Half of Canadian female orthopedic surgeons report career burnout
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Key takeaways:
- Half of Canadian female orthopedic surgeons reported career burnout.
- Correlations with the Gender Bias Scale questionnaire indicate a link between gender bias and career burnout.
Results published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery found a relationship between career burnout and barriers to gender equity, with 50.5% of Canadian female orthopedic surgeons reporting career burnout.
Using the Gender Bias Scale (GBS) questionnaire, Laurie A. Hiemstra, MD, PhD, FRCSC, and colleagues electronically surveyed 330 Canadian female orthopedic surgeons about career burnout, job satisfaction and their role in the workplace.
Among the 218 respondents, 77.1% reported that they were satisfied with their job and 66.1% reported being satisfied with their role in the workplace; however, 50.5% of respondents reported career burnout. Researchers found career burnout was positively correlated with higher-order GBS factors of male privilege, devaluation and disproportionate constraints on the GBS questionnaire. Additionally, researchers noted career burnout was negatively correlated with surgeon age and job satisfaction.
“Burnout was significantly correlated with three higher-order GBS domains and six lower-order GBS barriers, indicating a link between gender bias and burnout among female surgeons,” researchers wrote in the study. “Changing the workplace by addressing gender inequities could be a focus for modifying the current levels of burnout for female surgeons,” they concluded.
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