physician

professional who practices medicine
Intangible medical_profession Q39631
physician
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physician

Summary

physician is a medical profession[1]. physician draws 913 Wikipedia views per month (medical_profession category, ranking #2 of 18).[2]

Key Facts

  • physician's instance of is recorded as medical profession[3].
  • physician's instance of is recorded as occupation[4].
  • physician's instance of is recorded as position[5].
  • physician's instance of is recorded as occupation group according to ISCO-08[6].
  • physician's instance of is recorded as health profession[7].
  • physician is a type of health professional[8].
  • physician's Commons category is recorded as Physicians[9].
  • physician's field of this occupation is recorded as medicine[10].
  • physician's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Physicians[11].
  • physician's ISCO-88 occupation class is recorded as 2221[12].
  • physician's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as healthcare=doctor[13].
  • physician's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • physician's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15].
  • physician's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox physician[16].
  • physician's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Physician[17].
  • physician's different from is recorded as physicist[18].
  • physician's different from is recorded as Doctor of Philosophy[19].
  • physician's different from is recorded as Practitioner[20].
  • physician's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'طبيبة'}[21].
  • physician's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ary', 'text': 'طبيبة'}[22].
  • physician's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'arz', 'text': 'دكتوره'}[23].
  • physician's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ast', 'text': 'médica'}[24].
  • physician's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'metgessa'}[25].
  • physician's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'lékařka'}[26].
  • physician's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Ärztin'}[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include medical profession[3], occupation[4], position[5], occupation group according to ISCO-08[6], and health profession[7]. physician is a type of health professional[8].

Influence

Things named for physician include doctor's sausage[28], founded in 1936[29].

Why It Matters

physician draws 913 Wikipedia views per month (medical_profession category, ranking #2 of 18).[2] physician has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] physician is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for physician include doctor's sausage[28], founded in 1936[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . www2.ub.gu.se. www2.ub.gu.se. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . International Standard Classification of Occupations. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Label in sign language Docteur.webm
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ [[Property:P244]]: sh85101610"
  2. 20d ago · MarisDreshmanisBot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases
    Field of this occupation medicine
    Described by source Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary
    Subclass of health professional
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ [[Property:P8283]]: 221, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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