Job burnout syndrome in physicians

Job burnout syndrome is a form of professional stress which occurs most frequently in human occupations. Three key aspects of job burnout that occur in response to chronic stress are: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal achievement. The studies that have been conducted both in the highly industrialized and middle­income and developing countries have shown a high prevalence of occupational stress and job burnout syndrome in almost all branches of medicine. The direct consequences of job related stress on physicians physical and mental health indirectly lead to a decrease in the level of health services with all its consequences on the patients care. There is a need to detect stress factors and find the ways to prevent or at least mitigate them. The development of modalities in terms of training how to recognize and overcome the stressful factors of professional burnout and determining organizational reforms in health care system in order to reduce the presence of contributing factors for burnout are the priorities for the each country's society.