%0 Journal Article
%T Why Residents Quit: National Rates of and Reasons for Attrition Among Emergency Medicine Physicians in Training
%A Dave W. Lu
%A Jeffrey Druck
%A Jennifer Mitzman
%A Nicholas D. Hartman
%A Tania D. Strout
%J Archive of "Western Journal of Emergency Medicine".
%D 2019
%R 10.5811/westjem.2018.11.40449
%X Recruiting and retaining residents who will complete their emergency medicine (EM) training is vital, not only because residency positions are a limited and costly resource, but also to prevent the significant disruptions, increased workload, and low morale that may arise when a resident prematurely leaves a program. We investigated national rates of EM resident attrition and examined the reasons and factors associated with their attrition
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6404714/