Tackle Physician Burnout with Two-Pronged Interventions
July 5, 2018 The depersonalization, emotional exhaustion and reduced feelings of accomplishment that characterize the phenomenon known as physician burnout—and that remain endemic in healthcare—call for a combination of organizational and individual interventions, a review published in June issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine reports. “Both individual‐focused and structural or organizational solutions are required to address physician burnout, and a growing body of evidence confirms that both approaches can be effective,” according to researchers from Mayo Clinic and Stanford University. “Importantly, not only…