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Home Research Research Library The Impact of Practicing Obstetrics on Burnout Among Early-Career Family Physicians The Impact of Practicing Obstetrics on Burnout Among Early-Career Family Physicians 2020 Author(s) Barreto, Tyler W, Eden, Aimee R, and Brock, Audrey Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Maternity Care, Physician Experience (Burnout / Satisfaction), Practice Organization / Ownership, and Qualitative Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine Background and Objectives: According to a previous study, obstetric deliveries may be protective against burnout for family physicians. Analyses of interviews conducted during a larger qualitative study about the experiences of early-career family physicians who intended to include obstetric deliveries in their practice revealed that many interviewees discussed burnout. This study aimed to understand the relationship between practicing obstetrics and burnout based on an analysis of these emerging data on burnout. Methods: We conducted semistructured interviews with physicians who graduated from family medicine residency programs in the United States between 2013 and 2016. We applied an immersion-crystallization approach to analyze transcribed interviews. Results: Fifty-six early-career family physicians participated in interviews. Burnout was an emerging theme. Physicians described how practicing obstetrics can protect from burnout (eg, brings joy to practice, diversity in practice), how it can contribute to burnout (eg, time demands, increased stress), how it can do both simultaneously and the importance of professional agency (ie, the capacity to make own free choices), and other sources of burnout (eg, administrative tasks, complex patients). Conclusions: This study identifies a family medicine-obstetric paradox wherein obstetrics can simultaneously protect from and contribute to burnout for family physicians. Professional agency may partially explain this paradox. ABFM Research Read all 2020 Proportion of Family Physicians Caring for Children is Declining Go to Proportion of Family Physicians Caring for Children is Declining 2020 Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) Go to Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) 2017 Building a Sustainable Primary Care Workforce: Where Do We Go from Here? Go to Building a Sustainable Primary Care Workforce: Where Do We Go from Here? 2022 From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? Go to From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately?
Author(s) Barreto, Tyler W, Eden, Aimee R, and Brock, Audrey Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Maternity Care, Physician Experience (Burnout / Satisfaction), Practice Organization / Ownership, and Qualitative Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2020 Proportion of Family Physicians Caring for Children is Declining Go to Proportion of Family Physicians Caring for Children is Declining 2020 Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) Go to Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) 2017 Building a Sustainable Primary Care Workforce: Where Do We Go from Here? Go to Building a Sustainable Primary Care Workforce: Where Do We Go from Here? 2022 From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? Go to From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately?
2020 Proportion of Family Physicians Caring for Children is Declining Go to Proportion of Family Physicians Caring for Children is Declining
2020 Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) Go to Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE)
2017 Building a Sustainable Primary Care Workforce: Where Do We Go from Here? Go to Building a Sustainable Primary Care Workforce: Where Do We Go from Here?
2022 From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately? Go to From ABFM: Breakthroughs: What has the NASEM Report Done for You Lately?