(HealthDay)—Nearly half of physicians report being burned out, but rates vary substantially by medical specialty, according to an article published in AMA Wire.
Many factors have been linked to burnout, including physician age, sex, and specialty; workplace leadership and culture; and practice type and compensation model.1Fundamentally, however, 3 forces drive burnout: pressure to care for too many patients in too little time and with too few resources;...
Burnout by Specialty SUGGESTED for you Burnout is defined as the combination of emotional burnout, depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment. "So it's looking at your schedule in the morning and thinking, how am I going to get through it all," said Dr Holmes. "It becomes harder and...
Its prevalence appears to be similar across countries, but shows differences according to medical specialty. Doctors mostly seeing patients with easily curable diseases or with good prognosis have a lower risk of burnout, whereas those seeing chronic or dying patients on a daily basis are at a ...
The highest rate of physician burnout by specialty — 51% — is found among emergency medicine physicians, with critical care physicians (50%) and family physicians (43%) in second and third place, respectively. Psychiatrists shared the penultimate spot on the list with rheumatologists, pediatricia...
The PMF is an almost complete record of all US physicians, independent of American Medical Association membership, that is primarily used for estimating the size of the physician workforce and for verifying professional credentials. To ensure an adequate sample of physicians from each specialty area,...
Burnout is a complex syndrome thought to result from long‐term exposure to career‐related stressors. Physicians are at higher risk for burnout than the general United States (US) working population, and emergency medicine has some of the highest burnout rates of any medical specialty. Burnout ...
The survey (see Additional file 2) was a mix of demographic, career-oriented, medical specialty, MBI-SS, and SMMS questions. The 16-item MBI-SS is a validated tool used to measure burnout in student populations [16]. The MBI-SS (Mind Garden Inc., Menlo Park, CA) consists of three ...
Are you challenged by figuring out why a patient is so seriously ill? Take a few moments to recall why you chose emergency medicine as your specialty. There was something very captivating about becoming an emergency physician. Do you remember what that was? Think about how the challenges in ...
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