Solving burnout requires wholesale change in medical education
Post-apocalyptic portrayals of medical school. Depressive symptoms in 43.2 percent of resident physicians. 34.1 percent of medical students experience burnout by third year, and that percentage increases during residency, ranging from 41 percent to 74 percent by specialty.
We lose hundreds of doctors each year to suicide, at a rate that is twice as high as the national average. Burnout increases the risk that a physician will make a mistake, which …
