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Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32361
Subject(s) - empathy , haven , burnout , vulnerability (computing) , workforce , psychology , citation , medical education , library science , medicine , psychiatry , political science , clinical psychology , law , computer security , computer science , mathematics , combinatorics
A new study of 588 millennial and Generation X residents and fellows did not show increased vulnerability to burnout or different empathy skills in millennial physicians in training compared to a demographic‐matched sample of Generation X physicians, according to a Northwestern University press release. The study, published May 5 in Academic Psychiatry , is the first to evaluate the impact of generation affiliation (millennial vs. Generation X) on physician qualities, specifically empathy and burnout. “As millennial physicians are increasingly entering the workforce, people seem to be wondering what millennial doctors will be like, and I've heard older physicians opine that physician burnout is a bigger problem now due to generation vulnerability,” said lead author Brandon Hamm, M.D., instructor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Hamm conducted the research while he was at the Cleveland Clinic. “Our study provides a little more transparency that it's medical‐system exposure — not generational traits — that is more likely to contribute to the burnout seen in today's doctors.”