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Overview
General practitioners promote health, identify illness, diagnose and treat physical and mental health problems for patients across ages and many types of concern.
In job descriptions, look for patient consultations, diagnosis, treatment planning, prevention, recovery support, medical records, referrals, follow-up and cooperation with other healthcare staff.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
General practitioner work is built around first-line medical assessment. A day can include patient histories, examinations, diagnosis, treatment choices, prevention advice, records, referrals and follow-up of ongoing health problems.
Skills and specializations
Important depth includes clinical reasoning, communication, broad disease knowledge, mental health awareness, medication review, triage and documentation. The role also needs judgment about when specialist care or urgent assessment is required.
Salary context
Pay context depends on clinical responsibility, appointment volume, continuity of care, supervision duties, service setting and whether the role includes leadership, teaching or out-of-hours work.
Career paths
Experience can develop from broad clinical practice into primary care leadership, teaching, medical quality work, specialist interests or service coordination. Some roles stay strongly patient-facing throughout.
Good to know
Look for the patient group, appointment model, record system, referral routines and support team. Adverts should make clear the balance between planned consultations, acute assessment and long-term follow-up.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context for general practitioner work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 5
Family Medicine Physicians
29-1215.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETGeneral Internal Medicine Physicians
29-1216.00
O*NET occupation is more specific
The O*NET occupation covers a more specific field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETPreventive Medicine Physicians
29-1229.05
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETHospitalists
29-1229.02
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETNurse Practitioners
29-1171.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
Generalist medical practitioners (2211)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/71f09c8b-a172-408c-b9e7-32e580e39ff6 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2211.1 |
| ISCO group | 2211 |
| Concept type | Occupation |