general practitioner
General practitioners promote health, prevent, identify ill health, diagnose and treat diseases and promote recovery of physical and mental illness and health disorders of all kinds for all persons regardless of their age, sex or type of health problem.
Also called: general medical practitioner
- 10
- essential skills
- 46
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 2211
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
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Essential skills
10- assess physical conditions of clients
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- monitor children's physical development
- operate open source software
- provide healthcare services to patients in general medical practice
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
Optional skills
46- address side effects of menopause
- administer immunotherapy
- advise on poisoning incidents
- advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling
- analyse X-ray imagery
- apply blended learning
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- browse, search and filter data, information and digital content
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct health related research
- conduct research across disciplines
- contribute to public health campaigns
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate data, information and digital content
- evaluate research activities
- identify digital competence gaps
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact through digital technologies
- manage a healthcare unit budget
- manage a multidisciplinary team involved in patient care
- manage data, information and digital content
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- mentor individuals
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- protect health and well-being while using digital technologies
- protect personal data and privacy
- provide care for a particular patient group
- publish academic research
- speak different languages
- supervise medical residents
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- teach medicine
- treat medical conditions of elderly people
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- write scientific publications
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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