"collectively, the findings of this national study indicate that (1) the prevalence of burnout among us physicians is at an alarming level, (2) physicians in specialties at the front line of care access (emergency medicine, general internal medicine, and family medicine) are at greatest risk, (3) physicians work longer hours and have greater. In 2013, the first year of the “medscape lifestyle report,” emergency medicine had the highest rates of burnout at just over 50 percent. that specialty, in 2017, is now close to 60 percent. meanwhile, on the severity scale urology landed in the uncoveted top spot with a 4.6 rating. that compares with a 4.2 burnout severity rating for emergency medicine.. June 5, 2018 june 6, 2018 christy 203 views adaira landry, clinical rotations, diversity in medicine, emergency medicine, emergency medicine, medical student, physician q&a by christy crisologo, sdn editor-in-chief adaira landry, md, med, is the assistant residency director for the harvard emergency medicine residency..
Emergency medicine physicians were given a list of stressors and asked to rate how important they were as a cause of burnout on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 = not at all important and 7 = extremely. Training and the practice of emergency medicine are stressful endeavours, placing emergency medicine physicians at risk of burnout. burnout syndrome is associated with negative outcomes for. Beating the burnout blues. burn out is a real issue in emergency medicine. most of us were warned about it while in medical school before applying for residency but we rationalized that burnout from previous generations of ed docs was due to a lack of formal training or that somehow we’d be immune to it because we had a better.
