Burnout among family medicine residents: a cross-sectional nationwide study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In addition to pressures typical of other medical professions, family physicians face additional challenges such as building long-term relationships with patients, dealing with patients' social problems, and working at a high level of uncertainty. We aimed to assess the rate of burnout and factors associated with it among family medicine residents throughout Israel.

Methods

A cross sectional study based on a self-administered questionnaire.

Results

Ninety family medicine residents throughout Israel completed the questionnaire. The rate of clinically significant burnout, assessed by the composite Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire score, was 14.4%. In univariate analyses several personal and professional characteristics, as well as all tested psychological

SUBMITTER: Treister-Goltzman Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10811917 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature