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Executive Leadership and Physician Well-Being: Nine Organizational Strategies to Promote Engagement and Reduce Burnout

Type: Peer-reviewed Literature

Abstract: These are challenging times for health care executives. The health care field is experiencing unprecedented changes that threaten the survival of many health care organizations. To successfully navigate these challenges, health care executives need committed and productive physicians working in collaboration with organization leaders. Unfortunately, national studies suggest that at least 50% of US physicians are experiencing professional burnout, indicating that most executives face this challenge with a disillusioned physician workforce. …

Authors: Tait D. Shanafelt, MD, and John H. Noseworthy, MD, CEO
Source:  Mayo Clinic Proceedings January 2017;92(1):129-146

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