Gender-Based Differences in Burnout: Issues Faced by Women Physicians

Templeton, Kim; Bernstein, Carol A.; Sukhera, Javeed; Nora, Lois Margaret; Newman, Connie; Burstin, Helen; Guille, Constance; Lynn, Lorna; Schwarze, Margaret L.; Sen, Srijan; Busis, Neil

Gender-Based Differences in Burnout: Issues Faced by Women Physicians

Templeton, Kim; Bernstein, Carol A.; Sukhera, Javeed; Nora, Lois Margaret; Newman, Connie; Burstin, Helen; Guille, Constance; Lynn, Lorna; Schwarze, Margaret L.; Sen, Srijan; Busis, Neil

Abstract

Individual, institutional, and societal risk factors for the development of burnout can differ for women and men physicians. While some studies on physician burnout report an increased prevalence among women, this finding may be due to actual differences in prevalence, the assessment tools used, or differences between/among the genders in how burnout manifests. In the following discussion paper, we review the prevalence of burnout in women physicians and contributing factors to burnout that are specific for women physicians. Understanding, preventing, and mitigating burnout among all physicians is critical, but such actions are particularly important for the retention of women physicians, given the increasing numbers of women in medicine and in light of the predicted exacerbation of physician shortages.

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NAM Perspectives
2019
Profession(s)
Physicians
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Burnout
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Briefs & Reports
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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
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