"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".
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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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| 1994 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2002 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2003 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 2004 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2005 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2006 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2007 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2008 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2009 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2010 | 14 | 1 | 15 |
| 2011 | 13 | 2 | 15 |
| 2012 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 2014 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 2017 | 12 | 2 | 14 |
| 2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2019 | 9 | 3 | 12 |
| 2020 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2022 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "General Surgery" by people in Profiles.
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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 Oct; 81(10):1446-1451.
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Survey results of COVID-19 pandemic on female surgical trainees: New normal work environment. Surgery. 2024 Sep; 176(3):684-691.
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Beyond grit and resilience: An association of Women Surgeon's series on surgical culture change. Am J Surg. 2024 Jul; 233:152-153.
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Review of "An American Board of Surgery Pilot of Video Assessment of Surgeon Technical Performance in Surgery" by Aurora D. Pryor. Annals of Surgery , 2023;277:591-595. J Craniofac Surg. 2023 Nov-Dec 01; 34(8):2569.
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Survey shows all surgical residents have exposure to robotic surgery yet no formalized curricula exist amongst programs: A Southwest Surgical Congress Survey. Am J Surg. 2023 12; 226(6):878-881.
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Virtual Mentoring: A Novel Approach to Facilitate Medical Student Applications to General Surgery Residency. J Surg Educ. 2023 05; 80(5):726-730.
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The future of surgical technique publication at JCRS and JCRO. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2022 08 01; 48(8):875-876.
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ASO Author Reflections: Technical Standards for Cancer Surgery: From "How I Do It" to "How We Do It". Ann Surg Oncol. 2022 10; 29(11):6559-6560.