A generalist is a person with a wide array of knowledge on a variety of subjects, useful or not. It may also refer to:
Occupations
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physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...
who provides general health care, as opposed to a medical specialist; see also:
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General practitioner
A general practitioner (GP) is a doctor who is a Consultant (medicine), consultant in general practice.
GPs have distinct expertise and experience in providing whole person medical care, whilst managing the complexity, uncertainty and risk ass ...
, a medical doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients
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Family medicine
Family medicine is a medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. The specialist, who is usually a primary care physician, is ...
, comprehensive health care for people of all ages
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Information Technology Generalist, a technology professional proficient in many facets of information technology without any specific specialty
Biology
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Generalist species
A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different natural resource, resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet (nutrition), diet). A specialist species can ...
, a species which can survive in multiple habitats or eat food from multiple sources
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Generalist Genes Hypothesis, a theory of learning abilities and disabilities
Other
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Jack of all trades, master of none
"Jack of all trades, master of none" is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on only one.
The original version, "a jack of all trades", is often used as a com ...
", a figure of speech about generalists
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multipotentialite, someone having exceptional interest, and talent, in two or more fields.
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Philomath
A philomath () is a lover of learning and studying.
The term is from Greek (; "beloved", "loving", as in philosophy or philanthropy) and , (, ; "to learn", as in polymath).
Philomathy is similar to, but distinguished from, philosophy in that ...
, someone who loves learning
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Polymath
A polymath or polyhistor is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. Polymaths often prefer a specific context in which to explain their knowledge, ...
, someone whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects
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Generalist channel
A generalist channel is a television or radio channel whose target audience is not confined to a particular set of people, but instead aims to offer a wide range of programs and program genres to a diverse general public. The term is mainly used in ...
, a TV or radio channel without a particular target audience
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Encyclopedism
Encyclopedism is an outlook that aims to include a wide range of knowledge in a single work. The term covers both encyclopedias themselves and related genres in which comprehensiveness is a notable feature. The word encyclopedia is a Latinization ...
, an outlook that aims to include a wide range of knowledge in a single work
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Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, economi ...
, the combining of two or more academic disciplines in one activity
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Laity
In religious organizations, the laity () — individually a layperson, layman or laywoman — consists of all Church membership, members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-Ordination, ordained members of religious orders, e ...
, religious group members who are not clerics, sometimes also used metaphorically to describe non-specialists
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Jack of all trades (disambiguation)
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Specialist (disambiguation)
A specialist is someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
Specialist may also refer to:
Occupations
* Specialist (rank), military rank
** Specialist (Singapore)
* Specialist officer, military rank in ...
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