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Emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey
BACKGROUND: Although job-related burnout and its core feature emotional exhaustion are common among medical professionals and compromise job satisfaction and professional performance, they have never been systematically studied in medical professors, who have central positions in academic medicine....
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25189761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-183 |
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author | Tijdink, Joeri K Vergouwen, Anton CM Smulders, Yvo M |
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description | BACKGROUND: Although job-related burnout and its core feature emotional exhaustion are common among medical professionals and compromise job satisfaction and professional performance, they have never been systematically studied in medical professors, who have central positions in academic medicine. METHODS: We performed an online nationwide survey inviting all 1206 medical professors in The Netherlands to participate. They were asked to fill out the Maslach Burnout Inventory, a ‘professional engagement’ inventory, and to provide demographic and job-specific data. RESULTS: A total of 437 Professors completed the questionnaire. Nearly one quarter (23.8%) scored above the cut-off used for the definition of emotional exhaustion. Factors related to being in an early career stage (i.e. lower age, fewer years since appointment, having homeliving children, having a relatively low Hirsch index) were significantly associated with higher emotional exhaustion scores. There was a significant inverse correlation between emotional exhaustion and the level of professional engagement. CONCLUSIONS: Early career medical professors have higher scores on emotional exhaustion and may be prone for developing burnout. Based upon this finding, preventive strategies to prevent burnout could be targeted to young professors. |
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spelling | pubmed-41671372014-09-19 Emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey Tijdink, Joeri K Vergouwen, Anton CM Smulders, Yvo M BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Although job-related burnout and its core feature emotional exhaustion are common among medical professionals and compromise job satisfaction and professional performance, they have never been systematically studied in medical professors, who have central positions in academic medicine. METHODS: We performed an online nationwide survey inviting all 1206 medical professors in The Netherlands to participate. They were asked to fill out the Maslach Burnout Inventory, a ‘professional engagement’ inventory, and to provide demographic and job-specific data. RESULTS: A total of 437 Professors completed the questionnaire. Nearly one quarter (23.8%) scored above the cut-off used for the definition of emotional exhaustion. Factors related to being in an early career stage (i.e. lower age, fewer years since appointment, having homeliving children, having a relatively low Hirsch index) were significantly associated with higher emotional exhaustion scores. There was a significant inverse correlation between emotional exhaustion and the level of professional engagement. CONCLUSIONS: Early career medical professors have higher scores on emotional exhaustion and may be prone for developing burnout. Based upon this finding, preventive strategies to prevent burnout could be targeted to young professors. BioMed Central 2014-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4167137/ /pubmed/25189761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-183 Text en © Tijdink et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tijdink, Joeri K Vergouwen, Anton CM Smulders, Yvo M Emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey |
title | Emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey |
title_full | Emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey |
title_fullStr | Emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey |
title_short | Emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey |
title_sort | emotional exhaustion and burnout among medical professors; a nationwide survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25189761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-183 |
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