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The impact of global health outreach experiences on medical student burnout
BACKGROUND: Student burnout during medical education is a prevalent and critical problem. Burnout has reaching consequences, including negative health outcomes for students, financial loss for schools, and worsened patient care as students transition to practice. Global Health Outreach Experiences (...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10294532/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37365546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04451-6 |
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author | Kuehn, Thomas Crandall, Cody Schmidt, Jefferson Richards, Zeke Park, Taylor Szczepaniak, Morgan Zapata, Isain Wardle, Mark |
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description | BACKGROUND: Student burnout during medical education is a prevalent and critical problem. Burnout has reaching consequences, including negative health outcomes for students, financial loss for schools, and worsened patient care as students transition to practice. Global Health Outreach Experiences (GHOEs), known to enhance cultural awareness and clinical knowledge among medical students, are offered in most programs. Prior studies document that GHOEs benefit physicians suffering from burnout, with effects demonstrating improvement over 6 months. No study, to our knowledge, has assessed the influence GHOEs may have on medical student burnout with a comparable control group. This study examines whether participation in a GHOE, compared to a standard break from school, has a positive effect on burnout. METHODS: A case control study utilizing the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory was conducted on medical students. 41 students participated in a one-week, spring break GHOE and 252 were randomly selected as non-participating students in a control group. Assessments were gathered 1 week prior, 1 week after, and 10 weeks after spring break. Response across the surveys in chronological order included 22, 20, 19 GHOE and 70, 66, 50 control participants. RESULTS: A significant reduction in personal burnout (PB) (P = 0.0161), studies related burnout (SRB) (P = 0.0056), and colleagues related burnout (CRB) (P = 0.0357) was found among GHOE attendees compared to control participants at 10-weeks after spring break. When modeled with potential confounders, CRB and SRB reductions remained significant. CONCLUSION: GHOEs may be a potential tool for institutions to combat burnout rates in their students. The benefits of GHOEs appear to enhance over time. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04451-6. |
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spelling | pubmed-102945322023-06-28 The impact of global health outreach experiences on medical student burnout Kuehn, Thomas Crandall, Cody Schmidt, Jefferson Richards, Zeke Park, Taylor Szczepaniak, Morgan Zapata, Isain Wardle, Mark BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: Student burnout during medical education is a prevalent and critical problem. Burnout has reaching consequences, including negative health outcomes for students, financial loss for schools, and worsened patient care as students transition to practice. Global Health Outreach Experiences (GHOEs), known to enhance cultural awareness and clinical knowledge among medical students, are offered in most programs. Prior studies document that GHOEs benefit physicians suffering from burnout, with effects demonstrating improvement over 6 months. No study, to our knowledge, has assessed the influence GHOEs may have on medical student burnout with a comparable control group. This study examines whether participation in a GHOE, compared to a standard break from school, has a positive effect on burnout. METHODS: A case control study utilizing the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory was conducted on medical students. 41 students participated in a one-week, spring break GHOE and 252 were randomly selected as non-participating students in a control group. Assessments were gathered 1 week prior, 1 week after, and 10 weeks after spring break. Response across the surveys in chronological order included 22, 20, 19 GHOE and 70, 66, 50 control participants. RESULTS: A significant reduction in personal burnout (PB) (P = 0.0161), studies related burnout (SRB) (P = 0.0056), and colleagues related burnout (CRB) (P = 0.0357) was found among GHOE attendees compared to control participants at 10-weeks after spring break. When modeled with potential confounders, CRB and SRB reductions remained significant. CONCLUSION: GHOEs may be a potential tool for institutions to combat burnout rates in their students. The benefits of GHOEs appear to enhance over time. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04451-6. BioMed Central 2023-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10294532/ /pubmed/37365546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04451-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Kuehn, Thomas Crandall, Cody Schmidt, Jefferson Richards, Zeke Park, Taylor Szczepaniak, Morgan Zapata, Isain Wardle, Mark The impact of global health outreach experiences on medical student burnout |
title | The impact of global health outreach experiences on medical student burnout |
title_full | The impact of global health outreach experiences on medical student burnout |
title_fullStr | The impact of global health outreach experiences on medical student burnout |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of global health outreach experiences on medical student burnout |
title_short | The impact of global health outreach experiences on medical student burnout |
title_sort | impact of global health outreach experiences on medical student burnout |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10294532/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37365546 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04451-6 |
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