Tag Archives: Burnout

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Widespread Medical Resident Burnout and Debt

September 7th, 2011 - 6:50 am

Feelings of burnout persist among internal medicine residents despite significant cutbacks in duty hours for doctors-in-training in recent years, a national study by Mayo Clinic found. A poor quality of life took a toll on performance: Stressors affecting well-being such … Continue reading →

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Burnout and Mental Distress Strongly Related to Errors by U.S. Surgeons

November 23rd, 2009 - 11:06 am

Major medical errors self-reported by American surgeons are strongly related to both burnout and depression. Those findings appear today in the online edition of Annals of Surgery. The Mayo Clinic-led study included collaborators from Johns Hopkins and the American College … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Researchers Find More Than Just Fatigue Behind Medical Errors By Residents

September 18th, 2009 - 9:08 am

Journalists: For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post. Mayo Clinic researchers report that distress and fatigue among medical residents are independent contributors to self-perceived medical errors. The findings appear today in the Journal of … Continue reading →

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