Publication date: Jul 15, 2025
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) physicians work in stressful environments and are at risk for burnout. Grit and resilience have been shown to protect against burnout in various medical specialties, but this relationship has not been explored among PCCM physicians. The purpose of this study was to determine associations between grit and resilience with burnout, academic productivity, and COVID-19-related clinical experiences in PCCM fellows and faculty. A cross-sectional, multi-institutional survey was conducted during the 2022-2023 academic year among PCCM fellows and faculty from six academic institutions. Measures included the Short Grit Scale, Connor-Davidson Resilience scale, single-item measures of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, ICU-level COVID-19 experience, and academic productivity metrics. Mixed-effects proportional odds regression models assessed relationships between grit, resilience, burnout, and academic performance, considering clustering within institutions. One hundred and thirty-one participants were surveyed with a response rate of 40. 3%. Median scores for grit, burnout, and resiliency were 3. 8 (0-5), 4 (0-12), and 31 (0-40), respectively. Higher grit correlated with less burnout (OR=0. 34, p
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Pccm | Academic Productivity |
| Physicians | Burnout |
| Stressful | COVID-19 |
| Grit | |
| resilience |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | burnout |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | MESH | emotional exhaustion |
| disease | MESH | depersonalization |