Abstract
Health care organizations continue to search for solutions to mitigate physician burnout and its effect on provider mental health, turnover, and patient care. Emergency Care Specialists, a large independent emergency medicine practice based in Michigan, has found that the creation of a sabbatical program of recurrent month-long blocks of paid time off has resulted in sustained career satisfaction, extremely low rates of physician attrition, and decreased feelings of burnout. A program of this nature can be initiated by other health care entities in a cost-effective manner.
