Journal article
Monitoring stress levels in postgraduate medical training
The Laryngoscope, Vol.119(1), pp.75-78
01/2009
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20013
PMID: 19117300
Abstract
Objectives:
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates that residency Program Directors (PD) monitor resident wellâbeing, including stress. Burnout, as a measure of workârelated stress, is defined by a high degree of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, and a low degree of personal accomplishment using the Maslach Burnout InventoryâHuman Services Survey (MBIâHSS). The purpose of this study is to describe the use of the MBIâHSS as a method of monitoring stress levels in an academic otolaryngology residency training program and introduce this survey as a tool for wider use in meeting ACGME requirements.
Methods:
The MBIâHSS was administered to residents in an academic otolaryngology residency training program on three separate occasions: at the beginning, middle, and end of different academic years. In addition, at the time of the third administration, the MBIâHSS was completed by faculty and staff in the same department. Surveys were completed and collected anonymously. Responses were scored against normative data from the MBIâHSS overall sample and the medicine subscale. Low, average, and high levels of burnout were identified for the individual categories of emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), and personal accomplishment (PA); average levels for each category were calculated.
Results:
Twentyâtwo residents completed the first survey, taken near the end of an academic year; 19 completed the second administration in the middle of the following academic year; and 24 completed the third survey at the beginning of the subsequent academic year. Thirteen faculty and 23 staff also completed the third survey. We found that three, one, and one residents reported high levels of burnout on the first, second, and third surveys, respectively. These figures compare to one faculty member and no staff members in the same department reporting high levels of burnout.
Conclusions:
The MBIâHSS is an established and validated tool for identifying burnout in resident physicians. Residency PDs may find the MBIâHSS useful as an aid in monitoring resident wellâbeing and stress. In our own department, we found levels of burnout comparable to those previously reported for residents and faculty in this specialty. Laryngoscope, 119:75â78, 2009
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Monitoring stress levels in postgraduate medical training
- Creators
- Justin D HillRichard J. H Smith
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Laryngoscope, Vol.119(1), pp.75-78
- DOI
- 10.1002/lary.20013
- PMID
- 19117300
- NLM abbreviation
- Laryngoscope
- ISSN
- 0023-852X
- eISSN
- 1531-4995
- Publisher
- Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company; Hoboken
- Number of pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Anatomy and Cell Biology; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Otolaryngology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984006402302771
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