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)