Half of all orthopedic surgeons may not enjoy their work—and that depressing statistic prompted a team from The University of Texas at Austin to develop and test a new “happiness” measure which, the team hopes, will capture the “positive attributes to which a team aspires.” Their work, “Development of a Brief, Positively Framed Care Team Experience Measure,” was published in the December 3, 2024 edition of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.
Co-author David Ring, M.D., Ph.D., professor and associate chair for Faculty Academic Affairs at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, told OTW, “We have a long-standing interest in the importance of enjoying one’s work and feeling appreciated and useful. The process started with University of Texas Health Austin at Dell Medical School seeking a brief, positively framed, team-oriented measure of clinician and care team experience to monitor our culture and the results of interventions to improve it.”
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