Burnout among doctors in residency training in a tertiary hospital

Medical Residents’ Attitude toward Professionalism and Assessment of Their Professional Behaviors: A Cross-Sectional Survey

“…Residents in different fields encounter different kinds of ethical dilemmas and may experience different needs for ethics preparation. 17 This study has some limitation. First, it contained a selfreport of residents that may not accurately reflect their actual attitudes and behaviors.…”

Stress and Burnout During the First Year of Residence Training in a University Teaching Hospital: Preliminary Date

“…Respondents report the prevalence of an item within the last month on a 5-point scale, ranging from 0 (never) to 4 (very often). Scoring is completed by reverse scoring of four positively worded items [4,5,7,8] and summing all item scores. The scale scores range from 0-40.…”

“…Residents are expected to gain skills in their specialty while simultaneously providing top-quality patient care. The stress residents experience is accentuated by complex interaction of difficulties in balancing time spent in personal and family pursuits [3,4].…”

“…They are also more likely to screen positive for depression [9]. Moreover, burnout has been linked to selfreported suboptimal patient care, deferred clinical decision making, and increased perceived medical errors [4,10,11]. Most studies in this field have focused on identifying type of stressors among residents and burnout prevalence in a specific medical specialty sample [12][13][14][15].…”

Critical Care Rotation Impact on Pediatric Resident Mental Health and Burnout

“…Resident physicians are at high risk of burnout, with current literature demonstrating prevalence of 50-75% in this population [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Burnout and depression are often coincident; depressive symptoms are present in 50-90% of residents meeting criteria for burnout [5,6,9,11,12].…”