General Practitioner

**Work setting**:

- Hospital (staff position)
- Rural area

**Tasks**:

- Examine patients and take their histories, order laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures
- Consult with other medical practitioners to evaluate patients' physical and mental health
- Prescribe and administer medications and treatments
- Advise patients on health care
- Communicate health promotion, disease, illnes and accident prevention to patients
- Provide acute care management
- Provide emergency care

**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities

**Specialization in family practice**:

- Emergency medicine
- Rural medicine

**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- Child Abuse Registry check
- Eligible for professional liability insurance
- Basic security clearance
- Adult Abuse Registry check

**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Manual dexterity
- Repetitive tasks
- Large caseload
- Large workload

**Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics

**Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Disability benefits

**Long term benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Other benefits
- Pension plan