The student Burnout Syndrome is a response to chronic and severe stress linked to the role of the students and their academic context. This study aims at determining the prevalence and severity of the student Burnout Syndrome on a sample of midwifery students and its associated factors. The study is observational, cross-sectional, and analytical, with a sample of 140 students of a Chilean university. The study variables were as follows: sociodemographic background, academic profile, student Burnout Syndrome scale, and behaviors in everyday psychosocial activities. The instrument for measuring the Burnout Syndrome was the Unidimensional Scale of Student Burnout. For the analysis, descriptive statistics were used, and the association of the independent over the dependent variables was assessed through linear regression. Of the third-year students, 77.2% had a moderate or deep burnout level, which increases to 91.8% in the fourth-year students. A significant and direct association was found between the syndrome and the career year. A significant association was also found between the Burnout Scale and the scale of psychosocial risk behavior. All the students present some degree of Burnout Syndrome, which is related to both their studies and psychosocial risks.

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Introduction: Human Anatomy is a basic subject that poses a great academic challenge for students who are admitted to health sciences undergraduate degree programs. Objective: To know the socio-academic profile of first-year students of several health sciences undergraduate degree programs and to assess the association between, on the one hand, academic performance during secondary education, study habits and performance in the university admission test of sciences, and, on the other, academic performance in the human anatomy subject. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional correlational study conducted in 2018. The study population consisted of 306 first-year students enrolled in 7 health sciences undergraduate programs offered by the Faculty of Medical Sciences of a public university in Santiago de Chile, Chile. The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to determine the correlation between the variables of interest. Also, a multiple linear regression analysis was performed to establish the factors significantly associated with the final grade obtained in the subject. A level of significance of p<0.05 was considered. Results: Participants’ average age was 19.8 years, 98.6% were single and 65.3% were women. A significant association was observed between the final grade of the subject and the score obtained in the university admission test (p=0.000) and the average grade point average in high school (p=0.001); however, this association was not significant with the variables considered as study habits. Conclusion: Academic performance in the human anatomy subject was associated with the students' prior knowledge, but not with their study habits. Thus, educational interventions in this university should focus more on leveling students' knowledge, rather than on optimizing their study habits.