In "Back From Burnout: Confronting the Post-pandemic Physician Turnover Crisis," an October report from the Medical Group Management Association and Jackson Physician Search, physicians were surveyed on where they think burnout comes from.
The survey, conducted in August 2022, received responses from 326 physicians and healthcare administrators.
Here's how physicians viewed the causes of burnout:
- Eight percent of physicians viewed burnout as totally caused by their current employer
- Thirty-two percent of physicians viewed burnout as caused more by their current employer than simply the nature of being a physician
- Fourteen percent of physicians viewed their current employer and the nature of being a physician as equal causes of burnout
- Thirty-two percent of physicians viewed burnout as caused more by the nature of being a physician
- Fourteen percent of physicians viewed burnout as totally caused by the nature of being a physician