A survey-based study about burnout among postgraduate medical trainees: implications for leaders in healthcare management
IntroductionThe goal of the study is to assess burnout among postgraduate medical trainees, evaluate the association with sociodemographic features and offer potential wellness strategies for leaders responsible for their education, training, management, and wellbeing.MethodsThe Oldenburg Burnout In...
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| description | IntroductionThe goal of the study is to assess burnout among postgraduate medical trainees, evaluate the association with sociodemographic features and offer potential wellness strategies for leaders responsible for their education, training, management, and wellbeing.MethodsThe Oldenburg Burnout Inventory was used. The web-based, voluntary, and anonymous survey was sent to postgraduate medical trainees from various specialties and all years of training in a tertiary medical center in Beirut, Lebanon. Additional questions were added after the survey regarding reporting channels for burnout and possible interventions for wellbeing.ResultsThe total number of valid responses are 188. The prevalence rates of high burnout are 37.2% for disengagement and 51.1% for exhaustion. There is a significant difference between the mean of exhaustion and gender (p = 0.003). There is a significant difference between the mean of disengagement and year of training (p = 0.017). There is a significant difference between the mean of exhaustion and year of training (p = 0.029). There is a significant difference between the frequency of disengagement and year of training (p = 0.027).ConclusionThe study reveals how postgraduate medical training program is impacted by the existing challenges from social, health, and financial standpoint, along with the instabilities encountered such as multiple wars and port blast in 2020 and how these variables aggravate burnout. Burnout severely impacts the education and training of PGMT and promoting wellbeing can help reverse the process. Findings contribute to establishing effective strategic interventions for leaders in healthcare management to adopt. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-567332282e7043589c1820ebd208c2db2023-07-13T00:24:28ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652023-07-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.12091911209191A survey-based study about burnout among postgraduate medical trainees: implications for leaders in healthcare managementAline Yacoubian0Evangelia Demerouti1Jad A. Degheili2Albert El Hajj3Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, LebanonDept. Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, NetherlandsDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, ON, CanadaDepartment of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, LebanonIntroductionThe goal of the study is to assess burnout among postgraduate medical trainees, evaluate the association with sociodemographic features and offer potential wellness strategies for leaders responsible for their education, training, management, and wellbeing.MethodsThe Oldenburg Burnout Inventory was used. The web-based, voluntary, and anonymous survey was sent to postgraduate medical trainees from various specialties and all years of training in a tertiary medical center in Beirut, Lebanon. Additional questions were added after the survey regarding reporting channels for burnout and possible interventions for wellbeing.ResultsThe total number of valid responses are 188. The prevalence rates of high burnout are 37.2% for disengagement and 51.1% for exhaustion. There is a significant difference between the mean of exhaustion and gender (p = 0.003). There is a significant difference between the mean of disengagement and year of training (p = 0.017). There is a significant difference between the mean of exhaustion and year of training (p = 0.029). There is a significant difference between the frequency of disengagement and year of training (p = 0.027).ConclusionThe study reveals how postgraduate medical training program is impacted by the existing challenges from social, health, and financial standpoint, along with the instabilities encountered such as multiple wars and port blast in 2020 and how these variables aggravate burnout. Burnout severely impacts the education and training of PGMT and promoting wellbeing can help reverse the process. Findings contribute to establishing effective strategic interventions for leaders in healthcare management to adopt.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1209191/fullburnoutpostgraduate medical traineeswellbeingwellnessleadership |
| spellingShingle | Aline Yacoubian Evangelia Demerouti Jad A. Degheili Albert El Hajj A survey-based study about burnout among postgraduate medical trainees: implications for leaders in healthcare management Frontiers in Public Health burnout postgraduate medical trainees wellbeing wellness leadership |
| title | A survey-based study about burnout among postgraduate medical trainees: implications for leaders in healthcare management |
| title_full | A survey-based study about burnout among postgraduate medical trainees: implications for leaders in healthcare management |
| title_fullStr | A survey-based study about burnout among postgraduate medical trainees: implications for leaders in healthcare management |
| title_full_unstemmed | A survey-based study about burnout among postgraduate medical trainees: implications for leaders in healthcare management |
| title_short | A survey-based study about burnout among postgraduate medical trainees: implications for leaders in healthcare management |
| title_sort | survey based study about burnout among postgraduate medical trainees implications for leaders in healthcare management |
| topic | burnout postgraduate medical trainees wellbeing wellness leadership |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1209191/full |
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