By Miranda Hester, August 21, 2020, Contemporary Pediatrics.
Burnout is often seen as something that happens to physicians who have been practicing for years. A new study looks at how burnout impacts trainee physicians.
The topic of burnout and how to prevent or ameliorate it has been discussed for many years. That discussion may reach a fever pitch as the COVID-19 pandemic rages and increases many stressors. A report in JAMA Network Open looks at what’s behind burnout in trainee physicians.1
The investigators used PsycINFO, Embase, Medline, and Cochrane Database of Systemic reviews to find studies that included terms such as trainee, registrar, resident, intern, and foundation year. Two reviewers looked at the studies to assess them for quality of evidence.
The researchers concluded that odds of burnout and stress was higher for those who had modifiable factors tied to work in comparison to nonmodifiable factors. They believe that their findings indicate that interventions on the organization level could help reduce burnout in trainee physicians.
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