"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".
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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 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 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 | 0 | 9 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "General Surgery" by people in Profiles.
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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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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.
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Outcomes after emergency general surgery and trauma care in incarcerated individuals: An EAST multicenter study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 07 01; 93(1):75-83.
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Development of a Two-Week Dedicated Robotic Surgery Curriculum for General Surgery Residents. J Surg Educ. 2022 Jul-Aug; 79(4):861-866.
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Experiences of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Among Residents in General Surgery Programs Across the US. JAMA Surg. 2021 10 01; 156(10):942-952.
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Outcomes of the First Virtual General Surgery Certifying Exam of the American Board of Surgery. Ann Surg. 2021 09 01; 274(3):467-472.
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Structuring Research Rotations to Facilitate Surgery Residents' Academic Productivity. J Surg Educ. 2022 Jan-Feb; 79(1):31-34.