Emergency physician burnout and attrition in Canada: a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Canadian emergency staff have been dealing with record patient attendances, long wait times, bed blocking, and department overcrowding. We sought to report temporal trends in Canadian emergency physician burnout, and describe the impact of emergency medicine practice on physician well-being.

Methods

We undertook a longitudinal study on Canadian emergency physician wellness that enrolled participants in April 2020. Participants were invited to 3 follow-up surveys in November 2020, September 2022, and January 2025. The primary outcomes were emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment scores. We conducted a deductive qualitative thematic analysis of the 2025 survey free-text responses by applying the framework created with our 2022 survey, to

SUBMITTER: de Wit K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC13427096 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature