Addressing Burnout Among Medical Assistants

Timothy Seay-Morrison, EdD, LCSW, co-author of the research article called, Factors Affecting Burnout Among Medical Assistants, joins the Healthcare Experience Matters podcast this week to discuss the study. 

Dr. Seay-Morrison’s article appeared in the Journal of Healthcare Management. He sat down with our podcast to discuss the issue of burnout among medical assistants, and he shared forward thinking ideas for addressing burnout overall.  

With Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California, Dr. Morrison is Executive Director of Ambulatory Care and Service Lines. 

There is an established amount of research dedicated to burnout among physicians. It is a major topic of discussion throughout healthcare, but what about medical assistants? 

“There's a lot of literature about the increasing burnout among physicians in our world. I think a lot of people are very familiar with that, but nobody had studied medical assistants,” Dr. Seay-Morrison said. 

Learn more about today's podcast: https://healthcareexperience.org/medical-assistants 

You can learn more about Dr. Seay-Morrison’s article in the Journal of Healthcare Management: https://journals.lww.com/jhmonline/Abstract/2021/04000/Factors_Affecting_Burnout_Among_Medical_Assistants.7.aspx