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{ "pk": 13654, "title": "Intention to Leave Emergency Medicine: Mid-career Women Are at Increased Risk", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction:\n Burnout is prevalent among emergency physicians and may cause physicians to consider leaving the practice of emergency medicine (EM). This study sought to determine whether there is a gender difference in reporting burnout and seriously considering leaving the specialty of EM, and secondarily to explore the factors reported as contributing to burnout.\nMethods:\n This was a secondary analysis of the 2014 American Board of Emergency Medicine Longitudinal Survey of Emergency Physicians. We used multiple logistic regression to determine which factors were associated with reporting serious consideration of leaving EM, when stratified by years in practice and adjusting for individual, departmental, and institutional factors.\nResults:\n The response rate was 82%, (n = 868); 22.6% (194) were female and 77.4% (664) were males; and 83.9% (733) White. The mean age of men responding was significantly higher than women (52.7±11.9 vs. 44.9±10.4, p<0.001). Overall, there were no significant gender differences in reporting having had serious thoughts of leaving EM in either unmatched or age-matched analyses. More women reported that burnout was a significant problem, while men more often were equivocal as to whether it was a problem. When stratified by years in practice, mid-career women had a seven-fold increase in the odds ratio (OR) of seriously considered leaving EM, compared to men of similar years in practice (OR 7.07, 95% confidence interval, 2.45-20.39). Autonomy at work, control over working conditions, fair compensation, personal reward, and a sense of ownership were factors associated with a lower rate of reporting considering leaving EM.\nConclusion:\n Our findings suggest that the intention to leave EM is not more prevalent in women. However, mid-career women more often reported seriously considering leaving the specialty than mid-career men. Further research on the factors behind this finding in mid-career women in EM is needed.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Emergency Women" }, { "word": "Mid-career" }, { "word": "Women" }, { "word": "Attrition" } ], "section": "Provider Workforce", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s08f9bh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michelle", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Lall", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sarah", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Perman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver, Colorado", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nidhi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Garg", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hofstra/Northwell Health, Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kohn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northwell Health, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Long Island, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kristy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Whyte", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Vituity/DeKalb Emergency Physicians, Emory Decatur Hospital, Emory Hillandale Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Alexa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gips", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Denver, Colorado", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tracy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Madsen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jill", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Baren", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Judith", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Linden", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2020-03-16T19:30:09Z", "date_accepted": "2020-03-16T19:30:09Z", "date_published": "2020-08-21T20:36:41Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/13654/galley/7129/download/" } ] }