Generalist
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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
- a physician who provides general health care, as opposed to a medical specialist; see also:
- General practitioner, a medical doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients
- Family medicine, comprehensive health care for people of all ages
- Information Technology Generalist, a technology professional proficient in many facets of information technology without any specific specialty
Biology
- Generalist species, a species which can survive in multiple habitats or eat food from multiple sources
- Generalist Genes Hypothesis, a theory of learning abilities and disabilities
Other
- "Jack of all trades, master of none", a figure of speech about generalists
- a multipotentialite, someone having many exceptional talents
- Philomath, someone who loves learning
- Polymath, someone whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects
- Generalist channel, a TV or radio channel without a particular target audience
See also
- Encyclopedism, an outlook that aims to include a wide range of knowledge in a single work
- Interdisciplinarity, the combining of two or more academic disciplines in one activity
- Laity, religious group members who are not clerics, sometimes also used metaphorically to describe non-specialists
- Jack of all trades (disambiguation)
- Specialist (disambiguation)