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Burnout in Women Physicians

Prevention, Treatment, and Management

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  • Includes case vignettes that illustrate each point
  • Concludes with solutions to improve prevention, treatment, and outcomes
  • Written by experts in women’s mental health and physician burnout

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. How Do Women Physicians Differ from Their Male Counterparts?

  2. Drivers of Burnout That Disproportionately Affect Women and Their Potential Solutions

  3. Empowering the Next Generation of Women Physicians

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About this book

This book is the first to dissect the factors contributing to burnout that impact women physicians and seeks to appropriately address these issues. The book begins by establishing the differences in epidemiology between female physicians and their male counterparts, including  rates of burnout, depression and suicide, chosen fields, caregiving responsibilities at home, career tradeoffs in dual physician marriages, patient satisfaction and outcomes, academic rank, leadership positions, salary, and turnover. The second part of the book explores the drivers of physician burnout that disproportionately affect women, each chapter beginning with a case vignette.  This section covers many issues that often go unrecognized including unconscious bias, sexual harassment, gender role conflicts, domestic responsibilities, depression, addiction, financial stress, and the impact related to reproductive health such as pregnancy and breastfeeding.  The book concludes by focusing on strategies to prevent and/or mitigate burnout among individual women physicians across the career lifespan.This section also includes recommendations to change the culture of medicine and the systems that contribute to burnout.

Burnout in Women Physicians is an excellent resource for physicians across all specialties who are concerned with physician wellness and burnout, including students, residents, fellows, and attending physicians.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, USA

    Cynthia M. Stonnington

  • Division of Women’s Health Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, USA

    Julia A Files

About the editors

Cynthia M. Stonnington

Mayo Clinic

Department of Psychiatry & Psychology

Scottsdale

Arizona

USA


Julia A Files

Mayo Clinic

Division of Women's Health Internal Med

Scottsdale

Arizona

USA



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Burnout in Women Physicians

  • Book Subtitle: Prevention, Treatment, and Management

  • Editors: Cynthia M. Stonnington, Julia A Files

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44459-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44458-7Published: 21 July 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44459-4Published: 15 June 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 618

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychiatry, General Practice / Family Medicine, Public Health, Emergency Medicine

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