Impact of burnout and professional fulfillment on intent to leave among pediatric physicians: The findings of a quality improvement initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Physician burnout is rampant, and physician retention is increasingly hard. It is unclear how burnout impacts intent to leave an organization. We sought to determine how physician burnout and professional fulfillment impact pediatric physicians' intent to leave (ITL) an organization.

Design and methods

We performed 120, 1:1 semi-structured interviews of our pediatric faculty and used the themes therefrom to develop a Likert-scale based, 22-question battery of their current work experience. We created a faculty climate survey by combining those questions with a standardized instrument that assesses burnout and professional fulfillment. We surveyed pediatric and pediatric-affiliated (e.g. pediatric surgery, pediatric psychiatry, etc.) physicians betwe

SUBMITTER: Collins RT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10998309 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature