Losing doctors to burnout – how to solve an ongoing problem
By Aleisha Orr One in seven GPs experience it and WA junior doctors report it at moderate-to-high levels...
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Global GP Crisis
The latest survey by the Commonwealth Fund has found that burnout amongst GPs is now a global phenomenon. Read More...
Clinician burnout and patient safety
Results from an international study of clinicians have revealed that doctors experiencing burnout are twice as likely to be involved in patient safety incidents. Read More...
General Practice and Burnout: what you need to know (and change)
Too much work and no rest can make you an apathetic doctor. Read More...
Preventing burnout in the mental juggling act of medicine
“Just one more patient, one more meeting, one more hour of study…” It is easy to keep adding that “one more thing” to our day but doing that “little bit extra” can be a slippery slope and, before we know it, we are overwhelmed and experiencing burnout, seldom realising it until after we have started experiencing the ill-effects. Read More...
Turning the Tide on Burnout
Having the smarts to get into medicine doesn’t provide superpowers to go beyond the limit of normal human endurance, regardless our high personal standards of professionalism and perfectionism. It’s time to stop justifying and accepting overwork and chronic fatigue as “business as usual”. Read More...
Work Support: Medicine Keeping Up?
Perhaps medicine’s shifting gender balance holds the key in providing a more nurturing working environment suggests workplace counsellor Dana Topchian. Read More...