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General Practitioners

Medical

  • Average Salary

    RM2700 - RM 3900

  • Career Trends

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  • Compability

What is General Practitioners?

General practitioners (GPs) provide primary and continuing medical care for patients in the community. They take account of physical, emotional and social factors when diagnosing illness and recommending the required treatment. GPs also refer patients to hospital clinics for further assessment or treatment and may run specialist clinics within the practice for patients with specific conditions.

Minimum education level

 

PT3

SPM

STPM

Diploma

Degree

Average Salary

RM2700 - RM 3900

Example of a Job Position

General Practitioner
Doctor

Task

? Rresponding to medical/health problems presented by patients including history taking, diagnosis, investigation, treatment and referral as appropriate; ? Maintaining confidentiality and impartiality; ? Commissioning healthcare by liaising with medical professionals in the community and hospitals; ? Promoting health education in conjunction with other health professionals; ? Organising preventative medical programmes for individual patients; ? Providing specialist clinics for specific conditions or for certain groups, eg diabetes, smoking cessation and new babies; ? Meeting targets set by the government for specific treatments, such as child immunisations; ? Discussing the development of new pharmaceutical products with pharmaceutical sales representatives; ? Managing resources to handle targets as effectively as possible, for example, using the NHS e-Referral Service; ? Using IT skills - some practices have one partner who specialises in the use of IT within the practice but all will be expected to ? Have basic abilities for work, such as maintaining patients' records using specific packages; ? Keeping up to date with medical developments, new drugs, treatments and medications, including complementary medicine; ? Observing and assessing the work of trainee GPs and medical students and teaching at medical schools or hospitals; ? Maintaining a portfolio of continuing professional development (CPD) activities

Knowledge

Psychology

Knowledge of human performance and behavior; differences in individual abilities, personalities and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

English

Knowledge of the structure and content of English, including the meaning and spelling of each word, composition rules, and grammar.

Therapy and Counseling

Knowledge of principles, methods and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunction, as well as providing career guidance.

Medical Science and Dentistry

Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human wounds, diseases, and deformities. These include symptoms, alternative treatments, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health measures

Biology

Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, function, interdependence, and their interactions with the environment and each other.

Skills

Active Listening

Give full attention to the words of others, set aside time to understand the points presented, ask questions appropriately, and not interrupt at the wrong time

Talking

Talk to others to convey information effectively

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to the problems handled

Consideration and Decision Making

Consider the shortcomings and advantages of potential action choices to choose the most appropriate action.

Reading Understanding

Understand sentences and paragraphs written in work documents.

Capability

  • 1

    Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas when speaking, so that others can understand what is being conveyed

  • 2

    Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to certain problems in order to produce reasonable answers.

  • 3

    Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules and conclusions (including finding relationships between seemingly unconnected events).

  • 4

    Oral Understanding - The ability to listen and understand information and ideas conveyed through words and oral sentences

  • 5

    Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or maybe wrong. This does not involve solving the problem, only knowing if there is a problem.

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