The impact of organizational culture on professional fulfillment and burnout in an academic department of medicine.

ABSTRACT: Physician wellness is vital to career satisfaction, provision of high quality patient care, and the successful education of the next generation of physicians. Despite this, the number of physicians experience symptoms of burnout is rising. To assess the impact of organizational culture on physicians' professional fulfillment and burnout, we surveyed full-time Department of Medicine members at the University of Toronto. A cross-sectional survey assessed: physician factors (age, gender, minority status, disability, desire to reduce clinical workload); workplace culture (efforts to create a collegial environment, respectful/civil interactions, confidence to address unprofessionalism without reprisal, witnessed and/or personally experienced unprofessionalism); professional fulfillment and burn

SUBMITTER: Burns KEA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189486 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature