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general-practitioner Occupational skill for the role 'general practitioner' (also: general medical practitioner). Use when the user asks for typical general practitioner work such as: Train residents, medical students, and other health care professionals.; Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.; Order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.

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.

Core workflow

  1. Train residents, medical students, and other health care professionals.
  2. Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
  3. Order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.
  4. Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
  5. Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, or examination results.
  6. Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
  7. Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
  8. Refer patients to medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary.

How to use this skill

Key competences (essential)

  • 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

Hot technologies

  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Epic Systems
  • MEDITECH software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft Excel

Hot technologies

Top tools from 31 gated job ads (see references/market.md, as of 2026-07-12):

  • EPIC EMR โ€” 32 %
  • electronic medical record โ€” 10 %

Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/71f09c8b-a172-408c-b9e7-32e580e39ff6), ONET 30.3 (29-1215.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*