Impostor syndrome and burnout among American medical students: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe levels of burnout and impostor syndrome (IS) in medical students, and to recognize demographic differences in those experiencing burnout and IS.

Methods

Anonymous survey administered online in 2014 that included demographic data, the Maslach Burnout Inventory and an IS screening questionnaire. Main outcome measures were level of burnout, and presence or absence of imposter syndrome. The presence of IS and burnout components were analyzed across age, gender, race, year of training, intention to pursue fellowship training, and greater than one year of work experience outside of medicine using chi-squared tests. The association between burnout and IS was also compared using chi-squared tests.

Results

One hundred and thirty-eight students completed

SUBMITTER: Villwock JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5116369 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature