Open AccessBurnout and Other Types of Emotional Distress Among Medical Students
Author(s) -
Samuel Ofei-Dodoo,
Scott E. Moser,
Rick Kellerman,
Jennifer Wipperman,
Anthony M. Paolo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical science educator
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 13
ISSN - 2156-8650
DOI - 10.1007/s40670-019-00810-5
Subject(s) - burnout , psychological intervention , emotional exhaustion , logistic regression , depression (economics) , medicine , clinical psychology , descriptive statistics , family medicine , odds , distress , multivariate analysis , test (biology) , psychology , psychiatry , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology , economics , macroeconomics
The medical literature reports that many medical trainees experience burnout. The primary goal of this study was to determine how the prevalence of burnout and other forms of emotional distress among the University of Kansas School of Medicine (KUSM) medical students compared to the previously published data.