"General Surgery" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.
| Descriptor ID |
D013502
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.810.300
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "General Surgery".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "General Surgery".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "General Surgery" by people in this website by year, and whether "General Surgery" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2004 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2006 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2007 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2008 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2009 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2013 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2014 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2015 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2016 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2017 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2018 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 2020 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2024 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "General Surgery" by people in Profiles.
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Review of "The American College of Surgeons Entering Resident Readiness Assessment" by Park Y.S. Annals of Surgery 2023;277(4):704-711. J Craniofac Surg. 2023 10 01; 34(7):2232.
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Review of "Coaching in Surgical Education" by Louridas M, Sachdeva A, Yuen A, Blair P, MacRae H. Annals of Surgery 2021;275(1):80-84. J Craniofac Surg. 2023 05 01; 34(3):1123.
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Assessing learner engagement with virtual educational events: Development of the Virtual In-Class Engagement Measure (VIEM). Am J Surg. 2021 12; 222(6):1044-1049.
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Independent Operating by General Surgery Residents: An ACS-NSQIP Analysis. J Surg Educ. 2021 Nov-Dec; 78(6):2001-2010.
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Public perceptions of general surgery resident training and assessment. Surgery. 2021 Apr; 169(4):830-836.
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Public Perception of General Surgery Resident Autonomy and Supervision. J Am Coll Surg. 2021 01; 232(1):8-15.e1.
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Perceptions on gender disparity in surgery and surgical leadership: A multicenter mixed methods study. Surgery. 2020 04; 167(4):743-750.
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Effect of Postoperative Permissive Anemia and Cardiovascular Risk Status on Outcomes After Major General and Vascular Surgery Operative Interventions. Ann Surg. 2019 10; 270(4):602-611.
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Implications of Clinical Documentation (In)Accuracy: A Pilot Study Among General Surgery Residents. Hosp Top. 2017 Apr-Jun; 95(2):27-31.
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Rapid assessment of technical competency: the?8-min suture test. J Surg Res. 2016 Jan; 200(1):46-52.