Provides an overview of burnout, including its components, effects, and how to eliminate its triggers.
Galaxy Vets announced1 Based on expert literature and its own research, the company has published a paper titled “From Survival to Thrive: Remove These 6 Burnout Triggers from Your Veterinary Clinic” to help reduce burnout in the veterinary field. Published a paper.
burnout statistics
A recent survey was displayed2 About 70% of veterinarians have lost a colleague to suicide. 2021 AVMA findings make veterinary careers also an increasingly unattractive option3 Only 47% of veterinarians would recommend this profession, up from 76% in 2005.Four Additional research from Cornell University revealed that the sector loses $2 billion in revenue annually due to burnout and staff turnover.Five
According to Galaxy Vets,1 This demonstrates the need for systematic solutions to address emotional and physical well-being and work environment issues at the organizational level, starting with finding and eliminating the root causes of burnout.
research result
Work overload is often thought to be the main cause of work stress, but it’s not the only one. Dr. Christina Maslach, an American social psychologist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, has studied occupational burnout for decades, and her Maslach Burnout Inventory is now It is considered the gold standard for assessing burnout in healthcare workers.1
In 1999, Maslach and Michael P. Leiter devised a model, The Six Domains of Work Life, to outline the organizational context and causes of burnout.6 The six dimensions of burnout triggers include control, workload, reward, community, fairness, and value. This illustrates the complexity of burnout and how its origins stem from team cultures, management styles, and reward systems, which are heavily dictated by values as the moral compass to guide an organization. .
Galaxy Vets research paper
With this information and recent research, Galaxy Vets continues to work to find ways to systematically address burnout at the administrative level of veterinary medicine, including through our latest papers.1
“This is a creative collaboration of experts looking at the classic causes of burnout through the lens of their experience working in veterinary hospitals,” said Ivan Zak, CEO of Galaxy Vets.
Each section is organized as follows1:
- Burnout trigger explained
- Impact on veterinarians
- A comment from a Reddit vet thread illustrating these situations
- Veterinarian Tips on How to Eliminate Triggers
- actionable tasks
The paper can be downloaded for free here: https://galaxyvets.com/learning-center/eliminate-these-six-burnout-triggers-from-your-veterinary-hospital
References
- Danylenko G. Remove these six burnout triggers from your veterinary clinic. Galaxy Bets. April 5, 2023. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://galaxyvets.com/learning-center/eliminate-these-six-burnout-triggers-from-your-veterinary-hospital
- Studies show that nearly 70% of veterinarians have lost a colleague or associate to suicide. GuardianJune 11, 2022. Accessed May 5, 2023. -suicide research-discovery
- Volk JO, Schimmack U, Strand EB, et al. An overview of the Merck Animal Health Veterinarian Wellbeing Study III and Veterinary Support Staff Study. J Am Vet Med Assoc2022;260(12):1547-1553. Doi: 10.2460/javma.22.03.0134.
- 2015 dvm360 job satisfaction survey. dvm360April 28, 2015. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://www.dvm360.com/view/2015-dvm360-job-satisfaction-survey
- Neill CL, Hansen CR, Salois M. Economic costs of burnout in veterinary medicine. front veterinary science2022;9:814104. Doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.814104.
- Leiter MP, Maslach C. Six domains of work life: a model of the organizational situation of burnout. J Health Hum Serv Adm1999;21(4):472-89.