In the afternoons and evenings, students are free to study. In this way, Tang Boqiang, like all the students in the school, did not dare to sleep lazily every afternoon, and even got up early to study in the classroom on time, until dinner time, everyone would leave their schoolbags in the seats they sat in the afternoon to "occupy a place", no one would ever lose their schoolbags, and no one would move other people's schoolbags. This has become a rule in Huaxia Medical College: if you want to get what you want, you must give more than others.

Whether it is in the afternoon or evening, the students who study by themselves in the classroom are very quiet, no one dares to talk and chat in the classroom, and if there is something, they quietly get up from their seats and walk out of the classroom before talking. There is never a teacher who cares whether you study or not, but if you encounter a problem, you can go to the corresponding department, where there must be a teacher doing experiments or writing articles, and no teacher will refuse a student who comes to ask questions. Of course, if you don't want to study, you can choose to play in the dormitory or go out, in the eyes of outsiders, this school is very free, but very few students in such an atmosphere dare to enjoy such freedom.

Huaxia Medical College students come from all over the country, and most of the students learn very little English knowledge before entering the school, and only students who are in big cities have the opportunity to study the English courses in their middle school in their entirety during their secondary school years.

Students like Tang Boqiang, who have only learned 26 English letters in middle school, abound. After entering university, English is equivalent to a course from scratch for most students, and it is difficult to learn a language from scratch at this age. Naturally, English classes have become one of the most time-consuming but less effective "hard-core" courses that everyone recognizes.

For medical students who specialize in Western medicine, the importance of English cannot be overstated. There is no way out, no one chooses to escape or retreat, everyone rises to the challenge. In addition to the heavy professional courses, everyone tries to find time to learn English, even those who have a good foundation in English.

Tang Boqiang's language ability was already very average, and he happened to be in the downturn of his life, so learning English naturally consumed a lot of his time. He often carries his textbooks, reference books, and English dictionaries with him, even when he wakes up early in the morning and reads English aloud to the big sports field with many, many classmates. Despite this, Tang Boqiang can only barely keep up with the rhythm of the class, cope with every exam, and never achieve good results. And Tang Boqiang knows very well that being able to do this is already his limit, and it is difficult or even impossible to go further, which will inevitably make Tang Boqiang feel frustrated.

What comforted Tang Boqiang was that with his always strong memory and comprehension, although his English listening and speaking skills were very poor, his "dumb English" made him not too far behind in reading comprehension. This ability has greatly helped him in his professional studies, promotion examinations, and reading English literature when conducting professional scientific research.

Every student studying at Huaxia Medical College is very concerned about their academic performance, because the results of each subject are not only able to reflect their learning ability, but also closely related to the distribution at the time of graduation in the future. For the affiliated hospitals of Huaxia Medical College, the annual recruitment target is definitely the strongest and most convincing criterion for academic performance.

Therefore, when the mid-term or final exams of each subject are released, everyone rushes to see the report card posted on the bulletin board in front of the teacher's office in the dormitory, and secretly calculates in their minds what position their grades can be ranked in the grade. This tacit move is taken for granted and considered reasonable and understandable.

In the three years of studying the basic course of medicine, the most impressive and difficult course for Tang Boqiang and his classmates was the course "Human Anatomy".

Human anatomy is the foundation of the foundations of learning Western medicine. Only when the human anatomy is well learned can the future clinical course be carried out smoothly. Because of this, the teachers' requirements for this course can be described as "rigorous". The discipline of human anatomy is also the strength of Huaxia Medical College, and the textbook "Human Anatomy" in Tang Boqiang's hand and published by the People's Medical Publishing House was edited by Huaxia Medical College.

The level of several teachers in the anatomy department can be described as "great god" level. In the first theory class, the teacher in front of the blackboard, holding a piece of chalk of different colors in each hand, and the chalk in both hands danced and flew on the blackboard at the same time. After a while, a lifelike human anatomy diagram on the blackboard, the chest cavity and abdominal cavity were opened, and various organs were clearly exposed, appeared on the blackboard, and none of the left and right organs were missing, and the position was not bad at all, and the students sitting below were so surprised that only their mouths were left wide open. What kind of kung fu is this? Without training day and night, without extraordinary talent, it would be impossible to do this. With such a teacher, it is very important that there is no need to do any anatomy class, and everyone must learn anatomy class well and so on. A god-like teacher can use two pieces of chalk to achieve this god-like mobilization and agitation effect.

But yes, however, the human body is simply too complex. The stomach and the crooked intestines connected to it are not difficult at all, and it can even be said to be the easiest place to learn. If we talk about more than 200 bones, the joints connected to each other, what muscles contract causes what joints to move, what nerves innervate the muscles, where do these nerves come from, and what blood vessels supply neuronutrients...... That's what complications are called. It's so complicated, there's so much to memorize, there's so much to understand. Tang Boqiang studied hard with other classmates, and after half a semester, he still felt foggy.

Just when Tang Boqiang and his classmates were concentrating on learning human anatomy, a very painful and embarrassing disease quietly launched an "attack" on Tang Boqiang.

It was summer when I was studying human anatomy, and the weather was unusually hot. Tang Boqiang, like every student, sits in the classroom every day in addition to class, most of the rest of the time sits in the classroom to read the anatomical atlas, memorize all kinds of muscles, bones, joints, blood vessels, and headache-inducing nerve directions, sources, and so on. Because he was too involved and sat for too long, Tang Boqiang had purulent nodules on his buttocks. Tang Boqiang didn't think about it at first, thinking that like when he was a child, this small abscess would disappear soon except for a little pain. But this time Tang Boqiang was wrong, because the cause of the sores was not improved, and the abscess finally got bigger and bigger and finally ruptured on its own, oozing pus and blood, which made Tang Boqiang painful and embarrassed. The pain is that this purulent infection has caused Tang Boqiang to start to have a fever and the abscess is more painful because of the inflammation, as long as the slightest touch will make Tang Boqiang unbearable pain; The embarrassment was because Tang Boqiang could no longer maintain a normal sitting posture at this time, because once he pressed it down, what came out was pus and blood and unbearable pain. The clever Tang Boqiang thought of a clumsy but effective solution, using several thick medical textbooks on both sides of the seat, the width of which was just the place on both sides of the buttocks where there were no abscesses, so that Tang Boqiang could sit down and let the abscess part hang in the air without being compressed. Of course, this is only a way to alleviate the pain, and ultimately medication is required.

For nearly two weeks, Tang Boqiang had to go to the school infirmary every afternoon to inject penicillin and apply a special ointment specially made by the school infirmary, and his condition was quickly controlled and gradually improved.

Despite the hard work of everyone studying this difficult but vital subject, the results of the mid-term exam were much more than all the students expected, and the results of this exam were also the worst in the five-year study career of the Class of '79.

According to the paper scores, more than 80% of the students should fail, and the scores are surprisingly low, Tang Boqiang's score is 49 points. The highest score in the whole grade is more than 70 points, and this highest score appeared in an authentic female student in Tang Boqiang's second class. Saying that she is a top student is not in vain. Her entrance examination score is the highest in her grade, and her scores in each subject have always been at the top of her grade. It's just that Tang Boqiang has never been in contact with girls, and he is in a whole group class (a total of 4 small classes) in class, so before the internship, Tang Boqiang has never had the opportunity to see the true face of this female student.

After the results came out, the whole grade boiled. Everyone complains that the questions are too difficult, and this distribution of grades is obviously not in line with the distribution of grades that should be in the difficulty of normal questions. The teachers in the anatomy department also knew that this was unfair to the students in this grade, so they lowered the passing grade to all students with a score of 40 or more. Despite this, there are still many students who score below 40, but the situation is much better than before, and the tense hearts of the students have been relaxed, and everyone is pinning their hopes on the final exam.

After this examination, the laboratories of the anatomy department began to be overcrowded. From the time the doors open at 8 a.m. to the time the lights go out at night, groups of students come in turn, because they know that learning anatomy is like becoming a doctor in the future, practice is the most important, and rote memorization can only serve as the "assistant" of practice.

After staying in the laboratory of the anatomy department for a long time, once you return to the dormitory, every student exudes a strong smell of formalin. During that time, the minds of the students were occupied by all parts of the human specimens, and some students once said that since they learned dissection, they did not want to eat pork for nearly a month, because when they saw the meat, they would feel nauseous and uncomfortable when they thought of the muscles on the specimens in the dissection room. You can imagine how much effort and price the students have paid in order to learn anatomy well, in order to learn the most basic course in this medical course.

As with everything in the world, what is due will always come on time, and there is never a no-show. The final exam of human anatomy is finally coming, and a few days before the exam, everyone is like crazy to read and memorize various human body structures, and go to the dissection room to look at specimens, because in addition to the theoretical part of the exam, students also have to point out the structure that needs to be explained on the cadaver specimen and the functions related to it. Yes, although everyone did not do well in the midterm exam, the teacher will not lower the requirements because of this.

Fortunately, Tang Boqiang's abscess had healed before the exam and he could sit and walk normally. After answering the theoretical part, and then answering the practical part before the specimen, Tang Boqiang felt much better than the midterm exam, at least at the moment he walked out of the classroom, he was steady.

In the end, the results were basically as Tang Boqiang wished, although the score was not high, but it still maintained this tepid midstream state. Despite this, two students in the whole grade still stepped into the "ice cave" that failed.