Turnover and Burnout Among Family Physicians

Dhruv Khullar; Lawrence P Casalino; Richard G Kronick; Lars E Peterson; Ming Tai-Seale; Jiebing Wen; Manyao Zhang; Amelia M Bond

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2026.0271

Turnover and Burnout Among Family Physicians

JAMA Intern Med. 2026 May 1;186(5):635-637. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2026.0271.

Authors

Dhruv Khullar^{1

2

3

4}, Lawrence P Casalino^{1

3

4}, Richard G Kronick⁵, Lars E Peterson^{6

7}, Ming Tai-Seale⁸, Jiebing Wen⁹, Manyao Zhang^{1

4}, Amelia M Bond^{1

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
³ Cornell Health Policy Center, New York, New York.
⁴ The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership, New York, New York.
⁵ Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
⁶ American Board of Family Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky.
⁷ Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
⁸ Department of Family Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego.
⁹ Division of Health Outcomes, College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin.

PMID: 41910962
PMCID: PMC13036631 (available on 2027-03-30)
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2026.0271

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study explores the association between burnout and departure from the profession or move to a different practice among family physicians across the US.