Addressing Rheumatology Resident Well-Being Is Critical to the Rheumatology Workforce and the Care of Our Patients.

Matriculating medical students have lower levels of burnout compared to age-matched college graduates, 1 and yet residents and practicing physicians have higher rates of burnout compared to the general population, 2,3 suggesting that medical training may play a role in increasing rates of burnout. Burnout, characterized by Maslach and Jackson as the triad of depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and loss of a sense of personal accomplishment, 4 is well documented in physicians around the world and has been shown to be increasing over time, particularly after the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. 5,6 .