The prevalence of burnout and active interventions of graduate students of clinical medicine during residency training

Abstract

The research data at home and abroad show that the overall burnout rate of clinical professional graduate students was high. They are vulnerable to burnout because of long duty hours, learning pressure, intense and overloading work and especially the significantly reduced personal accomplishment in the situation of the contradiction between doctors and patients in our country. Burnout not only results in psychological distress and physical symptoms, but also has negative effect on the quality of graduate medical education during residency training. Therefore, educators need to develop an active awareness of burnout and ought to perform interventions such as formulating the appropriate learning goals, improving the work efficiency, reducing work hours, positive psychological counseling and stress management training to prevent such occurrences. Key words: Burnout; Graduate students of clinical medicine; Resident training