• Demanding workload
• Number of nights on call
• A partner who is also a physician
• Having children to raise
• Recently making a medical error
• Conflicts between work and home
• Being midway through their career
• Spending less than 20 percent of their time on meaningful aspects of work
How to build resistance to burnout
• Consider how priorities, feelings and actions affect stress and burnout
• Create a personal mission statement
• Begin a gratitude journal
• Turn to peers for support
• Learn something new
• Record inspiring patient stories
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