PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS OF BURNOUT SYNDROME IN MEDICAL STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS.

Background: Burnout--emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, reduced personal accomplishment--among medical trainee are being widely acknowledged. The intense demands of the academic years along with long work out hours make students and residents prone to stress. It would be important to know the prevalence and predictors of burnout in order to adopt preventive measures and improve the quality of training and mental health. Objectives: To ascertain the prevalence of burnout in medical students and residents, and to identify demographic, academic, psychosocial and work aligning stressors that affect burnout risk profile using standardised validated tools for assessment.   Keywords: A Cross-sectional study.   Place and duration of study: Department of psychiatry Nowshera Medical College One Year from Jan 2024 to Jan 2025 Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 100 subjects (50 medical students, 50 residents) in years of. Burnout was measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Demographic, work-related and psychosocial aspects were recorded. Statistical calculations were done using SPSS v24. 0 with descriptive statistics, chi-square, t-tests, and logistic regression. Significance was set at p80 hours per week (p=0.002), sleeping <6 hours/night (p=0.01), and the perception of high stress (p<0.001). Residents were more likely to suffer from emotional exhaustion compared to students (p=0.04). Strong social support was attenuating (p=0.03). Logistic regression analysis revealed workload and stress as independent predictors of burnout.The current cross-sectional study aims to determine the prevalence of burnout syndrome in medical students and residents. Important risk factors were long hours at work, lack of sleep, and high stress; social support was protective. These results highlight the necessity of organized programs, such as duty-hour regulation, mental health service utilization, peer-support program involvement and stress management education. Institutional efforts should be directed at prevention to decrease burnout and protect trainee health as well as improve both the quality of medical education and patient care.