What is Work-Life Balance?

The Cambridge dictionary defines work-life balance as “the amount of time you spend doing your job compared with the amount of time you spend with your family and doing things you enjoy.”

For physicians, however, defining what work time means is complex in modern medicine. Typical physician duties include patient contact, administrative tasks, charting, teaching, meetings, and community outreach activities. Individual and organizational factors may affect burnout in physicians and advance practice clinicians (APCs), such as the addition of mobile technology which can impede personal time with work.

Burnout levels have risen four points from 61% in 2021 to 65% in 2022 of surveyed physicians. Among the associated physicians with burnout, 75% have stated that their work-life balance has deteriorated within the past year (2022).

What contributes to Work-Life Balance?
• Sleep
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Interactions with family and friends
• Pursuits of enjoyment

Submitted as part of the BMS-515 Public Health and US Healthcare System course for MU-COM Research Day.

Creator

• Mustaklem, Basil

Language

• English

Keyword

• patient contact

• physicians

• advance practice clinicians (APCs)

• Burnout levels

• work-life balance

Date created

• 2023

Resource type

• Poster

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