• Education for Primary Care
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Preventing burnout among general practitioners: is there a possible route?

  • Helena Nielsen MD
  • Charlotte Tulinius MD PhD MHPE

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN IN THIS AREA

  • A substantial proportion of GPs show signs of burnout; there is some evidence of beneficial interventions.

WHAT THIS WORK ADDS

  • This study presents the first empirical findings on how prevention of burnout can be specifically incorporated in supervision groups.

Suggestions for future research

  • Longitudinal prospective studies about how supervision groups may contribute to the prevention of burnout should be conducted.

Keywords: 

Attachments

preventing_burnout_205.pdf

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the participating GPs and their supervisor for the confidence they have shown me to give me admittance to this part of their professional lives. The project was supported by the Committee of Multipractice Studies in General Practice, the research fund of Danish Regions and PLU.

Ethical approval

There was no need for approval of the ethical committee. (According to Danish law ethics approval is not needed for this sort of research.)

Conflicts of interest

Charlotte Tulinius has been supervisor for Helena Nielsen on this part of the research project. The project is part of a larger PhD study. There were no personal relationships between any of the authors to either the group of GPs or to the supervisor.

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Accepted date

June, 2009