Two days ago, I went to a C9 university in Xi'an on a business trip, coinciding with the last spring recruitment of the Ministry of Medicine, most of these job search teams are masters, some doctoral and undergraduate students, the team stretches long, at a glance can not see the head, at least more than 100 meters, through their expressions, you can see that they are very anxious.
A C9 recruitment site in Xi'an
According to one of them, Zhang said, he is a master's student who graduated this year, it is very difficult to enter the hospital this year, the competition is too big, and he has submitted a lot of resumes to the third-class hospitals in Shaanxi, Anhui, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places, all of them are sunk into the sea, there is no news, very distressed, can not go to the doctoral study again.
Asked him the reason, he said that it may be caused by the large expansion of clinical specialties in 2020, "By 2023, these expanded students will graduate, there will be no increase in jobs, tens of thousands more master's students, and the hospital will be unable to digest so many graduates for a while." It may also be due to the social environment, didn't the National Bureau of Statistics release the unemployment rate for February in mid-March, which has reached 5.6%, the unemployment rate has not fallen but risen, and some media have reported that 985 liberal arts graduates of colleges and universities have begun to deliver food full-time. ”
The "985 master's student food delivery" mentioned above refers to the life experience of a former senior journalist of Southern Weekend, who as a master of philosophy from Sichuan University, worked as a journalist, but also did the Internet, public relations, etc., has been unemployed for half a year, and now makes a living delivering food, he said that he is 38 years old, has become a young old man over 35 years old, it is difficult to find a job, can only deliver food. It is really sad and ridiculous to be defined as a young old person in the workplace at the age of 35!
This is true for all industries, and the healthcare industry is not immune. In 2023, after the epidemic was lifted, more than 900,000 medical students faced more brutal competition for employment than in previous years. According to the data of relevant recruitment websites, this year, many hospitals with average benefits, their in-service doctors have also begun to move, all want to go to the big hospitals in good cities, have to compete with fresh graduates, which has led to more and more serious academic involution and scientific research involvement, not to mention master's students, even doctoral students are difficult to have an advantage in this year's recruitment war.
One million medical students cross the narrow bridge, and the inflation of academic qualifications has raised the threshold of hospitals, and even county hospitals have clearly required doctoral degrees in the official website notice. In fact, it is impossible for all medical students to become doctors, and clinical students at Fudan University School of Medicine were told by their teachers when they first entered the school that only about 70 of the 200 students in each class would become doctors.
In this job fair of Xi'an C9 University, we interviewed many people, and many masters and doctoral graduates complained to us: "In the eyes of many people, doctors are still an iron rice bowl for package distribution, it's really funny, these people are still living in the last century, now to find a job, especially if you want to find a better job, it is really difficult, in the past, when I was an undergraduate, I always said that I could enter the top three when I was admitted to graduate school, and now I say that I can enter when I get a doctorate, it's all lies, this kind of lie will only make us more meaningless involvement." Since society does not need so many doctors, why recruit so many people every year for the college entrance examination, master's examination, and Bo examination, is it so that we can make plans to change careers in advance? ”
"I studied for 8 years, I don't want to change careers, I want to be a doctor, but why don't the tertiary hospitals want me?" I don't expect the top three in the north to get me in, just ask the ordinary small top three in our prefecture-level city to take me in, but the reality is that the top three in the prefecture-level city don't want us, and the doctors who are all the same have to be doctors from the Qingbei reunion, how can this live? ”
"I studied for 8 years, I don't want to change careers, I want to be a doctor, but why don't the tertiary hospitals want me" This sentence stung the author deeply, I don't know how to answer, I really don't know...
In interviews, more than 70% of graduates said that they could not find a job, or that the job they were looking for was seriously inconsistent with their academic qualifications, and they were forced to give up.
Volume! Reel it! Do you really want to test them all? Take the country naturally?
Studying medicine is a one-way bridge, everyone can see the end, but they don't know if they can get to the end, the probability is that they can't go.
A county hospital once said when recruiting: do not need undergraduates, only 30 doctors, 30 masters. And the proportion of large-scale enrollment of masters and doctors in county hospitals is becoming more and more common. Can clearly tell you, don't feel good for five years and 5 departments, the worst can also go to the county hospital to lie down and run the life, the reality is cruel, with the sinking of a large number of master's students, seize the clinical position that originally belonged to undergraduates, and now it is very difficult for undergraduates to go to the good department of the county hospital.
A doctor's education is indeed worthless, and at the moment, which undergraduate student does not want to enter graduate school? We who are trapped in our academic qualifications do not realize our real predicament, and we cannot get out of it.
In the words of a professor at the School of Computer Science of Xi'an Jiaotong University, "I was really frightened by the proportion of medical students entering graduate school. Can't you get a job without taking the test? What do you want to improve in the postgraduate examination, scientific research ability? Since you want to be a doctor, you can't do it, why bother to take the postgraduate examination, it is unreasonable, fortunately, engineering is not so scary. ”
In all medical schools in the country, the postgraduate examination rate of clinical specialties has reached 90%, and the postgraduate examination rate is about 40%. Many medical students in their fifth year can be said to work hard, interning during the day and studying all night at night to review for graduate school entrance examinations. Compared to internships, they are more willing to do more sets of test papers and read a few more pages of textbooks.
From the official website of Liaoning University
Unfortunately, the entrance examination has not become easier because of the diligence and hard work of the students, but has become more and more difficult. Taking Xiehe as an example, in 2017, more than 340 points can be successfully admitted to the master's degree; And now, more than 370 points are still just a "crimping line" barely enough to reach the school's re-examination qualification, and the re-examination usually has a 220-point ultra-high "single subject line", nearly 20 points higher than before, even if you have passed the school line, a single subject can not pass the single subject line, still no study to read.
Many people said that if they can't get into graduate school, they may eventually enter a pharmaceutical company and become a medical representative, and they will not be able to get involved with doctors for life, which we can't bear to see.
Chen Yan (pseudonym), a 2023 classmate of Anhui Medical University, expressed her opinion to us: "There are too many people who are entering graduate school, I can't wait for everyone to be a graduate student, as long as you still want to be a doctor, if you can't get into graduate school, you have to be lower than others, those good opportunities are all without your share, it's really rolled!" I have known this truth for a long time, so from the beginning of my freshman year, I regarded the exemption from insurance research as a lifesaver, frantically participated in science and technology competitions, followed teachers into the laboratory, issued papers, begged others to add my name when issuing patents, and constantly brushed up grade points. For example, my "Physiology" did not do well in the first test, I took the exam 3 times to get 97 points, and I got a super high grade point of 4.7. ”
After these efforts and the advance layout, fortunately, Chen Yan was qualified to be exempted, and she was still pushed out.
But she doesn't know that even if she goes to graduate school, her future job prospects may not be good.
Cheng Xiannan is a graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, after graduating with a master's degree, because of insufficient education, he could not stay in his affiliated hospital, so he simply studied for a Ph.D., this year is when he graduated with a doctorate, he thought that he could stay smoothly this time, but the hospital told him that if he wanted to stay, in addition to SCI, he had to have his own national nature project, which made him miserable.
The times are really different, I think that back then, a paper with an impact factor of ten could stay in Shanghai's top hospitals, but now there is another national natural fund project, really everything has to rise, and when you have a national nature project, I don't know what more difficult requirements there will be.
Almost frantically, he grumbled, "Why is it so hard to stay? Can anyone tell me? If you want a doctorate, well, I have a Ph.D., and now I want national nature and scientific research results, do you have to force everyone to study for a Ph.D., and everyone to apply for the country naturally in order to give up? ”
We are very afraid that he will have some bad thoughts, and we can only comfort one by one, but what is the use of comfort? The author can't give him the national nature he wants, so I can only grieve with him.
According to the latest "Fresh Graduates Employment Flow Report", more than 60% of graduates are still looking for jobs, only 23% of fresh graduates have signed a contract for employment, and most of them are currently in a very confused and overwhelmed state.
The big three can't enter, the small county can't go back, are we Kong Yiji?
Some people will say, since the third class can't get in, then go to the poor county hospital, grassroots hospital, the third B, the second A these hospitals will definitely accept graduate students, as long as you want to work, there must be work to do, you now say that you can't find a job, it's too pretentious, it's Kong Yiji's robe, can't take it off!
This is heart-wrenching, but are we really Kong Yiji?
Take Cheng Xiannan as an example, his undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studies are all in Shanghai, more than ten years of youth have all been dedicated to Shanghai, living habits are also integrated with Shanghai, and the hukou also falls in Minhang District, Shanghai, how, now do you want to let people go back to their hometown?
In his 30s, his hair began to turn gray, and the knowledge and skills he has learned for more than ten years rely on the big platform of Shanghai Grand Hospital, and when he reaches the doctorate degree, he finally graduates, and it is time to realize his medical ideals, leaving Shanghai, going to second- and third-tier cities, he has no opportunity and platform to show his ambitions, because some surgeries and laboratories, the following cities and hospitals simply cannot provide, his own circle is also in Shanghai, want his own projects and careers to have great development, He can only stay in Shanghai's top three!
Shanghai big hospital can't enter, small county town can't return, this dilemma is a dilemma that many doctors will face, in such a fierce competition, there seems to be no way to resolve.
In addition, for the medical students of the prestigious school 985, the start has exceeded many people, and they are even more reluctant to "backward compatibility", leaving the north of Shanghai and Guangzhou to work as grassroots doctors in the county, they will think that this is "sorry school".
So what to do? Since you can't be a doctor in a big hospital, then you are simply not a doctor, with the halo of 985 schools on your head, why not? Therefore, disheartened after hitting the wall again and again, they chose to go abroad, take public examinations, interprofessional, start a business, choose a transfer, and support three branches and one support. Elite school students are too advantageous to take the civil service examination, as an elite, they have many ways out, and the salary they receive is much more than that of being a doctor.
In fact, the proportion of medical students in prestigious schools who do not practice medicine is much higher than the proportion of ordinary colleges and universities who do not practice medicine, and most of the students in today's medical community are graduates of non-prestigious schools!
So, are we Kong Yiji? Tell you for sure, no! Ten thousand steps back, even if we are Kong Yiji, there is nothing to blame, because everything cannot be blamed on us.
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