Recently residents' burnout has received significant attention regarding its ever-increasing negative nature and far-reaching consequences on the health system, patients, and physicians Residency is a highly demanding training program, which puts overwhelming responsibilities forth. Meanwhile, residents are expected to simultaneously develop their knowledge and provide qualified medical services to patients. During this high demanding program, residents are subjected to a wide variety of pressures, including high workloads, long working hours, night-shifts and life-work imbalance, and repeated paperwork and exams. Therefore, they may mainly be at risk of experiencing burnout syndrome.

Burnout is a harmful psychological syndrome occurring in response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors of professional life demands leading to emotional depletion and detachment According to the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), burnout has officially been classified as an occupational phenomenon, under the chapter "factors influencing health status or contact with health services"(WHO, 2019). Burnout may lead to increased medical errors, detrimental effects on physicians' health, decreased productivity, job dissatisfaction, and depression. Moreover, burnout may attenuate motivation in education complement and job involvement during residency years.characterized job burnout defining three specific dimensions: 1) emotional exhaustion, referring to chronic stress and fatigue caused by job demands, 2) depersonalization as a result of negative attitudes towards patients and colleagues, which is expressed by cynicism and impersonal feelings and 3) reduced professional efficacy, conceptualized as feelings of incompetency and ineffectiveness in work domains.

With kind regards

Sophia

Managing Editor

Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education