Personal and Professional Factors Associated With Work-Life Integration Among US Physicians

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The modern medical profession is characterized by long hours, inflexible schedules, emotionally taxing situations, and a culture of prioritizing patient care over personal needs that put health care workers at risk for conflicts between work and home responsibilities. These conflicts result in poor work-life integration (WLI), in which an individual must choose which of multiple competing interests to prioritize in light of limited time or other resources. Dissatisfaction with WLI is consistently more prevalent among physicians relative to the general working population and is strongly associated with burnout, intention to reduce work hours, and intention to leave practice.1-8 Physicians also more commonly report that their careers negatively impact relationships with their children relative to the general working population, an effect most pronounced for women physicians.9

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