Emergency physicians experienced professional burnout more than 3 times that of the
average physician, according to a national study that compared burnout rates among …

Burnout syndrome was defined as a separate entity from depression in the 1970s because it
was noted to primarily affect an individual's relationship to work. It is defined as the triad of …

Medicine in June 1995 supports the perception that stress and burnout are associated with
our specialty; and not surprisingly, those EPs who plan to leave the specialty report high …

Background It is a commonly upheld belief that emergency physicians (EPs) become burned
out at an increased rate, compared with other physicians or to the population. The primary …

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) …

Training and the practice of emergency medicine are stressful endeavours, placing
emergency medicine physicians at risk of burnout. Burnout syndrome is associated with …

Each year more than 400 physicians take their lives, likely related to increasing depression
and burnout. Burnout—a psychological syndrome featuring emotional exhaustion …

Study objective Previous work shows that emergency medicine attending physicians have
higher-than-average rates of burnout. Preliminary data suggest that emergency medicine …

This fifth article in our series focuses on burnout in practicing pediatric emergency medicine
physicians. As opposed to a general review of burnout, we address understudied and …

We conducted a study to measure participating practitioners' burnout levels and to identify
coping methods used by these physicians to manage stress. A cross-sectional study was …