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AİM: A fact-finding study of burnout syndrome among assistant doctors who are specializing in internal and surgical ancl non-surgical clinics and evalııation of the causative factors involved. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and a questionnaire comprising 38 different sociodemographic characteristics were presented to a total of 165 residents working o ur hospital, 85 of whom were in nonsurgical branches and 80 in surgical branches; and their ansvvers were statistically evaluated. Emotional exhaustion, desensitization and the feeling personal accomplishment were evaluated in three levels as low, medium and high. FINDINGS: Despite the fact that emotional exhaustion and desensitization levels were found to be high among the assistant doctors in non-surgical branches, 75.3 % and 63.5 % respectively, feeling of personal accomplishment vvas lovv and stood only at 11.8 %. In the surgical branches, emotional exhaustion and desensitization levels vvere again high, 50 % and 65 %, respectively, as opposed to a lovv level of feeling of personal accomplishment which stood only at 8.8 %. İt vvas found that the level of emotional exhaustion experienced by those in the non-surgical branches vvas significantly higher in comparison to that experienced in the surgical branches (p<0,05). There was no signifıcant difference between the two groups from the viewpoint of desensitization and the feeling of personal accomplishment (p>0,05). CONCLUSION: It vvas found that the ratio of emotional exhaustion and desensitization was high among the assistant doctors in both the surgical and non-surgical branches. However, the feeling of personal accomplishment had not shown a proportionate lessening at the moment. These fındings emphasize the need to take appropriate steps both by the clinics and the hospital administration to reduce and provide support against burnout syndrome, not only in the branches where thls study was carried out but also probably in all the branches.

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