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General practitioner / primary care doctor — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Emergency Medicine Physicians · Pediatricians, General · General Internal Medicine Physicians · Obstetricians and Gynecologists · Pediatric Surgeons · Physician Assistants · Psychiatrists · Cardiologists
In the official classification#
Family Medicine Physicians
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 5: extensive preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 29-1215.00 (Family Medicine Physicians). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Complex Problem SolvingVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- Time ManagementVery important
- Social PerceptivenessVery important
- Service OrientationVery important
- InstructingImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- PersuasionImportant
Knowledge
- Medicine and DentistryExtremely important
- English LanguageExtremely important
- Therapy and CounselingExtremely important
- PsychologyVery important
- BiologyVery important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
Work activities
- Assisting and Caring for OthersExtremely important
- Documenting/Recording InformationExtremely important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeExtremely important
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for OthersVery important
Abilities
- Problem SensitivityExtremely important
- Oral ComprehensionExtremely important
- Oral ExpressionExtremely important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Inductive ReasoningVery important
Essential skills
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- Active ListeningVery important
- WritingVery important
- SpeakingVery important
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 3 backed by a verified event, 2 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.