GP (general practitioner)

Education

Bachelor's degree.

Tasks

• Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals.
• Examine patients' health condition to identify diseases and injuries.
• Help patients develop healthy habits, break old habits and reshape their approach to wellness.
• Prescribe and administer medications and treatments.
• Deliver babies and provide pre-natal and post-natal care.
• Advise patients on health care.
• Report births, deaths, contagious and other diseases to government authorities.
• Co-ordinate or manage primary patient care.
• Provide acute care management.
• Provide counselling and support to patients and their families on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues.
• Provide emergency care.
• Supervise home care services.

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

• College of Family Physicians Certi...