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 (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
who provides general health care, as opposed to a medical specialist; see also:
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General practitioner, 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 within primary care 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 ...
, 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 resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet). A specialist species can thrive only in a narrow range of env ...
, a species which can survive in multiple habitats or eat food from multiple sources
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Generalist Genes Hypothesis The Generalist Genes Hypothesis of learning abilities and disabilities was originally coined in an article by Plomin & Kovas (2005).
The Generalist Genes Hypothesis suggests that most genes associated with common learning disabilities
Learnin ...
, 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 comp ...
", 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 ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific pro ...
, 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. In radio, this is sometime ...
, 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 other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
, the combining of two or more academic disciplines in one activity
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Laity
In religious organizations, the laity () consists of all members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of religious orders, e.g. a nun or a lay brother.
In both religious and wider secular usage, a layperson ...
, 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)
Specialist may refer to:
Occupations
* Specialist (rank), a military rank
** Specialist (Singapore)
* Specialist (arena football)
* Specialist degree, in academia
* Specialty (medicine)
* Designated market maker, in the American stock market
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