The road to the rise of great doctors

Chapter 116 First time attending the meeting

Time flies like water, and time flies like a shuttle.

Hospital work is simple, repetitive and interesting.

Amidst the busy schedule, the time of this week is gradually passing away.

Friday afternoon, doctor's office.

"Liu Dong, why don't we go together after get off work?" Around three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Gang and Liu Dong asked him after checking on the patients.

"Okay, I'm in the office, call me when you leave." Liu Dong nodded and replied.

An academic conference will be held in a southwestern central city from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. on Saturday. Because the meeting is in the morning, they need to take the high-speed train to arrive early.

Liu Dong was still curious about this meeting.Liu Dong has participated in many conferences, but this is the first time for him to attend an academic conference related to clinical medicine.

Before this, he had participated in a clinical medicine training class.That was from the urological laparoscopy training session I attended in Kyoto some time ago.

After receiving an invitation to attend an academic conference, he once had a chat with Li Xiao during the evening chat.When I was in the department, I occasionally heard other doctors talk about fragments.It's a preliminary understanding.

According to Li Xiao's sharing, for graduate students, being able to give oral reports or share posters at domestic medical association annual meetings will be a bonus when evaluating excellence in schools or hospitals.Even if the submitted abstract is selected, it is a qualification.

For young doctors who have just started working, they also have the same need for extra points as medical students, but they may also encounter various academic conferences after working.

If the professional title reaches attending physician or deputy chief physician or above, in terms of personal development, in addition to oral reports and poster presentations at domestic annual meetings, more and more people are beginning to try to have more at international conferences. It is a trend to display one's own basic research results and the team's basic or clinical results, and to continuously make one's voice heard on international or domestic platforms, and it is also a bonus item in the evaluation of excellence and professional titles.Speaking of which, I felt even more proud.

The meeting Liu Dong and the others attended was different from this kind of demand—it was a hosting meeting held by a pharmaceutical company.

Liu Dong is not biased just because this is a meeting of a pharmaceutical company. He is full of curiosity about unfamiliar things and will understand them before evaluating them.He is also thinking about how such academic conferences are run and whether there is anything to learn from them.

In terms of the format of the conference, there are online conferences and offline conferences.But offline meetings basically occupy the mainstream.The reason may be that academic communication also requires trust. Simply online is just an impression, but offline can have a deeper impression.

On the career path, you never work alone, but in partnership.

There are not only mentors and apprentices, classmates, same schools, but also the support of other seniors, competition and cooperation among peers, and complex circles of contacts between different small groups.The ebb and flow, it’s hard to describe in a word.Of course, online meetings also have their advantages.Online conferences, regardless of time, are available on weekdays and weekends. People without roles can just scan the QR code to watch. You can freely choose to watch and close, and you can switch between different speeches at the same time.Only those participants who have a role need to reserve enough time, either for speeches or to participate in discussions. The chairman or host needs to start, end, and summarize and introduce during the process.

The mainstream offline conferences are sometimes more like a vanity fair, with big names wandering between different venues and time constraints.Some people will focus their time at one venue, and different people will make different choices.

From the organizer's point of view, Saturday's conference was sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.In terms of form, it is an offline meeting.

The reason for choosing Saturday or Sunday.The reason is simple, because the vast majority of doctors need to be on full duty in the hospital from Monday to Friday, and it is inconvenient to go out.As for Saturdays and Sundays, excluding legal holidays, year-end summary, fiscal year end, etc., within a year, there are actually very few left.As for whether to choose Saturday or Sunday, which one is more popular, it mainly depends on who the organizer of this conference most hopes to participate in? !
Conferences sponsored by pharmaceutical companies also have two types: mainly academic purposes and mainly promotional purposes.The academic purpose is, to a certain extent, brand building, establishing the academic label of pharmaceutical companies. In this atmosphere, it is actually more conducive to their "concept shaping". After all, although medicine is an "uncertain science", The basic market is "scientific, data-oriented, and practical." What is useful is useful, and what is useless is useless.Even if it can be deceived temporarily, the long-term still depends on the balance between efficacy and safety!

Of course, in addition to meetings held by pharmaceutical companies, the mainstream ones are meetings hosted by medical associations at various levels, such as international, provincial, municipal, etc.The annual academic conference of the national medical association is the most important in the country, but the other ones are actually of limited effectiveness.National academic conferences usually have a fixed time every year - for example, the Oncology Clinical Academic Conference is held in a southeastern tourist city in September every year, or the time is different every year, which is usually determined at the annual meeting of the previous year. next year’s meeting time.

Regarding this, Liu Dong felt eye-opening after learning about it.After understanding this, he also intended to actively contribute and get opportunities to share at the right time.

When it was time to get off work, Liu Dong followed Zhao Gang to the door of the hospital with his bag on his back.There, there is already a special car waiting.

After getting on the bus, I heard Zhao Gang's cell phone ringing, "Hey, I'm on the bus, thank you for your hard work."

Zhao Gang put down his cell phone and realized that Liu Dong was a little curious, so he turned to him and said, "The sales phone number and the car he helped call can be reimbursed after the invoice is issued."

Seeing Liu Dong nodding, Zhao Gang continued, "This young man is relatively reliable. He doesn't talk much, but he doesn't talk nonsense and doesn't cause trouble. We should just rely on our hearts and don't have to think too much."

Then, the two discussed what happened in the hospital recently and the theme of the upcoming meeting. When talking about this, Liu Dong became more interested.

The theme of the conference is "Comprehensive management of gastrointestinal stromal tumors."

Speaking of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, it is interesting. This is a rare disease, but it can be encountered clinically from time to time, and the incidence rate is constantly rising.Moreover, this disease lacks reference in many aspects. In other words, diagnosis and treatment strategies are gradually establishing norms.

As a relatively young tumor, it was only officially classified independently from the classification of gastrointestinal tumors in the past ten years. Previously, it was often misdiagnosed as leiomyoma and leiomyosarcoma in clinical practice.Moreover, in addition to appearing in the gastrointestinal tract, they may also be free outside the gastrointestinal tract, which is called "extragastrointestinal stromal tumor."

The general treatment principles are the same.

Because of this ongoing norm building, the “unmet clinical need” is large.Basic scientific research such as pathology and immunohistochemistry, as well as clinical scientific research such as drug treatment, require great progress.

Continuously learning new knowledge from various sources at work is a continuous practice for doctors in their work.
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