Prevalence of burnout among emergency medicine residents in India

Burnout is a multidimensional, psychological syndrome resulting from long – term stress during one’s career [Lin, 2019]. Burnout amongst healthcare professionals is characterized by various degrees of depersonalization, emotional exhaustion and sense of low personal accomplishment ( Maslach, 1996). Emergency physicians (EPs) experience the highest levels of burnout among all physicians (Lu, 2015). Medscape national physician burnout, depression and suicide report 2019 estimates prevalence of burnout amongst emergency physicians to be 48% (https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-lifestyle-burnout-depression-601...). Although the detrimental consequences of burnout on clinician well-being and patient care are widely documented, burnout continues to be endemic in the health system [Chunming et al., 2015]. Symptoms of burnout are prevalent from the outset of medical training, with multi-institutional studies indicating that at least 50% of medical students may meet burnout criteria at some point during their studies [Chunming et al., 2015].