Job Duties for General practitioners and family physicians
- Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures and consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Perform and assist in routine surgery
- Provide emergency care
- Provide acute care management
- Vaccinate patients to prevent and treat diseases
- Deliver babies and provide pre-natal and post-natal care
- Advise patients and their families on health care including health promotion, disease, illness and accident prevention
- Provide counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues
- Perform patient advocacy role
- Co-ordinate or manage primary patient care
- Provide continuous care to patients
- Supervise home care services
- Report births, deaths, and contagious and other diseases to governmental authorities.
Working Conditions for General practitioners and family physicians
Work is performed at a medical clinic or at patient homes when on an out-call. Exposure to ill people requires ample attention to both personal safety and the safety of the patient. Workers are usually on-call for patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; this may be physically and mentally taxing.
Alternate Job Titles
- Civil Aviation Medical Officer
- Community Preventive Medicine Physician
- Company Physician
- Doctor Of Medicine (MD)
- Family Doctor
- Family Physician
- Family Practitioner
- General Practice Intern
- General Practice Physician
- General Practice Resident
- General Practitioner (GP)
- GP (general Practitioner)
- Industrial Medical Officer
- Industrial Medicine Physician
- Industrial Physician
- Locum Doctor
- MD (doctor Of Medicine)
- Medical Doctor
- Medical Missionary
- Medical Officer Of Health (MOH)
- Missionary Doctor
- MOH (medical Officer Of Health)
- Physician Resident
- Primary Care Physician
- Public Health Physician
- Resident
- Resident Physician
- Family Physician
- General Practice Resident
- General Practitioner (GP)
- Medical Doctor
- Community Preventive Medicine Physician
- Medical Missionary