cao accepted the genius Song Xueling, the recruitnt standards got even higher.
For dical students, only after finding a job post-graduation can one truly feel they’ve boarded the ship and can finally feel at ease.
"Pack your things tomorrow. Li Xuan has booked our train tickets for the day after. We might arrive at your side of the city at the west station by evening," Sun Rongfang said to her daughter, "Not sure if you’ll be off work by then?"
Now, the timing clashed.
The surgery scheduled the day after tomorrow afternoon was uncertain as to how long it would take, given it involved a critically ill patient.
Hearing her daughter’s sowhat hesitant voice from the other side, Sun Rongfang imdiately understood, "It’s alright if you can’t pick us up. Li Xuan will be picking us up. She said she has a car now; it’s very convenient. Focus on your work and studies; they’re important."
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