Table 1.
Physician Demographics, Job Characteristics, Sense of Calling, Rewarding Hours, Relationships with Patients, and Burnout (n = 1289)
| Variables | N (%) |
|---|---|
| Female | 474 (36.8) |
| Race/ethnicity | |
| Non-Hispanic white | 907 (70.4) |
| Asian | 203 (15.8) |
| Hispanic | 62 (4.8) |
| African American | 61 (4.7) |
| Other | 56 (4.3) |
| US born | |
| Immigrated | 374 (29.0) |
| US born | 915 (71.0) |
| Physician specialty | |
| Primary care | 516 (40.0) |
| Specialist | 773 (60.0) |
| Practice year category | |
| Practice years ≥0, <10 | 289 (22.4) |
| Practice years ≥10, <20 | 376 (29.2) |
| Practice years ≥20 | 624 (48.4) |
| Annual income category | |
| Income <$100,000 | 235 (18.2) |
| Income ≥$100,000, <$200,000 | 469 (36.4) |
| Income ≥$200,000, <$300,000 | 340 (26.4) |
| Income ≥$300,000 | 245 (19.0) |
| Academic medical center | |
| Non-academic medical center | 757 (58.7) |
| Academic medical center | 532 (41.3) |
| Working for medically underserved populations | |
| Not underserved | 720 (55.9) |
| Underserved | 569 (44.1) |
| Practice of medicine is a calling | |
| Strongly or somewhat disagree | 150 (11.6) |
| Somewhat agree | 537 (41.7) |
| Strongly agree | 602 (46.7) |
| Personally rewarding hours per day | |
| Hours ≥0, <2.5 | 230 (17.8) |
| Hours ≥2.5, <5.0 | 437 (33.9) |
| Hours ≥5.0, <7.5 | 292 (22.7) |
| Hours ≥7.5 | 330 (25.6) |
| Meaningful, long-term relationships with patients | |
| None | 279 (21.6) |
| A few | 428 (33.2) |
| Many | 408 (31.7) |
| Most | 174 (13.5) |
| Feeling of being burned out | |
| No | 702 (54.5) |
| Yes | 587 (45.5) |
Note: percentages in parentheses were adjusted for probability weight, primary sampling units, and strata in survey data analysis