Physician burn out is a growing cause for concern. It is happening across the country and here in North Carolina. Christina Maslach, PhD, a social psychologist and researcher at the University of California Berkeley identified six factors that influence burnout:
- Work overload
- Lack of control
- Insufficient rewards
- Breakdown of community
- Sense of unfairness
- Conflicting values
In a recent episode of AMA Update, Dr. Paul DeChant, a healthcare consultant and co-author of Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine, discusses these factors driving physicians’ high burnout rates.
View the video here.