JAMASurgery: June 24, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2020.1332
Burnout: Career Satisfaction, Personal Life, and Work-Life Integration Practices Among US Surgeons by Gender
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Burnout affects nearly half of US physicians and disproportionately affects women. Compared with men, women report lower satisfaction with work-life integration in medicine generally and surgery specifically. Conflicts between one’s professional life and personal life are a major contributor to burnout in surgery, and women experience work-home conflicts at higher rates than men.
Multiple gender differences in domestic and parenting responsibilities have been reported among early-career surgeon scientists, and a 2019 survey of physicians who are mothers demonstrated an association between greater domestic responsibilities and lower career satisfaction among women in procedural fields. It is unclear whether these findings are generalizable to surgeons without children and across practice types.
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