General Surgery is a discipline of surgery having a central core of knowledge embracing anatomy, physiology, and metabolism, wound healing, intensive care which are common to all surgical specialties.
A student studying General Studies acquires specialized knowledge and experience related to the diagnosis, preoperative, operative, and postoperative management, including the management of complications, in nine primary components of surgery, all of which are essential to the education of a broadly based surgeon.
After specialization, the students can choose on to become cardiothoracic surgeon, general surgeon, neurosurgeon, plastic surgeons, urology surgeon etc.
