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Introduction: Healthcare professionals are the most being affected group because of being executive of patient care process. In this process they have been exposed to high risk infection and their workload has increased that cause burn-out related with profession. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on burnout of doctors, nurses and midwifes. Method: A total of 228 healthcare professionals (38 doctors, 161 nurses, 29 midwives) were included in this descriptive study. The data of study was collected with questionnaire form which was included Socio-demographic Characteristics and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Statistical analysis of the data was performed using the IBM-SPSS Statistics 26 package program. Results: The mean age of the participants is 34.36±7.13 and 64.5% are married and 53.5% have children. The average period of professional experience is 11.62±8.16 years, and the average monthly working hours are 250.41±69.9 hours before the pandemic and 199.34±34.44 hours after the pandemic. MBI mean total score is 40.00±10.96, emotional exhaustion sub-dimension mean score is 21.55±6.94, depersonalization sub-dimension mean score is 6.89±3.34, and personal accomplishment sub-dimension mean score is 11.55±3.77. A statistically significant difference was found between the total MBI score and the variables of gender, liking the profession, being satisfied with the fixed unit (p<0.05). In addition, a statistically significant difference was found between the emotional exhaustion sub-dimension and the variables of gender, choosing the profession voluntarily, and loving the profession, between the depersonalization sub-dimension and the variables of satisfaction with the professional year and the unit, and between the personal achievement sub-dimension and the variable of liking the profession (p<0.05). Conclusion: According to this study, it was found that doctors, nurses and midwives experienced burnout related to COVID-19. It has also been found that working hours in COVID-19 units increase the level of burnout.