Physician and Medical Student Burnout, a Narrative Literature Review: Challenges, Strategies, and a Call to Action DOI Open Access
Santiago Cotobal Rodeles, F. Javier Sánchez, Manuel Martínez‐Sellés

et al.

Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(7), P. 2263 - 2263

Published: March 26, 2025

Background: Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion produced by excessive prolonged professional stress. Its prevalence unclear, figures from 2 to 81% have been reported, although studies focused on this issue are scarce inconsistent definitions the absence validated measurement tools make comparisons difficult. Methods: Our narrative review's purpose was explore physician medical student burnout across specialties in specific subgroups, including young doctors, researchers, female physicians. We also assess effects students patients possible strategies prevent reverse it. Results: affects students, patients. It impacts significantly physicians health can be trigger for depression, substance abuse, suicide attempts. Moreover, psychological physical increase risk systemic conditions such as cardiovascular disease. Physician increases errors, reduces efficacy, might compromise patients' safety. Strategies focusing mental, social, occupational well-being help treat burnout. These include resilience training, self-care, exercise, work-life balance, institutional changes, reducing administrative burdens improving electronic record systems. Medical students' triggered problems related their age, economic situation, exam stress workload, high academic expectations, lack support, others. Conclusions: common negatively affecting health, professional/academic patient outcomes. Addressing requires multifaceted approach, individual changes within institutions.

Language: Английский

Physician and Medical Student Burnout, a Narrative Literature Review: Challenges, Strategies, and a Call to Action DOI Open Access
Santiago Cotobal Rodeles, F. Javier Sánchez, Manuel Martínez‐Sellés

et al.

Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(7), P. 2263 - 2263

Published: March 26, 2025

Background: Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion produced by excessive prolonged professional stress. Its prevalence unclear, figures from 2 to 81% have been reported, although studies focused on this issue are scarce inconsistent definitions the absence validated measurement tools make comparisons difficult. Methods: Our narrative review's purpose was explore physician medical student burnout across specialties in specific subgroups, including young doctors, researchers, female physicians. We also assess effects students patients possible strategies prevent reverse it. Results: affects students, patients. It impacts significantly physicians health can be trigger for depression, substance abuse, suicide attempts. Moreover, psychological physical increase risk systemic conditions such as cardiovascular disease. Physician increases errors, reduces efficacy, might compromise patients' safety. Strategies focusing mental, social, occupational well-being help treat burnout. These include resilience training, self-care, exercise, work-life balance, institutional changes, reducing administrative burdens improving electronic record systems. Medical students' triggered problems related their age, economic situation, exam stress workload, high academic expectations, lack support, others. Conclusions: common negatively affecting health, professional/academic patient outcomes. Addressing requires multifaceted approach, individual changes within institutions.

Language: Английский

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