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A quarter of all medical students in the United States are considering quitting school, according to a new report from Elsevier Health. Doctors and students weighed in with perspective.

Healio Rheumatology | On May 23, 2022, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, issued an advisory on health worker burnout and wellbeing, declaring the situation a “crisis,” and addressing it a “top national priority.”Provider burnout — in rheumatology and other specialties — had been an ongoing issue dating back prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the stresses of the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed strains on an already overwhelmed US healthcare system, with burnout rates among doctors rising to alarming levels, according to recent research.

A wave of doctors and nurses quitting could weaken the healthcare system. Many say they are burned out from dealing with the COVID culture wars.

Physicians are constantly hearing that theyre suffering from burnout -- but by now, are they becoming a little bit jaded over the attention to this subject?

Physician burnout was pressing before COVID-19, and Omicron has contributed unique stressors. Learn what to focus on to improve well-being.

A study funded in part by Women's Health Research at Yale found that background stressors explain higher reports of psychological distress in female health care

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 18, 2021 -- The American Medical Association (AMA) has recognized the Mount Sinai Health System as a recipient of the 2021 Joy in

email article Second-year med student Christopher Veal had just learned he failed a remediation course, necessitated because he had failed -- by just one point -- his final musculoskeletal exam. Those failures were bad enough. Then, as a University of Vermont (UVM) dean was giving him this bad news, Veal heard the words he had dreaded. Two former classmates grimly told him: Whenever the dean asked this question, it was a signal he should consider quitting. " In an invited commentary p...