We do not Know Enough About Burnout AmongMedical Residents in Turkey: A Rapid Review of theLiterature

Abstract

Studies worldwide have shown that 27–75% of medical residents experience burnout syndrome. There are 26,181 residentsin Turkey, and the number has been increasing. In this study, we aimed to review how much Turkish medical residents arerepresented in the existing literature on burnout syndrome and uncover a possible knowledge gap. In this rapid review, thePubMed database was used to identify studies on burnout syndrome among Turkish medical residents up to June 2020. Asearch query was designed with a combination of related keywords and narrowed by city, country, and nationality. Fifteenstudies were included in the review. These studies were published between 2006 and 2019. Most of them investigated res idents from a single specialty (n=7), single center (n=7), or single city (n=10). Nine studies focused only on residents. Theminimum, maximum, and median numbers of residents were 11, 270, and 74, respectively. The findings of this reviewindicate the literature gap on burnout syndrome in medical residents in Turkey. Few studies have addressed this problem,and their findings are insufficient to represent the status of the residents. The authors encourage the scientific community toconduct various studies with rigorous methodologies.