Burn Out Among Medical Students - A Study Across Three Medical Colleges in Eastern India.
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2013-09
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Burnout is described as a syndrome of
emotional exhaustion, and reduced personal
accomplishment that may develop when there is significant
stress without adequate support and resources in the face
of work overload, as commonly happens with physicians
and undergraduate medical students. Materials and Methods
: This work attempted to study the level of burn out among
all the third and fifth semester medical students in three
different medical colleges. 596 students from three medical
colleges participated in the study wherein they were given
standard questionnaires for assessment of stress, support,
satisfaction and control parameters. Results : Overall 310
students of the 596 (52.01%) interviewed had scores
correlating with burn out. All the colleges across semesters
showed burnout in the various parameters individually like
stress, lack of support, dissatisfaction, lack of control and
perception of success. Conclusions : Individual as well as
organizational interventions need to be targeted to prevent
burnout among medical students.
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burn out, medical students, stress
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Bera Tapas, Biswas Nirendra Mohan, Mandal Ananya, Ghosh Arijit, Bhattacharya Swati, Bera Swati. Burn Out Among Medical Students - A Study Across Three Medical Colleges in Eastern India. Indian Medical Gazette. 2013 Sep ; 147 (9): 356-359.