BACKGROUND The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) has recently developed and announced its Masters Program that aims to address existing needs of practicing surgeons for lifelong learning and consists of eight clinical pathways each containing three anchoring procedures. The objective of this study was to select the seminal articles for each anchoring procedure of these pathways using a systematic methodology. METHODS A systematic literature search of Web of Science was conducted for the most cited articles for each of the anchoring procedures of the SAGES Masters pathways. The most relevant identified articles were then reviewed by expert members of the relevant SAGES pathway committees and task forces and the seminal articles chosen for each anchoring procedure using expert consensus. RESULTS 578 highly cited articles were identified by the original search of the literature and the seminal articles were selected for each anchoring procedure after expert review and consensus. Articles address procedural outcomes, disease pathophysiology, and surgical technique and are presented in this paper. CONCLUSIONS We have identified seminal articles for each anchoring procedure of the SAGES Masters program pathways using a systematic methodology. These articles provide surgeon participants of this program with a great resource to improve their procedure-specific knowledge and may further benefit the larger surgical community by focusing its attention to must-read impactful work that may inform best practices.

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SAGES 硕士课程：确定每个途径的开创性文章。

背景美国胃肠和内窥镜外科医生协会 (SAGES) 最近开发并宣布了其硕士课程，旨在解决执业外科医生对终身学习的现有需求，该课程由八个临床路径组成，每个路径包含三个锚定程序。本研究的目的是使用系统方法为这些途径的每个锚定程序选择开创性文章。方法 对 SAGES Masters 途径的每个锚定程序中被引用次数最多的文章进行 Web of Science 的系统文献搜索。然后，相关 SAGES 通路委员会和工作组的专家成员审查了最相关的确定文章，并使用专家共识为每个锚定程序选择了开创性文章。结果 578 篇高被引文章通过文献的原始搜索确定，并在专家评审和共识后为每个锚定程序选择了开创性文章。文章涉及程序结果、疾病病理生理学和手术技术，并在本文中介绍。结论 我们使用系统方法确定了 SAGES 硕士课程路径的每个锚定程序的开创性文章。这些文章为该计划的外科医生参与者提供了丰富的资源，以提高他们的特定手术知识，并可能通过将注意力集中在可能为最佳实践提供信息的必读有影响力的工作上，从而进一步造福更大的外科社区。