General practitioner - Salary, Career

How much does an General practitioner earn

A General practitioner earns between $3.132 and $23.249 per month, with an average monthly salary of $10.509 and a median salary of $9.545 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 1.421 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).

Salary ranges for the General practitioner
	Monthly Salary	Annual Salary	Salary Per Week	Hourly Salary
Average wage	10.509	126.107	2.627	74
1º Quartile	3.132	37.588	783	22
Median Salary	9.545	114.543	2.386	67
3º Quartile	17.730	212.765	4.433	124
Higher Salary	23.249	278.984	5.812	163

Professional job categories

Science and arts professionals
- professionals of biological sciences, health
- - medical professionals
- - - clinical doctors

Related Positions:

Main workplaces

Clinical doctors the positions of this CBO family exercise their functions in sectors whose activities refer to health and social services, teaching, research and development. In general, they work on their own, as self-employed, without permanent supervision. They are organized individually and in a work team, developing activities in closed environments, during irregular working hours. Exception made is professionals who work in the Family Health Strategy Program, where they perform their duties as employees, with occasional supervision and fulfill the weekly workload provided for in a specific Ordinance. They may work in uncomfortable positions for long periods and, due to the nature and level of responsibility inherent in the role, may be subject to constant stress. In some occupations, professionals may be subject to the action of toxic, chemical, radioactive and biological materials.

What does it take to work in the field of Clinical doctors

These occupations are performed by professionals with higher education in Medicine, accredited by the Regional Council of Medicine (CRM). The full exercise of functions takes place after a period of one to two years of professional experience and three to four years for the anthroposophic doctor. For the exercise of the function in the Family Health Strategy Program, no previous experience is necessary.

Functions and activities of General practitioner

Clinical doctors must:

coordinating health programs and services;

perform medical expertise, audits and investigations;

perform medical consultation and care;

implement health promotion actions;

difusing medical knowledge;

implementing health promotion actions;

demonstrate personal skills;

promoting family health;

diffusion medical knowledge;

spreading medical knowledge;

perform expertise, audits and medical inquiries;

perform investigations, audits and medical inquiries;

coordinate health programs and services;

treat patients and clients;

perform medical consultation and assistance;

perform medical consultation and service;

diffusion of medical knowledge;

treating patients and clients;

perform medical expertise, audits and inquiries;

elaborate medical documents;

perform consultation and medical assistance;

promote family health;

Activities

issue declarations;

establishing prognosis;

prepare research projects;

perform an active search for local situations;

define actions according to local priorities;

follow the user's therapeutic plan;

promote vector and zoonosis control actions;

supervise health team;

perform complementary exams;

evaluate biographical moment;

remove organs and tissues;

supervise instrumental workup;

prescribe hygienic-dietary measures;

supervise medical training;

indicating the need for hospitalization;

setting up a scale of services;

participate in planning activities;

demonstrate ability to work in a team;

indicate treatment;

archive documents;

identify users' needs;

setting up a service schedule;

participate in the management of inputs;

formulate expert questions;

evaluate expert knowledge;

assisting the regulation of medical activities;

participate in association boards, professional associations and health councils;

manage financial resources;

supervise instrumental propaedeutics;

supervise medical acts;

elaborate image documents;

interpret data from clinical examination and complementary exams;

implementing environmental health measures;

manage urgent and emergency situations;

perform treatment with biological agents;

discuss diagnosis, prognosis and treatment with patients, clients, guardians and family members;

issuing certificates;

establishing a health action plan;

demonstrate medical actions;

monitor health status of hospitalized patients;

interpret clinical examination data and complementary exams;

assisting childbirth;

collect testimonials;

indicating non-drug therapies;

stimulating the patient to develop autonomy and self-care;

notify diseases, injuries and situations of local importance;

issue opinions;

promote health campaigns;

guarding organs and tissues;

perform home visits;

developing procedures;

monitor the user's therapeutic plan;

encouraging community participation;

demonstrate altruism;

updating registration information;

monitor the health status of hospitalized patients;

elaborate informative and normative material;

participate in meetings, congresses and other scientific events;

perform community health diagnosis;

performing gene therapy;

participate in team evaluations;

perform treatment with physical agents;

setting up service schedule;

participate in continuing education activities;

organizing scientific meetings;

perform hospital visits;

elaborate reports;

prescribe treatment;

perform physical examination;

elaborate reports;

raise diagnostic hypotheses;

request interconsultations;

demonstrate ability to interpret verbal and non-verbal language;

elaborate image documents;

to raise diagnostic hypotheses;

mapping area of operation;

select patients in specific situations;

identify groups, families and individuals exposed to risks;

develop procedures;

assist the regulation of medical activities;

redefine the disease for the patient by individualizing its meaning;

perform treatment with chemical agents;

identify partners and resources available in the community;

prepare teaching material;

perform organ and tissue transplants;

dispatch work;

provide testimonials;

demonstrate ability to preserve medical confidentiality;

select work team;

evaluate medical acts;

inspect equipment and facilities;

implementing worker safety and protection measures;

issue reports;

organizing continuing education courses;

prescribe immunization;

performing gene therapy;

practicing interventional procedures;

registering activities in information systems;

elaborate standard operating procedures;

dispatch time;

rehabilitate patients and clients (biopsychosocial conditions);

demonstrate ability to deal with adverse situations;

carry out actions to prevent injuries and cures;

planning treatment of clients and patients;

prescribing drugs, medicines, herbal and anthroposophic;

examine medical documents;

demonstrate ability to make decisions;

issue prescriptions;

forward users to other professionals;

establishing medical-hospital committees;

promote educational activities;

serving users in ubss, in homes or community spaces;

guard organs and tissues;

develop equipment;

demonstrate selective attention capacity;

establish health action plan;

promote comprehensive care;

teaching classes;

implanting orthoses and prostheses;

promoting health campaigns;

describe medical actions;

demonstrate empathy;

issue certificates;

elaborate protocols for medical procedures;

promoting educational activities;

monitor cognitive/emotional development of the student/educator;

answer expert questions;

demonstrate leadership ability;

organize scientific meetings;

demonstrate receptiveness;

diagnose the health status of patients and clients;

writing scientific papers;

assist in the regulation of medical activities;

cultivating organs and tissues;

fill in compulsory notification forms;

deliver preventive treatments;

implement biosecurity measures;

perform anamnesis;

demonstrate quickness of perception;

perform instrumental workup;

to be responsible for all services provided to the enrolled population;

assist childbirth;

coordinating the care of users;

performing treatment with biological agents;

elaborate medical records;

track prevalent diseases;

developing research in medicine;

specify inputs;

perform urgent and emergency care;

demonstrate ability to listen;

establish prognosis;

demonstrate ability to provide humanized care;

demonstrate ability to adapt language;

inspect work environments;

practicing clinical interventions;

practicing psychotherapy;

implement environmental health measures;

define territory of action;

provide consultancy and advice;

organizing health promotion groups;

set up service schedule;

disclose information in the media;

distribute tasks;

perform autopsies;

demonstrate tolerance;

implement worker safety and protection measures;

demonstrate impartiality of judgment;

request additional exams;

perform in-office assistance;

perform gene therapy;

Sectors that hire General practitioner the most in the job market

hospital care activities
service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
outpatient medical activity with resources for performing complementary exams
other human health care activities
activities of associations for the defense of social rights
outpatient medical activity with resources for performing surgical procedures
health management support activities
higher education - undergraduate
general public administration
health plans

General practitioner - Career description, activities, functions and salary