The Effects Of Burnout Among Medical Students

Melvin Kooner, an anthropologist who entered medical school in his mid-thirties, characterizes physicians as “tough, brilliant, knowledgeable, hardworking, and hard on themselves.” (Kooner, 1998, pg. 374) Many personal conversations with medical students, residents, and attending physicians from a variety of specialties confirm Kooner’s assessment. Doctors work hard, work long hours, deal regularly with life-and-death situations, and make substantial personal sacrifices to practice in their field. These attributes of medical practice can provide a great deal of satisfaction to the aspiring or practicing physician, but can also be a source of professional and personal distress. Burnout or the experience of long-term emotional and physical

It is important to know how to manage stress in academic life as it is learning about how to balance work and academic life. It is also important for students after graduating and creates self-awareness such as weakness in them.

Physician burnout is a growing crisis, coming to affect more than half of practicing physicians. Defined as a long-term stress reaction, burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion and distress characterized by cynicism, depersonalization, poor judgement, and feelings of doubt in self-competence and work value. Because work in the medical field often involves constant demands and intense interactions with people around-the-clock, the prevalence of burnout in medical care is much higher than in other professions. Past health care reforms resulting in changes in medicine have contributed to physician burnout, with physicians citing excessive workload, an inefficient work environment, increasing computerization, and the medical education system as reasons for burnout. Caused by a variety of reasons,

Burnout among graduate students can lead to emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. Students might not perform to the best of their abilities, and experience a decline in their sense of personal accomplishments (Maslach, Leiter, and Jackson, 2012). It can be difficult for them to rationalize that their feelings are a result of stress and high demands, something that can trigger feelings of insecurity and anxiety. The lack of self-esteem can be difficult to rebuild, unless the student is provided with adequate support from t their environment.

Whilst students experience the education and the learning course, they might pick out diverse situations linked to academic activities as worrying. Consequently, it is likely that they employ coping strategies to reduce the effects of stress. On the other hand, when these strategies are unsuccessful stress ruins and may lead the students to experience burnout.24 In the current study burnout was found in 79.9% and the burnout subscales among the studied students, were 56.8 % and 60% personal burnout and work-related burnout respectively. whereas 38.2% and 28.9% suffered teacher and colleague burnout correspondingly. In another study done by Chin RWA.2016, in Malaysia using CBI on medical students (67.9%) medical students experienced burnout. Personal burnout was the highest (81.6%), followed by work-related burnout (73.7%) and client-related burnout (68.6%).25 The prevalence of burnout amongst medical students has been found to be comparatively high, between 45% and 71% of students affected in different studies.20,26,27,28 In the current study, work related burnout(academic activities) higher than personal burnout this may be explained as burnout in those students is mainly due to the academic overburden more than the emotional exhaustion. Thus immediate intervention should be done by college administrator to relieve the load on students regarding academic activities.

Previous studies have been conducted that investigated the relationship of various factors with stress and burnout in the field of school counseling (Wilkerson & Bellini, 2006; Wilkerson, 2009). However, there is a gap in literature  when it comes to examining role stress in school counseling (Culbreth, Scarborough,

One of the major issues in the healthcare world right now is the issue of doctor burnout. “A recent study from the Mayo Clinic showed that in 2011, 45.5% of doctors reported that they felt burned out, and that number has now risen to 54.4% in 2014” (Cahplan, 2016). Burn out is a serious concern, because it can result from a combination of many factors ranging from “emotional exhaustion (the feeling of being all used up), depersonalization (treating people in an unfeeling way), and even a reduced sense of personal accomplishment (feeling like a failure)” (DuPré, 2010, p.94).

Although there are far too many factors to adequately discuss in this paper, a review of the various stressors are a worthwhile activity. Candid and honest answers to certain questions can assist in techniques to allieviate stress. “How have I overcome stress in the past?” ”How much of my stress is work related?” “What characteristics do I tend to have when I am stressed?” How can I impliment stress management strategies in oreder to balance my life?” Currently, I am actively engaged in answering such questions and developing and improving copimg strategies. I have found much success in most circumstances. There exist some stress with respect to the volume of classwork given, but it is much less when compared to the esteem and feelings of self-efficacy gained. My current studies seems the have served as a major reducer of stress. There is however, much room for improvement.

In recent years, medical experts have expressed alarm about the growing problem of burnout in the human services field. Burnout is a state of being mentally, physically, or emotionally exhausted as a result of various kinds of stress. These stressors could vary but it most likely to be job related. Some of the negative symptoms of burnout include feeling drained, having a sense of failure or isolating oneself. It occurs cross culturally and can affect professionals in a variety of occupations. However, burnout is not inevitable. This paper examines the various symptoms that indicate burnout and also how to implement a plan to help avoid stress and combat burnout while working in the field of human services.

Nurses, always involved in patient care, sometimes experience detrimental effects with prolonged stress or “burnout” during their career throughout the years. Burnout is defined as an extended response to physical or emotional stressors. Some examples of these stressors are; memories of witnessing death, patient and family suffering, emotional stress of losing patients, feeling emotionally and physically drained, or emotional disconnect from staff which can all contribute to burnout. As a result, nurses can experience; exhaustion, anxiety, dissatisfaction and low capacity. Overall, burnout can have negative effects not just on the emotional and physical health of nurses but also on; patient satisfaction, outcomes and mortality of nurses and patients. Although, there are ways to reduce or prevent these negative effects of burnout from manifesting. For example, nurses can apply interventions to reduce these risks including; staff support, onsite counselors and psychiatrists for nurses and salary increases and reimbursement opportunities for nurses through clinical ladder programs. Nurses can also start by just saying no to certain requests, being aware of their tolerance level, by taking care of themselves and having fun outside of work. On the other hand, others do not think nursing burnout is fatal and nurses just need a break from their job to initiate change. Although, the issue of burnout is prevalent in nurse’s careers which need to be addressed more in society in

In many hospitals and clinics, workloads for nurses are high which in many cases can result in job dissatisfaction and burnout. The job of nurses are not easy, they work twelve hours of shift with emergency care. It is very important to have the good workplace where the work done by nurses are valued, otherwise soon nurses with start to get “burnout”. The term burnout initially started to describe the point when jet or rocket engine stops operating but later it was used for the humans especially for the job like nursing. Nurses are the one who spend most of the time with the patients and if they are happy with their work, they will keep patients happy. In the hospital settings, patients’ health is always a priority and to keep that priority

Thesis:  Today I will discuss about sources and effects of student stress and efficient ways to manage this emotional and physical strain.

Stress is no new phenomenon. It’s been around as long as man and has captivated scholars and physicians alike. With the growing demand for degrees in the professional world comes the growth of the number of college students. The relationship between stress and college students has become the subject of on-going research. Several studies show that stress in college students is increasing with time and the authors of those studies are attributing this to an increased number of students. Other research seems to indicate that it isn’t necessarily the stress that is increasing but the awareness of it. Increased awareness of stress, and its unique toll on individuals, allows colleges and students to recognize

Psychological stress is pressure placed on a person to adapt, cope, or adjust to a situation (Rathus, 2016, p.284). The result of prolonged stress can affect a person’s mood, pleasure experience, and have harmful effects on physical health (Rathus, 2016, p.284). Society in the twenty first century places high demands on people. Technology makes it very difficult to separate work life, school life, and home life. Today, society places a high value on a busy lifestyle for individuals. For example, many places of business are open twenty-four hours a day. In addition to societal pressures, attending a university adds to the stressors a person may experience. Going to school not only includes classroom time but it also includes homework,

When students are going through a stressful period in their studies, such as exam time or when assignments are due, they often feel exhausted and sometimes unable to manage their time properly in order to get their work done on time, or simply not being able to cope with the nature of the work. It is argued that students who are experiencing emotional exhaustion will perform poorly in their studies (Salanova, Schaufeli, Martinez & Breso, 2008). This is because students who feel exhausted will experience feelings of demotivation, irritability, detachment and cynicism towards their work. While those who have positive feelings