NOC 2021 · 31102 · TEER 1
General practitioners and family physicians
Unit group 31102 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
Healthcare and social services occupations · Physicians with Canadian work experience
What this group covers
General practitioners and family physicians diagnose and treat the diseases, physiological disorders and injuries of patients. They provide primary contact and continuous care toward the management of patients' health. They usually work in private practice, including group or team practices, hospitals and clinics. Residents in training to be general practitioners or family physicians are included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- civil aviation medical officer
- community preventive medicine physician
- company physician
- doctor of medicine (MD)
- family doctor
- family physician
- family practitioner
- general practice intern
- general practice physician
- general practice resident
- general practitioner (GP)
- industrial medical officer
- industrial medicine physician
- industrial physician
- intern
- locum doctor
- medical doctor
- medical missionary
- medical officer - Canadian Armed Forces
- medical officer of health (MOH)
- missionary doctor
- physician resident
- primary care physician
- public health physician
- resident
- resident physician
- telemedicine family physician
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.