The national Junior Medical Officer Welfare Study: a snapshot of intern life in Australia

Heredia, Daniel C; Rhodes, Caroline Sarah Marie; English, S.; Law, Dayna B; McElrea, Anna C; Honeyball, Florian

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02881.x

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“…Our survey found a lower prevalence of burnout in GP registrars (14% using the single-item scale and none using the ProQOL burnout subscale) than other recent surveys of the Australian junior doctor population (31 – 75%) [4,24,25]. Interestingly, we found no relationship between a registrar’s duration of GP experience and burnout.…”

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“…Low response rates and responder bias may explain the higher level of burnout (31 – 75%) reported in other studies [4,24,25]. Our results are surprising but are in line with the validation study of the single-item measure of burnout in US physicians, which found that 23% of physicians were burnt-out [17], and with a recent survey of GP registrars that showed 10% were mildly or moderately depressed or anxious [26].…”

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A survey of resilience, burnout, and tolerance of uncertainty in Australian general practice registrars

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BackgroundBurnout and intolerance of uncertainty have been linked to low job satisfaction and lower quality patient care. While resilience is related to these concepts, no study has examined these three concepts in a cohort of doctors. The objective of this study was to measure resilience, burnout, compassion satisfaction, personal meaning in patient care and intolerance of uncertainty in Australian general practice (GP) registrars.MethodsWe conducted a paper-based cross-sectional survey of GP registrars in Australia from June to July 2010, recruited from a newsletter item or registrar education events. Survey measures included the Resilience Scale-14, a single-item scale for burnout, Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) scale, Personal Meaning in Patient Care scale, Intolerance of Uncertainty-12 scale, and Physician Response to Uncertainty scale.Results128 GP registrars responded (response rate 90%). Fourteen percent of registrars were found to be at risk of burnout using the single-item scale for burnout, but none met the criteria for burnout using the ProQOL scale. Secondary traumatic stress, general intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety due to clinical uncertainty and reluctance to disclose uncertainty to patients were associated with being at higher risk of burnout, but sex, age, practice location, training duration, years since graduation, and reluctance to disclose uncertainty to physicians were not.Only ten percent of registrars had high resilience scores. Resilience was positively associated with compassion satisfaction and personal meaning in patient care. Resilience was negatively associated with burnout, secondary traumatic stress, inhibitory anxiety, general intolerance to uncertainty, concern about bad outcomes and reluctance to disclose uncertainty to patients.ConclusionsGP registrars in this survey showed a lower level of burnout than in other recent surveys of the broader junior doctor population in both Australia and overseas. Resilience was also lower than might be expected of a satisfied and professionally successful cohort.

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“…The AMA's junior doctor health survey was adapted from the 2007 Junior Medical Officer Welfare Study (developed by Dr Daniel Heredia, Dr Suzanne English and Ms Sheree Keech, and funded by the Postgraduate Medical Council of Western Australia) 9 . The 96‐item confidential, online, self‐reporting survey was conducted between 6 February and 20 April 2008.…”

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The health and wellbeing of junior doctors: insights from a national survey

Markwell¹,

Wainer²

2009

Medical Journal of Australia

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Junior doctors face specific pressures related to their professional stage and development and can be at risk of poor health. A confidential survey conducted in 2008 by the Australian Medical Association Council of Doctors in Training investigated the health and wellbeing of junior doctors. There were 914 completed surveys: 71% of junior doctors were concerned about their own health, and 63% about the health of a colleague. A majority of junior doctors met well established criteria for low job satisfaction (71%), burnout (69%) and compassion fatigue (54%). The early stages of a medical career are demanding, and the health and wellbeing of junior doctors must be a personal priority, as well as the responsibility of the medical profession in general, to ensure a healthy medical workforce in the future.

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“…According to https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02881.x, the intern year remains stressful despite reductions in hours and improvements in conditions 5 . Self‐report showed that 50% of interns thought medical school prepared them well for internship and, for most, internship was what they expected; but structured questionnaires showed that nearly 60% of interns had low levels of job satisfaction and, alarmingly, 18% regretted having studied medicine 5 . Likewise, https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02880.x found high rates of low job satisfaction and compassion fatigue among doctors in training, with 17% saying that, if they had their time over again, they would not have chosen medicine as a career 6 …”

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Keeping the doctor healthy: ongoing challenges

Jenkins

2009

Medical Journal of Australia

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The national Junior Medical Officer Welfare Study: a snapshot of intern life in Australia

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A survey of resilience, burnout, and tolerance of uncertainty in Australian general practice registrars

A survey of resilience, burnout, and tolerance of uncertainty in Australian general practice registrars

The health and wellbeing of junior doctors: insights from a national survey

Keeping the doctor healthy: ongoing challenges

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