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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 exceptional interest, and talent, in two or more fields.
• 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)

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