A recent study finds that personal and workplace factors predicting burnout largely overlap with factors that contribute to depressive symptoms.
The new study, which appears in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, was led by Constance Guille, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, and Lisa Rotenstein, M.D., an internal medicine resident at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, among others. “There is a long-standing thought that burnout is associated with workplace factors and that depressive symptoms are associated with workplace factors but also heavily influenced by personal factors,” explained Rotenstein. “We found that the
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