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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. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2016 Sponsoring Institutions with Five or Fewer Residency Programs Produce a Larger Proportion of General Internists and Family Physicians Go to Sponsoring Institutions with Five or Fewer Residency Programs Produce a Larger Proportion of General Internists and Family Physicians 2021 Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification Go to Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification 2023 Measuring Trust in Primary Care Go to Measuring Trust in Primary Care 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence
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 2016 Sponsoring Institutions with Five or Fewer Residency Programs Produce a Larger Proportion of General Internists and Family Physicians Go to Sponsoring Institutions with Five or Fewer Residency Programs Produce a Larger Proportion of General Internists and Family Physicians 2021 Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification Go to Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification 2023 Measuring Trust in Primary Care Go to Measuring Trust in Primary Care 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence
2016 Sponsoring Institutions with Five or Fewer Residency Programs Produce a Larger Proportion of General Internists and Family Physicians Go to Sponsoring Institutions with Five or Fewer Residency Programs Produce a Larger Proportion of General Internists and Family Physicians
2021 Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification Go to Practice Patterns of Family Physicians With and Without Addiction Medicine Board Certification
2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence
