Journal of Healthcare Management Conclusions: “To be successful as a physician, particularly in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment, requires both cognitive and emotional intelligence. Existing evidence suggests that investing in 360-degree screening of physician EI and offering education and other developmental interventions, where appropriate, to improve EI may bolster the historically neglected core clinical competencies......

While healthcare has readily adopted Pay-for-Performance relating to technical skills, perhaps the time has come to embrace Pay-for-Professionalism for physicians. Should we admit that these non-technical skills matter enough for a new approach? If physician productivity is important enough to be incentivized, shouldn’t we do the same for professionalism? A wealth of research has shown a correlation......

From the 2013 Medscape survey on physician burnout, here is a sampling of the highest and lowest physician burnout rates by specialty:   Highest rate of physician burnout: Emergency medicine (51%) Critical care (50%) Family medicine (43%)   Lowest rate of physician burnout: Pathology (32%) Psychiatry (33%) (Tied) Ophthalmology (35%) Pediatrics (35%) Rheumatology (35%)  ...