"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
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.810.300
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
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.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2006 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "General Surgery" by people in Profiles.
-
Hanson MN, Hughes D, Alseidi A, Bittner JG, Romanelli J, Vassiliou M, Feldman LS, Asbun H. The joy of surgery: how gender influences surgeons' experiences. Surg Endosc. 2024 Aug; 38(8):4624-4632.
-
Ricard C, Plewa D, Vernamonti J, Scott EM, Nepomnayshy D, Benoit E. Needs Assessment for a Resuscitative Thoracotomy Curriculum for General Surgery Residents in the Northeast Region. J Surg Educ. 2023 12; 80(12):1843-1849.
-
Fan EY, Crawford AS, Judelson DR, Aiello FA, Jones DW, Schanzer A, Simons JP. Trends in General Surgery Operative Experience Obtained by Integrated Vascular Surgery Residents. J Surg Educ. 2021 Nov-Dec; 78(6):2127-2137.
-
Hill SS, Dore FJ, Em ST, McLoughlin RJ, Crawford AS, Sturrock PR, Maykel JA, Alavi K, Davids JS. Twitter Use Among Departments of Surgery With General Surgery Residency Programs. J Surg Educ. 2021 Jan-Feb; 78(1):35-42.
-
Leung B, Knee A, Wu J, Fernandez G, Seymour NE, Al-Mansour MR. Senior General Surgery Resident Confidence in Performing Abdominal Wall Hernia Repairs. J Surg Res. 2020 08; 252:174-182.
-
Feld LD, Rao VL. Code Status Reversal for Do-Not-Resuscitate Patients Undergoing Invasive Procedures: Current Practices and Beliefs of Medical and Surgical Residents. J Palliat Med. 2019 09; 22(9):1024-1025.
-
Garstka M, Honda M, Crowther J, Hess A, Schroll R, Killackey M, DuCoin C. Effect of Community and Academic Surgical Rotation Sites on Medical Student Performance Outcomes and Career Choices. J Surg Educ. 2019 Jul - Aug; 76(4):970-974.
-
Pepper VK, Thirumoorthi A, Munoz A, Vannix R, Baerg J, Hernandez B, Tagge E. Surgery Residents and Family Dynamics: Are Our Trainees Equipped to Handle Patient Care Beyond Disease? Am Surg. 2018 Oct 01; 84(10):1551-1554.
-
Lidor A, Telem D, Bower C, Sinha P, Orlando R, Romanelli J. SAGES quality initiative: an introduction. Surg Endosc. 2017 08; 31(8):3072-3077.
-
Gardner AK, Steffes CP, Nepomnayshy D, Nicholas C, Widmann WD, Fitzgibbons SC, Dunkin BJ, Jones DB, Paige JT. Selection bias: Examining the feasibility, utility, and participant receptivity to incorporating simulation into the general surgery residency selection process. Am J Surg. 2017 Jun; 213(6):1171-1177.