Family Medicine Faculty Time Allocation and Burnout: A Residency Research Network of Texas Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Burnout among graduate medical education (GME) faculty is a well-documented phenomenon, but few studies have explored the relationship between faculty time allocation and burnout.

Objective

Our objectives were to (1) characterize time allocation of academic family physicians, (2) measure the difference between actual versus preferred time spent on various tasks, and (3) examine this difference in relation to burnout.

Methods

From January to March 2017, family medicine GME faculty across Texas completed anonymous online surveys for burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory) and occupational stress (Primary Care Provider Stress Checklist). They also reported the percentage of time they actually versus prefer to allocate across 5 categorie

SUBMITTER: Ko SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7594782 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature