Cardiologists are working to reduce their burnout by changing their environment. The most common changes were addressing productivity pressures with leadership and making workflow or staff changes to reduce their burnout, a recent Medscape report found.
The "Medscape Cardiologist Burnout & Depression Report 2024," published March 29, surveyed 9,226 physicians across more than 29 specialities between July 5 and Oct. 9.
Seventeen percent of cardiologists reported that their burnout was so severe that they may leave medicine, and only 3% said burnout does not affect their life.
Cardiologists said the top contributors to burnout were too many bureaucratic tasks (69%), too many hours at work (43%) and a lack of respect from administrators/employers, colleagues or staff (40%).
Here are the ways cardiologists said they changed their work environment to reduce burnout (respondents could choose more than one answer):
Spoke with hospital/group administration about productivity pressures: 29%
Make workflow or staff changes to ease workload: 24%
Reduced work hours: 19%
Changed work settings/got a different job: 19%
Sold practice/put it up for sale: 12%
Other: 5%
None of these: 33%