General surgery
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General surgery, despite its name, is a surgical specialty that focuses on surgical treatment of abdominal organs, e.g. intestines including esophagus, stomach, colon, liver, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland (depending on the availability of head and neck surgery specialists) and hernias.
In Australia, Canada, the US and the UK, general surgeons are responsible for breast care, including the surgical treatment of breast cancer. In most other countries, breast care falls under Obstetrics and Gynecology and its sub-specialty of Mastology (or Senology).
In the last few years minimally invasive surgery has become more and more important. Considerable enthusiasm has built around robotic surgery (or, more accurately, robotic-assisted surgery), despite the scant data currently available failing to show real benefit.
[edit] Training
To become a fully licenced general surgeon, one has to complete medical school (typically four years in North America) and a residency program in general surgery (typically five years in North America).
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ko:일반외과 pl:Chirurgia ogólna pt:Cirurgia geral tr:Genel cerrahi To become a surgeon in Malaysia, you Have to have an FRCS,or FRACS or a join a local Masters in Surgery Program(4 Years)in one of the Malaysian Universities.
