Family Physicians are trained to detect and to some extend diagnose a variety of diseases/abnormalities/conditions, essentially a family physician offers a mélange of preventive, acute, and chronic healthcare / medical services. Along with diagnosing and curing illnesses, they also perform preemptive healthcare, routine patient check-ups (involving full-body screenings), immunization tests, health-risk assessments, screening examinations, and in-person counseling on the importance and mechanics of a healthy lifestyle. A family physician may also perform a range of tests for any specific disease detection/cure, and may also further recommend single-organ-specialists for a better and advanced diagnostic process.

Their scope of knowledge encompasses community, health promotion, disease prevention, disease awareness, basic education and information about preemptive healthcare measures.