JMIR Perioperative Medicine is inviting submissions to a new theme issue focused on Clinician Wellness and Burnout in Perioperative Medicine. Recognizing the unique challenges faced by perioperative clinicians—including anesthesiologists (trainees and attendings), perioperative advanced practice providers (nurse practitioners and physician assistants), nurse anesthetists, surgeons, and perioperative/co-management hospitalists, this call for papers aims to explore the critical issue of burnout within perioperative medicine.
Perioperative medicine is a high-stakes field where clinicians regularly encounter intense schedules, high-stress environments, staffing shortages, and the demanding responsibility of safeguarding patient outcomes. These pressures can significantly contribute to clinician burnout, manifesting as emotional exhaustion, poor clinician health, decreased job satisfaction, depersonalization, increased risk of medical errors, and job attrition.
The scope of this call for papers includes but is not limited to:
- Impact of Automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Digital Health Technologies on Burnout: Studies investigating the potential impact of AI or digital health technologies on clinician wellness and physical and cognitive workload. Examples include the impact of generative AI on efficiency or patient safety (eg., workflow automation inside and outside the operating room, ambient transcription, clinical text summarization, diagnostic reasoning).
- Tools to Measure Prevalence of Burnout: Studies describing tools to measure the prevalence of burnout among perioperative clinicians across various demographics and organizational settings.
- Drivers of Burnout: Studies examining risk factors such as clinician- or patient-related issues, workplace culture, resource availability (eg, telemedicine), electronic health records, and concerns about AI use in perioperative medicine.
- Impact of Burnout on Patient Outcomes: Research investigating the impact of clinician burnout on perioperative patient care, safety, outcomes, and experience.
- Interventions to Ameliorate Burnout and Promote Clinician Wellness: Strategies targeting burnout at the personal, institutional, or policy levels, including real-world examples such as support during patient safety events, self-care initiatives, and advocacy for national or organizational reforms.
How to Submit
To submit an article to JMIR Perioperative Medicine, please visit the submission page. Consult our Instructions for Authors for more information on how to submit a manuscript.
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2025
Submission Guidelines
We will not accept articles that are solely written using generative AI or other AI tools. For more information, please refer to the JMIR Publications editorial policy and this Knowledge Base article.
All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review, and accepted articles will be published as part of a special issue titled “Clinician Wellness and Burnout in Perioperative Medicine.”
All articles will be shared and published rapidly through the following mechanisms:
- All peer-reviewed articles will be immediately and permanently made open access. This is the standard for all titles within the JMIR Publications portfolio.
- Articles can be made immediately available (with a DOI) in JMIR Preprints after submission if authors choose to enable this service by selecting the preprint option at submission.
Submissions not reviewed or accepted for publication in JMIR Perioperative Medicine may be offered cascading peer review or transfer to other JMIR Publications journals according to standard policies. Authors are encouraged to submit study protocols or grant proposals to JMIR Research Protocols before data acquisition in order to preregister their study as a registered report.