Emergency Medicine Faculty Are Poor at Predicting Burnout in Individual Trainees: An Exploratory Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Burnout is common among emergency medicine (EM) physicians, and it is prevalent even among EM trainees. Recently proposed Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements encourage faculty to alert residency leadership when trainees display signs of burnout. It remains uncertain how trainees experiencing burnout can be reliably identified. We examined if EM faculty advisers at one institution can accurately predict burnout in their EM resident advisees.

Methods

In this cross-sectional, exploratory study at a single institution, we measured EM trainee burnout using the Maslach Burnout Inventory through a confidential, electronic survey. We subsequently asked EM faculty to predict if their designated advisees were experiencing burnout through a separ

SUBMITTER: Lu DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001710 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature