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Can a general practitioner call himself a generalist? How many subfields does a mechanical engineer need to be competent in before they can be labeled a genera

• neonological 6y ago
  > Can a general practitioner call himself a generalist? A generalist practitioner in the case of a Doctor isn't really a specialist. You need additional schooling to specialize. So a specialist technically knows more than a "general practitioner" for doctors. For this context, a generalist refers to someone who specialized in more fields than one. So a brain surgeon and a cancer specialist would be more general than someone who only does brain surgery. >How many subfields does a mechanical engineer need to be competent in before they can be labeled a generalist? Don't know. It's not formally defined. But it has got to be more than one. >What about lawyers? Same as above, I guess.