MedPage Today July 10, 2024
— Annual AMA survey shows declines for all specialties, but many still above 50%
Although physician burnout rates fell in 2023, the American Medical Association highlighted six specialties with the highest rates of burnout in its latest survey.
Those specialties are (compared with their 2022 data):
- Emergency medicine: 56.5% — down from 62%
- Internal medicine: 51.4% — down from 52%
- Ob/gyn: 51.2% — down from 54%
- Family medicine: 51% — down from 58%
- Pediatrics: 46.9% — down from 55%
- Hospital medicine: 44% — down from 59%
Last week, results from the 2023 AMA Organizational Biopsy showed that physician burnout overall fell below 50% for the first time since 2020. In 2023, 48.2% of physicians reported experiencing at least...
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