Abstract
Academic Emergency Physicians (EPs) face additional unique challenges in optimizing wellness compared to community EPs.
Highlights
Academic Emergency Physicians (EPs) face additional unique challenges in optimizing wellness compared to community EPs
Our objective was to explore specific individual and systems challenges that academic EPs encounter that affect their wellbeing and professional fulfillment in emergency medicine (EM)
An expert group of academic EPs convened in 2019 at the annual meeting of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine to investigate the overall causes of burnout in healthcare providers, the effects of burnout on the healthcare system, specific causes of burnout in EM, and the distinct challenges facing academic emergency physicians
Summary
Academic Emergency Physicians (EPs) face additional unique challenges in optimizing wellness compared to community EPs. I breathe deeply, looking at my patient list on the electronic health record. I breathe deeply, looking at my patient list on the electronic health record It took 10 minutes and 37 mouse clicks just to order a simple life-saving medication. Case 2 There is significant pressure to publish in academic EM in order to show the value of my work. Burnout is a result of chronic workplace stressors, rather than individual mental health factors [2]. Burnout is specific to one's relation to his/her work environment. It is often treated as a dichotomous variable in research [4], burnout exists along a continuous spectrum.
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