One in two emergency care doctors will suffer a burnout during their career, according to a survey of French physicians, published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. The research was funded in part by the NEXT NURSES’ EXIT STUDY (‘Sustaining working ability in the nursing profession – investigation of premature departure from work’) project, which received more than EUR 2 million under the ‘Quality of life and management of living resources’ Programme of the EU’s Fifth Framework Programme (FP5).
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The responses showed that the prevalence of burnout was high, with 1 in 2 emergency care doctors identified as suffering from it, compared with more than 4 out of 10 of the representative sample. Physicians had the highest burnout rate in the two age groups, between 35 and 44 and between 45 and 54.
Expectedly, it’s International…
Not that I doubt that burnout is an issue in North American EPs, I have to wonder whether this survey is really generalizable to this side of the Atlantic. My understanding is that emergency medicine is structured very differently in continental Europe, including France. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_France#Emergency_medicine_speciality" See this wikipedia blurb, for instance.