TY - JOUR AU - McManus, I. C. AU - Jonvik, Hallgeir AU - Richards, Peter AU - Paice, Elisabeth PY - 2011 DA - 2011/08/30 TI - Vocation and avocation: leisure activities correlate with professional engagement, but not burnout, in a cross-sectional survey of UK doctors JO - BMC Medicine SP - 100 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - Sir William Osler suggested in 1899 that avocations (leisure activities) in doctors are related to an increased sense of vocation (professional engagement) and a decreased level of burnout. This study evaluated those claims in a large group of doctors practicing in the UK while taking into account a wide range of background variables. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-9-100 DO - 10.1186/1741-7015-9-100 ID - McManus2011 ER -