Global prevalence of burnout among postgraduate medical trainees: a systematic review and meta-regression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Burnout among postgraduate medical trainees (PMTs) is increasingly being recognized as a crisis in the medical profession. We aimed to establish the prevalence of burnout among PMTs, identify risk and protective factors, and assess whether burnout varied by country of training, year of study and specialty of practice.

Methods

We systematically searched MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Web of Science and Education Resources Information Center from their inception to Aug. 21, 2018, for studies of burnout among PMTs. The primary objective was to identify the global prevalence of burnout among PMTs. Our secondary objective was to evaluate the association between burnout and country of training, year of study, specialty of trainin

SUBMITTER: Naji L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8034324 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature