Upcoming Webinar: Beyond Burnout: How Gender Shapes Clinician Retention, WellBeing, and Workforce Stability

Leading experts will explore how gender influences clinician experience, Healthcare organizations have made clinician wellbeing a strategic priority. Yet despite growing awareness and investment, significant differences remain in how clinicians experience their work. Those differences can have important implications for burnout, professional fulfillment, retention, and workforce stability.

Research has consistently shown that women physicians report higher rates of burnout and lower levels of professional fulfillment than their male counterparts. But the reasons extend far beyond workload alone. Factors such as schedule control, workplace culture, perceived appreciation, advancement opportunities, documentation burden, caregiving responsibilities, and experiences of bias can shape clinician experiences in ways that traditional workforce strategies often overlook.

In this webinar, UCSF’s Dr. Lisa Rotenstein, Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation’s Dr. Stefanie Simmons, and Atalan’s Sisi Hu will explore how gender influences clinician wellbeing and retention, and what healthcare leaders can do to build more effective retention strategies.

Together, they’ll discuss:

• • What current research reveals about gender differences in burnout, professional fulfillment, and attrition

• • Why traditional approaches to clinician wellbeing may fail to address important differences in experience

• • The organizational, cultural, and operational factors that disproportionately impact women clinicians

• • How health systems can identify hidden sources of friction that contribute to disengagement and turnover risk

• • What leaders can do to create environments where all clinicians can thrive

• • Why understanding these differences is essential not only for wellbeing, but also for workforce stability, access to care, and long-term organizational performance

Because effective retention strategies begin with understanding that clinicians do not all experience the workplace in the same way.

The future of clinician wellbeing may depend on our ability to recognize those differences and respond to them thoughtfully.