How common is burnout among physicians? It depends on how it’s defined
There’s a vast body of research showing that physicians and other health care professionals experience high rates of burnout, their roles leaving them exhausted, overworked, or detached. But a new study makes the case that it’s difficult to capture how common burnout actually is because how it’s defined varies so widely.
The research, published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery, surveyed nearly 7,000 general surgery residents in the U.S. about whether they experienced symptoms of burnout and if so, how often. When the researchers parsed the definition of burnout differently, they found significant differences in how prevalent burnout was among participants.
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