The WIT and the WES: Tools for Categorizing and Evaluating Physician Well-Being Programs

Drivers of professional fulfillment and burnout among emergency medicine faculty: A national wellness survey by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

“…In contrast, meaningfulness of work, self‐compassion, and control over schedule had the lowest odds of being associated with EM faculty burnout. Several publications have presented a multitude of evidence‐based strategies to improve clinician professional fulfillment and reduce burnout 9,11,12 . Efforts to promote the professional well‐being of EM faculty may be more successful if the focus is on the higher yield domains identified in this study.…”

“…Institutional support and recognition of all academic pursuits, including clinical and educational, may bolster faculty perceptions of appreciation and create a more supportive academic work environment. Additional interventions for each domain are listed in Table 5 9,11,12 . While many of these factors can be approached on both the individual and the organizational levels, current recommendations among experts in clinician well‐being point to systems‐based, rather than individual‐based, interventions as having the greatest impact and effectiveness 3…”

“…Several publications have presented a multitude of evidence-based strategies to improve clinician professional fulfillment and reduce burnout. 9,11,12 Efforts to promote the professional well-being of EM faculty may be more successful if the focus is on the higher yield domains identified in this study. For example, with meaningfulness of work, previous studies have shown that faculty who spend at least 20% of their effort on work they considered meaningful reported lower levels of burnout.…”

“…Additional interventions for each domain are listed in Table 5. 9,11,12 While many of these factors can be approached on both the individual and the organizational levels, current recommendations among experts in clinician well-being point to systems-based, rather than individual-based, interventions…”

“…Furthermore, it remains unclear which personal and workplace factors play the largest roles in clinicians' sense of professional fulfillment and burnout. Given the large number of recommendations aimed at addressing multiple aspects of clinician well-being, 9,11,12 knowledge of which factors are most impactful in promoting professional fulfillment and mitigating burnout may be useful in guiding efforts to enhance clinician well-being. This study examined the extent to which specific individual and workplace factors are associated with professional fulfillment and burnout while also investigating potential plans for attrition among a national sample of academic emergency physicians.…”