Is Burnout Infectious? Understanding Drivers of Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among Academic Infectious Diseases Physicians

Priya Nori; Rachel Bartash; Kelsie Cowman; Melissa Dackis; Liise-Anne Pirofski

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz092

Is Burnout Infectious? Understanding Drivers of Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among Academic Infectious Diseases Physicians

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Feb 23;6(4):ofz092. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz092. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Authors

Priya Nori¹, Rachel Bartash¹, Kelsie Cowman¹, Melissa Dackis², Liise-Anne Pirofski^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Montefiore Medical Center.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.

Abstract

Burnout is pervasive in academic medicine. We administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory and an Infectious Diseases (ID) job description survey to our ID faculty. Respondents' burnout (>50%) and job satisfaction (>90%) were each high. Although burnout may be balanced by job satisfaction, the relationship between the 2 deserves further study.

Keywords: burnout; infectious diseases specialists; job description; job satisfaction.