Burnout in Residency: Training-Related Burnout and Associated Factors in Postgraduate Residents of Peshawar, Pakistan

Abstract

The research investigates burnout incidence through factors causing resident professional exhaustion that affects postgraduate medical residents in Peshawar, Pakistan, at three different hospitals. The research uses resident-based burnout questionnaire surveys that assess resident characteristics and work responsibilities combined with support programs and individual stress strategies. Three hospitals followed, but Khyber Teaching Hospital reported 71.4%, while Lady Reading Hospital recorded 70.0% of the three institutions. Burnout develops when doctors encounter stressful work responsibilities, insufficient supervisory resources, and operational barriers between their professional courses and personal existence. The study verifies peer support functions as an essential stress management mechanism, but healthcare residents lack practical tools to maintain stress control. This paper advocates for specific interventions that should begin with enhanced mentoring structures, work-life balance measures, and wellness program programs to combat resident burnout. Every intervention strategy and program progress must be evaluated through standardized burnout assessments. According to research, medical training arrangements need immediate modifications because this change directly affects patient care quality and the healthcare environment's health status.

Keywords: Burnout, residency training, postgraduate residents, Peshawar, Pakistan