General Surgery

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Reality surgery"--a research ethics perspective on the live broadcast of surgical procedures. 
  • 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • A Comparison of Outcomes and Resource Utilization Between Plastic Surgeons and General Surgeons in Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction. 
  • A Review of Empathy, Its Importance, and Its Teaching in Surgical Training. 
  • A crucial role for surgery in reaching the UN millennium development goals. 
  • A national survey of educational resources utilized by the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons membership. 
  • ACGME duty-hour recommendations - a national survey of residency program directors. 
  • Advanced fellowship training is associated with improved lymph node retrieval in colon cancer resections. 
  • Adverse clinical and economic outcomes attributable to methicillin resistance among patients with Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection. 
  • An Interdisciplinary Approach to Surgical Skills Training Decreases Programmatic Costs. 
  • An analytic decision support tool for resident allocation. 
  • An evaluation of abdominal wall closure in general surgical and gynecological residents. 
  • An evaluation of emergency general surgery transfers and a call for standardization of practices. 
  • Analysis of the SAGES Outcomes Initiative groin hernia database. 
  • Assessing the Magnitude of a Surgical Career Through His Trainees: The John L. Cameron Legacy Factor. 
  • Association between Dysphagia and Surgical Outcomes across the Continuum of Frailty. 
  • Association of postdischarge complications with reoperation and mortality in general surgery. 
  • Attracting students to surgical careers: preclinical surgical experience. 
  • Attrition in general surgery residency: can global and rural surgery shift the paradigm? 
  • Basic science in a department of surgery. 
  • Battlefield to Bedside: Bringing Precision Medicine to Surgical Care. 
  • Behind the surgery doors. A look at what English general practitioners do. 
  • Can this resident be saved? Identification and early intervention for struggling residents. 
  • Certificates of added qualifications in orthopedic surgery. 
  • Characteristics of women surgeons in the United States. 
  • Coaching and mentoring modern surgeons. 
  • Communication practices on 4 Harvard surgical services: a surgical safety collaborative. 
  • Comparison of private versus academic practice for general surgeons: a guide for medical students and residents. 
  • Comparison of the Perspectives of Medical Students and Residents on the Surgery Learning Environment. 
  • Continuity of care in the 80-hour workweek era? 
  • Contributions from surgeons to clinical trials and research on the management of soft tissue sarcoma. 
  • Correlation of Virtual Reality Simulation and Dry Lab Robotic Technical Skills. 
  • Cost and logistics for implementing the American College of Surgeons objective structured clinical examination. 
  • Current practice of abdominal fascial closure: a survey of Ontario general surgeons. 
  • Deficits and variations in patients' experience with making 9 common medical decisions: the DECISIONS survey. 
  • Defining Barriers and Facilitators to Advancement for Women in Academic Surgery. 
  • Determining benchmarks for evaluation and management coding in an academic division of general surgery. 
  • Development and implementation of a formalized geriatric surgery curriculum for general surgery residents. 
  • Disruption in general surgery: Randomized controlled trials and changing paradigms. 
  • Documenting or Operating: Where Is Time Spent in General Surgery Residency? 
  • Does Intentional Support of Degree Programs in General Surgery Residency Affect Research Productivity or Pursuit of Academic Surgery? A Multi-Institutional Study. 
  • Does Perceived Resident Operative Autonomy Impact Patient Outcomes? 
  • Does protected research time during general surgery training contribute to graduates' career choice? 
  • Duty hour recommendations and implications for meeting the ACGME core competencies: views of residency directors. 
  • Editorial comment. 
  • Educational value of the operating room experience during a core surgical clerkship. 
  • Effectiveness of an In-Service Education Program to Improve Patient Safety Directed at Surgical Residents: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Effectiveness of rheumatoid hand surgery: contrasting perceptions of hand surgeons and rheumatologists. 
  • Effects of duty hour restrictions on core competencies, education, quality of life, and burnout among general surgery interns. 
  • Eleventh International Women in Surgery Career Symposium, February 14-16, 2020 Sand Key Resort, Clearwater Florida. 
  • Emergency General Surgery-A Misnomer? 
  • Emergency general surgery: definition and estimated burden of disease. 
  • Entrustable Professional Activities in General Surgery: Trends in Resident Self-Assessment. 
  • Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys. 
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of a mock oral educational program. 
  • Examining the Impact of Using the SIMPL Application on Feedback in Surgical Education. 
  • Experiences of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Among Residents in General Surgery Programs Across the US. 
  • Face and content validation of a novel three-dimensional printed temporal bone for surgical skills development. 
  • Faculty evaluations of resident medical knowledge: can they be used to predict American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination performance? 
  • Features associated with successful recruitment of diverse patients onto cancer clinical trials: report from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. 
  • Gender Differences in Entrustable Professional Activity Evaluations of General Surgery Residents. 
  • Gene delivery systems in surgery. 
  • General Surgery Resident Educational Session Improves Accuracy of Wound Classification. 
  • Global Surgery Pro-Con Debate: A Pathway to Bilateral Academic Success or the Bold New Face of Colonialism? 
  • Global Surgery: Building Healthy Surgical Systems. 
  • Global perspective of paediatric surgery in low and middle income countries. 
  • Global surgery and the World Health Organization: indispensable partners to achieve triple billion goals. 
  • Global surgery initiative in Greece: more than an essential initiative. 
  • Glove perforations in ophthalmic surgery. 
  • Hospital management practices and availability of surgery in sub-Saharan Africa: a pilot study of three hospitals. 
  • I'm a surgeon, not a teammate. 
  • ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM mapping of the AAST Emergency General Surgery disease severity grading systems: Conceptual approach, limitations, and recommendations for the future. 
  • Impact of near-peer teaching rounds on student satisfaction in the basic surgical clerkship. 
  • Implementation of Vulnerable Elders Survey-13 Frailty Tool to Identify At-Risk Geriatric Surgical Patients. 
  • Implementing a hybrid web-based curriculum for an elective medical student clerkship in a busy surgical intensive care unit (ICU): effect on test and satisfaction scores. 
  • Importance of perioperative glycemic control in general surgery: a report from the Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program. 
  • Imposter Syndrome in Surgical Trainees: Clance Imposter Phenomenon Scale Assessment in General Surgery Residents. 
  • Improved surgeon performance in clinical trials: an analysis of quality assurance audits from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. 
  • In reply. 
  • Instituting a Surgical Skills Competition Increases Technical Performance of Surgical Clerkship Students Over Time. 
  • Instructional methods of attendings as exhibited during intraoperative takeovers: A pilot study. 
  • Integrating Postoperative Feedback Into Workflow: Perceived Practices and Barriers. 
  • International surgery and the University of Connecticut experience: lessons from a short-term surgical mission. 
  • Interpreting statistics in medical literature: a vade mecum for surgeons. 
  • Invited commentary. 
  • Laparoscopic resection for colon cancer--the end of the beginning? 
  • Laparoscopy and the internet. A surgeon survey. 
  • Lessons from India in organizational innovation: a tale of two heart hospitals. 
  • Letter to the editor response. 
  • Medical malpractice experience of physicians. Predictable or haphazard? 
  • More thoughts about residents' professionalism education in malpractice. 
  • Multisource Evaluation of Surgeon Behavior Is Associated With Malpractice Claims. 
  • Music and surgery: a literary reappraisal. 
  • Objective Assessment of the Early Stages of the Learning Curve for the Senhance Surgical Robotic System. 
  • Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. 
  • Organizational and physician factors associated with patient enrollment in cancer clinical trials. 
  • Our thoughts: Improving general surgery resident preparedness for dedicated research time. 
  • Patient age and decisions to withhold life-sustaining treatments from seriously ill, hospitalized adults. SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. 
  • Patient and provider characteristics that affect the use of axillary dissection in older women with stage I-II breast carcinoma. 
  • Patient-Centered Outcome Spectrum: An Evidence-based Framework to Aid in Shared Decision-making. 
  • Peer assessment of pediatric surgeons for potential risks of radiation exposure from computed tomography scans. 
  • Perioperative beta blockade in noncardiac surgery: a systematic review for the 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • Personality differences between surgery residents, nonsurgery residents, and medical students. 
  • Physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law: comparing Denmark and the USA. 
  • Pompe disease diagnosis and management guideline. 
  • Postoperative Opioid Prescribing and the Pain Scores on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey. 
  • Practical radiation oncology for surgeons. 
  • Pre-simulation orientation for medical trainees: An approach to decrease anxiety and improve confidence and performance. 
  • Predictors of medical student success on the surgery clerkship. 
  • Preoperative risk factors for carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Preserving David C Sabiston Jr's legacy in medical students' surgical education. 
  • Quantified electronic health record (EHR) use by academic surgeons. 
  • Rational perioperative utilisation and management during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Realistic expectations and leadership in the era of work hour reform. 
  • Reducing Preventable Surgical Cancellations: Improving the Preoperative Anesthesia Interview Process. 
  • Reflections on competency-based education and training for surgical residents. 
  • Reflective Writing for Medical Students on the Surgical Clerkship: Oxymoron or Antidote? 
  • Regionalization of hepatic resections is associated with increasing disparities among some patient populations in use of high-volume providers. 
  • Reply to Letter: Trainee Involvement and Outcomes in Emergency General Surgery: Smoke With No Fire? 
  • Requiem for the general surgeon: the end of an era (Who will repair that hernia now?). 
  • Resident designed intern orientation to address the new ACGME Common Program Requirements for resident supervision. 
  • Resident education in the era of patient safety: a nationwide analysis of outcomes and complications in resident-assisted oncologic surgery. 
  • Response to "Is Trainee Participation Really Associated With Adverse Outcomes in Emergency General Surgery?". 
  • Review of radiation risks from computed tomography: essentials for the pediatric surgeon. 
  • Rural and urban differences in treatment status among children with surgical conditions in Uganda. 
  • See More, Do More, Teach More: Surgical Resident Autonomy and the Transition to Independent Practice. 
  • Self-reported barriers to pediatric surgical care in Guatemala. 
  • Sentinel node skills verification and surgeon performance: data from a multicenter clinical trial for early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Should technical aptitude evaluation become part of resident selection for surgical residency? 
  • Simulation technology for health care professional skills training and assessment. 
  • Size and distribution of the global volume of surgery in 2012. 
  • Sound surgeons. 
  • Standardized, Interdepartmental, Simulation-Based Central Line Insertion Course Closes an Educational Gap and Improves Intern Comfort with the Procedure. 
  • Suggested guidelines for reporting results of Web-based surveys in the Archives. 
  • Supervisor, Colleague, or Assistant: General Surgery Resident Perceptions of Advanced Practitioners. 
  • Surgical Procedure Characteristics and Risk of Sharps-Related Blood and Body Fluid Exposure. 
  • Surgical Training and Education in Promoting Professionalism: a comparative assessment of virtue-based leadership development in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery residents. 
  • Surgical leadership across generations. 
  • Surgical malpractice: myths and realities. 
  • Surgical resident perceptions of trauma surgery as a specialty. 
  • Surgical simulation: a urological perspective. 
  • Surgical trainees in the Duke Physician's Associate program. 
  • Surgical training in Greece: is there a feasible and efficient plan to overcome the Crisis? 
  • Surgical training, duty-hour restrictions, and implications for meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies: views of surgical interns compared with program directors. 
  • Surgical volunteerism as a collaborative teaching activity can benefit surgical residents in low-middle income countries. 
  • Survey of Social Media Use for Surgical Education During Covid-19. 
  • Survey of the US Surgeon Workforce: Practice Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, and Reasons for Leaving Surgery. 
  • Sylvester O'Halloran Surgical Scientific Meeting. March 1997. Abstracts. 
  • Teaching and assessing the ACGME competencies in surgical residency. 
  • Teaching surgical decision-making: an interactive, web-based approach. 
  • The ACGME competencies in the operating room. 
  • The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma uniform grading of hemorrhagic emergency general surgery diseases. 
  • The Changing Demographics of Surgical Trainees in General and Vascular Surgery: National Trends over the Past Decade. 
  • The Critical Portions of Carpal Tunnel Surgery: A Comparison Between Opinions of Surgeons and the General Public. 
  • The Impaired Surgeon. 
  • The Importance of Safety-Net Hospitals in Emergency General Surgery. 
  • The Michigan Surgical Home and Optimization Program is a scalable model to improve care and reduce costs. 
  • The Role of the American Board of Surgery in the Development of Surgical Residencies in Post-World War II America. 
  • The Surgical Personality: Does Surgery Resident Motivation Predict Attrition? 
  • The Surgical Safety Checklist and Teamwork Coaching Tools: a study of inter-rater reliability. 
  • The Wesselhoefts: A medical dynasty from the age of Goethe to the era of nuclear medicine. 
  • The bias against integrated thoracic surgery residency applicants during general surgery interviews. 
  • The business of educating the next generation of surgeons. 
  • The glutamine debate in surgery and critical care. 
  • The initial examination for a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand. 
  • The mediating role of pre-operative patient readiness on surgical outcomes: A structural equation model analysis. 
  • The public's perception of dermatologists as surgeons. 
  • The resident as surgeon: an analysis of ACS-NSQIP. 
  • The top 100 most disruptive publications in academic surgery journals: 1954-2014. 
  • Toronto orthopaedic boot camp III: examining the efficacy of student-regulated learning during an intensive, laboratory-based surgical skills course. 
  • Trainee Involvement in Emergency General Surgery: Is It the Team, or the Players? 
  • Trainee Participation in Emergency Surgery: What Are the Consequences? 
  • Trainee participation is associated with adverse outcomes in emergency general surgery: an analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Transition to Practice: A Global Surgery Approach. 
  • Transmissible agents and the surgeon. 
  • Treatment for the mallet finger injuries of surgeons. 
  • Underrepresented Minorities are Underrepresented Among General Surgery Applicants Selected to Interview. 
  • Underrepresented Minorities in General Surgery Residency: Analysis of Interviewed Applicants, Residents, and Core Teaching Faculty. 
  • Understanding parental refusal of permission for child participation in surgical prospective trials. 
  • Understanding the "Weekend Effect" for Emergency General Surgery. 
  • Use of decision-based simulations to assess resident readiness for operative independence. 
  • Use of error management theory to quantify and characterize residents' error recovery strategies. 
  • Use of patient registries and administrative datasets for the study of pediatric cancer. 
  • Utilizing a novel tool for the comprehensive assessment of resident operative performance. 
  • Validation of a thoracoscopic lobectomy simulator. 
  • Validation of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Risk Model for Patients Undergoing Panniculectomy. 
  • Validation of the Omni: A Novel, Multimodality, and Longitudinal Surgical Skills Assessment. 
  • Validity and reliability of the robotic Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills. 
  • Variation of surgery clerkship grades in US medical schools. 
  • Virtual reality in surgical education. 
  • Volunteerism among surgeons: an exploration of attitudes and barriers. 
  • WISE-MD usage among millennial medical students. 
  • What impact does a specialized center for transplantation and heptobiliary disease have on post-graduate resident training of gastroenterologists and surgeons? 
  • What influences medical students' choice of surgical careers. 
  • What residents know about child abuse. Implications of a survey of knowledge and attitudes. 
  • Which Complications Matter Most? Prioritizing Quality Improvement in Emergency General Surgery. 
  • Will the clinicians support the researchers and teachers? Results of a salary satisfaction survey of 947 academic surgeons. 
  • [Error, stress and teamwork in medicine and aviation. A cross-sectional study]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Chekan, Edward Gerald, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery, Urology