[Burnout syndrome in women in surgery]

During the past years the burnout syndrome has internationally gained importance especially within the medical professions. With the help of a questionnaire it was investigated at German clinics in how far the Burnout Syndrome occurs among female surgical interns, leading to the result that 68 percent of the poll participants have shown burnout. Reasons that lead to this burnout were among other things doing more than nine hours of overtime per week, the feeling of psychic and physical burdenings during operations as well as disappointed anticipation and unsuitable strategies to assimilate burdenings.