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900 gap statements mined from Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 5,644 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • The paper identifies a gap in the current support systems for orthopedic surgeons, which can lead to maladaptive coping strategies like self-medication. It notes that the current culture of invincibility in the medical field can prevent surgeons from seeking help. The study highlights the need for structural changes to improve the well-being of orthopedic surgeons.

    Von ASS bis Zopiclon – der Beipackzettel für die orthopädische Karriere · 2026 · DOI

  • One challenge is the stigma surrounding mental health issues, which can make it difficult for mental healthcare professionals to disclose. Another challenge is the lack of understanding of the barriers and facilitators of disclosure among mental healthcare professionals.

    Mental Healthcare Professionals’ Own Mental Health Disclosure to their Supervisor: Investigating Barriers and Facilitators, Experiences, and Needs · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need for a reliable and multidimensional tool to assess psychological safety among health and social care workers. Prior measures of psychological safety may not capture the complex dimensions of psychological safety. The study aims to address this gap by validating the NPSS.

    Validation of the Neuroception of Psychological Safety Scale (NPSS) Among Health and Social Care Workers in the UK · 2024 · DOI

  • The study addresses the gap in understanding the experiences of former teachers that led to their exit from the profession. The research gap includes the need to identify themes contributing to teacher attrition. The study highlights the importance of understanding the social and psychological effects of the pandemic on teachers.

    Examining Teacher Attrition through the Experiences of Former Teachers before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic · 2024 · DOI

  • There is a need to investigate the impact of burnout and impostor syndrome on self-esteem and academic performance in medical students. The study aims to explore the importance of gender and cultural differences in this matter.

    The Predictive Value of Burnout and Impostor Syndrome on Medical Students’ Self-Esteem and Academic Performance: A Cross-Sectional Study · 2024 · DOI

  • The need for student services staff to fill the gap in support due to cuts in health services resources.

    Stretched at Both Ends: Pressure on Student Services and the Impact on Academic Staff at UK Universities · 2024 · DOI

  • The gap in the current literature is the lack of understanding of the relationship between social identity incompatibility and mental health in students from ethnic minority backgrounds. Prior studies have shown that students from ethnic minority backgrounds are more vulnerable to developing mental health disorders, but the role of social identity incompatibility is not yet clear.

    The Effects of Social Identity Incompatibility on Student Mental Health · 2024 · DOI

  • Future research should explore the long-term impacts of systemic factors and post-COVID-19 dynamics.

    Beyond the Frontlines: Burnout Among Emergency Healthcare Providers in Jordan · 2026 · DOI

  • Despite growing attention, little is known about how burnout and engagement evolve within the different phases of medical education or which factors shape these outcomes within each phase.

    Burnout and Engagement Within Medical Education: A Repeated Measures Study on Their Evolution and Main Determinants · 2026 · DOI

  • These findings highlight the need for further research into factors underlying the relationship between introversion and imposter phenomenon in medicine, and how professional cultures may shape imposter phenomenon experiences across diverse groups of trainees and physicians.

    Quiet Doubts: Exploring the Relationship between Introversion, Demographic Characteristics, and Imposter Phenomenon among Canadian Medical Students, Residents and Practicing Physicians · 2026 · DOI

  • However, the relationship between introversion and imposter phenomenon remains poorly understood, particularly among marginalized demographic groups who may already be more susceptible to imposter feelings.

    Quiet Doubts: Exploring the Relationship between Introversion, Demographic Characteristics, and Imposter Phenomenon among Canadian Medical Students, Residents and Practicing Physicians · 2026 · DOI

  • Explicit wellness competencies were associated with more evaluation and reporting practices; whether they improve program effectiveness remains unclear.

    Widespread Programs, Limited Evidence: How U.S. MD-Granting Medical Schools Define, Measure, and Evaluate Student Well-Being Efforts · 2026 · DOI

  • Yet it remains unclear how such programmatic conditions interact with individual experiences of belonging to shape wellbeing.

    Training climate matters: programmatic openness, individual belonging, and trainee mistreatment in graduate medical education · 2026 · DOI

  • However, their mental health treatment-seeking behaviours remain poorly understood.

    Disability, mental health symptom recognition, and treatment-seeking in resident physicians with depressive symptoms · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could explore interventions such as maintaining lower student-to-instructor ratios, bolstering structured feedback systems, increasing simulation-based learning opportunities, and integrating resilience training into health science courses.

    Clinical Skill Anxiety and Its Determinants Among Clinical‐Year Health Science Students in Ethiopia: An Institutional‐Based Cross‐Sectional Study · 2026 · DOI

  • Existing knowledge is largely inferred from broader research on burnout and secondary trauma, leaving a gap in understanding how 'not knowing' shapes the professional and personal lives of emergency nurses.

    “Sometimes my job is like doing a quiz but never getting the answers”: Emergency nurses' experience of patient outcome ambiguity – a survey study · 2026 · DOI

  • Although outcome ambiguity has been linked to occupational distress, its nature and impact remain poorly understood.

    “Sometimes my job is like doing a quiz but never getting the answers”: Emergency nurses' experience of patient outcome ambiguity – a survey study · 2026 · DOI

  • A gap in the literature regarding commensality groups is understanding the mechanism of this well-being intervention.

    Actualizing Leaders to Inspire a Group Network (ALIGN): Feasibility and Pilot of Implementing a Commensality Group Program for Leaders in a Pediatric Healthcare Setting · 2026 · DOI

  • Working as part of an integrated team has been identified as a mitigator and exacerbator of burnout, however, this relationship is not well understood in pediatric chronic pain care.

    Burnout and team functioning in pediatric pain care: A cross-sectional survey of multidisciplinary providers · 2026 · DOI

  • While extensively studied in high-income countries, little is known from Latin America.

    Training through trauma: A multivariate analysis of burnout and associated factors among physician trainees in Guatemala. · 2026 · DOI

  • Three time-efficient practices are proposed as tentative instantiations; their efficacy and limits remain to be tested.

    From “Lived Body” to “Instrumental Body”: an embodied phenomenological study of physician burnout and its resolution · 2026 · DOI

  • Weitere Studien sollten die kausalen Zusammenhänge zwischen Arbeitsbelastung, subjektiver Wahrnehmung und Copingstrategien untersuchen, - Die Entwicklung von Interventionen zur Prävention von Burnout und Förderung von Resilienz sollte im Fokus…

    Von ASS bis Zopiclon – der Beipackzettel für die orthopädische Karriere · 2026 · DOI

  • Investigating the long-term effects of disclosure on MHPs' mental health and well-being, - Examining the impact of workplace accommodations on MHPs' disclosure decisions, - Studying the role of supervisor training in promoting a supportive work environment for MHPs…

    Mental Healthcare Professionals’ Own Mental Health Disclosure to their Supervisor: Investigating Barriers and Facilitators, Experiences, and Needs · 2026 · DOI

  • A limited number of participants, - The emotional distress of reliving leaving the teaching profession, - The utilization of a virtual platform to conduct…

    Examining Teacher Attrition through the Experiences of Former Teachers before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic · 2024 · DOI

  • Investigating the impact of increased demand on university services, - Examining the effects of local cuts to health services resources on student mental…

    Stretched at Both Ends: Pressure on Student Services and the Impact on Academic Staff at UK Universities · 2024 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) Another challenge is the lack of understanding of the barriers and facilitators of disclosure among mental healthcare professionals (“Mental Healthcare Professionals’ Own Mental Health Disclosure to their…”, 2026); (2) Future research should explore the long-term impacts of systemic factors and post-COVID-19 dynamics (“Beyond the Frontlines: Burnout Among Emergency Healthcare Providers in Jordan”, 2026); (3) Despite growing attention, little is known about how burnout and engagement evolve within the different phases of medical education or which factors shape these outcomes within each phase (“Burnout and Engagement Within Medical Education: A Repeated Measures Study on…”, 2026); (4) The relationship between introversion and imposter phenomenon remains poorly understood, particularly among marginalized demographic groups who may already be more susceptible to imposter feelings (“Quiet Doubts: Exploring the Relationship between Introversion, Demographic…”, 2026); (5) Explicit wellness competencies were associated with more evaluation and reporting practices; whether they improve program effectiveness remains unclear (“Widespread Programs, Limited Evidence: How U.S. MD-Granting Medical Schools…”, 2026). 900 gap statements have been mined from Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 5,644 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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