Table 5.

Family medicine residency programme director distress (n = 260)^a in the United States

Emotional exhaustionb	25.0%
Depersonalizationc	10.3%
Depressive symptomd	25.3%

^aGender differences for all three distress measures were non-significant (P > 0.05).

^bPer cent reporting once a week (or more often) to the question: How often do you feel burned out from your work as a family medicine programme director?

^cPer cent reporting once a week (or more often) to the question: How often do you feel you’ve become more callous towards people since you took the job as a family medicine programme director?

^dPer cent reporting several days over the past 2 weeks (or more often) to the question: How often have you felt down, depressed or hopeless?