"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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| 1995 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1996 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1997 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1999 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2004 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2005 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2006 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2008 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2009 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2011 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2012 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 2014 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2019 | 15 | 1 | 16 |
| 2020 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| 2021 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | 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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General surgery residents have better technical skills and less stress performing complex drills in open fashion over robotic approach. Surg Endosc. 2025 May; 39(5):3298-3306.
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Residency robotic biotissue curriculum: the next frontier in robotic surgical training. HPB (Oxford). 2025 May; 27(5):688-695.
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Surgical excellence in action: The role of vice chair of diversity, equity, and inclusion in a department of surgery. Surgery. 2025 04; 180:109034.
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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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Attitudes of Surgical Trainees and Faculty Towards Parental Leave During Surgical Training. J Surg Educ. 2024 Sep; 81(9):1239-1248.
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The Blue Ribbon Committee II Report and Recommendations on Surgical Education and Training in the United States: 2024. Ann Surg. 2024 Oct 01; 280(4):535-546.
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How to integrate robotic training in surgical residency? An example of a 2-week robotic rotation. J Robot Surg. 2024 May 28; 18(1):225.
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Costs of Care for Operative and Nonoperative Management of Emergency General Surgery Conditions. Ann Surg. 2024 Apr 01; 279(4):684-691.
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Assessment of Demographic Changes of Workforce Diversity in Otolaryngology, 2013 to 2022. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2023 07 01; 149(7):628-635.
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National Cohort Study of Resource Utilization in Older Adults With Emergency General Surgery Conditions. J Surg Res. 2023 10; 290:310-318.