"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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| Concept/Terms |
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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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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2003 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2004 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2006 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2007 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2008 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2009 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2012 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2014 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2015 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2016 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2017 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2018 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2020 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2022 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2024 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "General Surgery" by people in Profiles.
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Establishing best practices guidelines for collaborative research in global surgery: developing a Delphi survey. J Glob Health. 2025 09 05; 15:04237.
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Characterizing the General Surgery Experience of Future Breast Surgeons: A Multi-institutional Study from the US ROPE Consortium. Ann Surg Oncol. 2025 Oct; 32(11):8340-8348.
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Enhancing Perceptions of Social Support and Belonging in Surgery Residency Programs. J Surg Educ. 2025 09; 82(9):103612.
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Authorship Trends and Gender Concordance in Surgical Research. J Surg Res. 2025 Aug; 312:148-154.
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Assessment of the National Institutes of Health Salary Cap Gap Reveals the Increasing Financial Burden of Training and Hiring Surgeon-Scientists. Ann Surg. 2025 Sep 01; 282(3):460-471.
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What Are the Top 5 Things Surgical Trainees Should Consider When Caring for Patients Who Are Incarcerated? AMA J Ethics. 2025 Apr 01; 27(4):E269-276.
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Fidelity in Academic Global Surgery and Research: Incorporating Trustworthiness in the Development of Research Partnerships, Infrastructure, and Policy. J Am Coll Surg. 2024 Oct 01; 239(4):400-409.
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Sustaining Lifelong Competency of Surgeons: Multimodality Empowerment Personal and Institutional Strategy. J Am Coll Surg. 2024 Aug 01; 239(2):187-189.
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An Ethical Framework for Disclosing the Training Status and Roles of Resident-Level Surgeons to Patients. J Surg Educ. 2024 10; 81(10):1446-1451.
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Survey results of COVID-19 pandemic on female surgical trainees: New normal work environment. Surgery. 2024 09; 176(3):684-691.