Burnout is more common among physicians than among other US workers. Physicians in specialties at the front line of care access seem to be at greatest risk.

Medical school is a time of significant psychological distress for physicians-in-training. Currently available information is insufficient to draw firm conclusions on the causes and consequences of student distress. Large, prospective, multicenter studies are needed to identify personal and training-related features that influence depression, anxiety, and burnout among students and explore relationships between distress and competency.

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This Viewpoint discusses sources of anxiety revealed in conversations with health care workers (HCWs) in the early weeks of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and the importance of expressions of gratitude from leadership for HCWs’ commitment and willingness to put themselves in harm’s way as a means to ameliorate that anxiety.

Burnout was common among resident physicians and was associated with self-reported suboptimal patient care practices.

Abstract. West CP, Dyrbye LN, Shanafelt TD.

Major medical errors reported by surgeons are strongly related to a surgeon's degree of burnout and their mental QOL. Studies are needed to determine how to reduce surgeon distress and how to support surgeons when medical errors occur.

Training appears to be the peak time for distress among physicians, but differences in the prevalence of burnout, depressive symptoms, and recent suicidal ideation are relatively small. At each stage, burnout is more prevalent among physicians than among their peers in the U.S. population.