"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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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2011 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2012 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2021 | 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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Leadership skills curriculum development for residents and fellows: A needs-assessment. Am J Surg. 2021 Dec; 222(6):1079-1084.
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US Medical Licensing Exam Performance and American Board of Surgery Qualifying and Certifying Examinations. J Am Coll Surg. 2021 12; 233(6):722-729.
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Resident-Driven Wellness Initiatives Improve Resident Wellness and Perception of Work Environment. J Surg Res. 2021 02; 258:8-16.
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Surgical Ethics: How I Teach It. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 12; 110(6):1805-1808.
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Acute Workplace Hazards in Orthopedic Surgery: Resident Survey Regarding Splash and Workplace Violence Events. J Surg Educ. 2020 Nov - Dec; 77(6):1638-1645.
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Thiel's embalming method with additional intra-cerebral ventricular formalin injection (TEIF) for cadaver training of head and brain surgery. Anat Sci Int. 2020 Sep; 95(4):564-570.
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Teaching Surgical Model Development in Research by Using Situated Learning and Instructional Scaffolding. J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci. 2019 05 01; 58(3):321-328.
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A Program for Promoting Clinical Scholarship in General Surgery. J Surg Educ. 2018 Jul - Aug; 75(4):854-860.
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The Cost of Depression-Related Presenteeism in Resident Physicians. Acad Psychiatry. 2018 Feb; 42(1):84-87.
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Open abdominal surgical training differences experienced by integrated vascular and general surgery residents. J Vasc Surg. 2017 10; 66(4):1280-1284.