CMAJ Podcasts
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Canadian Medical Association Journal
Emergency physician burnout and attrition
36 minutes Posted Aug 10, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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Emergency departments across Canada are seeing record patient volumes, bed shortages and overcrowding. A new longitudinal study in CMAJ, "Emergency physician burnout and attrition in Canada: a longitudinal study," finds physician burnout now above pandemic-era levels and driving reduced hours and departures from the specialty. Dr. Kerstin de Wit, the study's lead author, an emergency physician and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at Queen's University, reports that 65% of respondents to the Janua...