Burnout and Self-Reported Patient Care in an Internal Medicine Residency Program

By Tait D. Shanafelt, K. Bradley, J. Wipf, A. Back. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002

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The importance of perceived autonomy support for the psychological health and work satisfaction of health professionals: Not only supervisors count, colleagues too! (2011, background): “For example, a third of medical residents report not being happy with their career choice (34%, Shanafelt et al. 2002) and a third contemplated quitting during their ﬁrst months of residency (34%, Clark et al. 1984).”
Association of perceived medical errors with resident distress and empathy: a prospective longitudinal study. (2006, methodology): “When considered with previous studies demonstrating a link between personal distress and empathy,(36,46) these results imply that medical errors represent an important contributor to the personal distress and loss of compassion reported in numerous studies of residents,(36,47,48) which is significan”
Healthcare Staff Wellbeing, Burnout, and Patient Safety: A Systematic Review (2016, background): “All but one[46] of the remaining studies that found either no link at all or only an association between either wellbeing or burnout with safety, were those that used objective measures of error, suggesting that perhaps objective measures are not sensitive enough[16, 27, 29].”