Burnout syndrome in Spanish medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Burnout syndrome is a frequent syndrome related to people that feel a deterioration in their daily activities due to highly demandant psychological requirements in their workplaces. Within last decades, this syndrome has been studied across medical professionals, concluding that stress levels that physicians suffer is high enough to make them develop burnout syndrome. In the case of medical students, there are some recent studies, although with small samples. For this reason, given that this phenomenon may produce a huge impact in medical students' development, the aim of this study is to analyze the influential factors that may contribute to its occurrence.

Methods

The necessary information was gathered through a web-based questionnaire, divided in two parts. The

SUBMITTER: Gil-Calderon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8063293 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature