Background:Anesthesiology may be stressful and most anesthesiologists develop mechanisms for coping. However, inexperienced trainee anesthesiologists seem to be vulnerable. We studied stress perception and job burnout in trainee anesthesiologists.Methods:Responses to perceived stress scale (PSS) and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were evaluated in 159 trainee anesthesiologists.Results:In our results, when perceived stress was increased, emotional exhaustion and depersonalization increased but personal accomplishment decreased, as expected. Perceived stress was very high in the early years of training. There was a negative correlation between age and emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, but positive correlation with personal accomplishment. Female anesthesiologists had higher personal accomplishment, but lower depersonalization points than male anesthesiologists in our study. There was no statistical association between marital status, PSS, and MBI; ≥2 children group had a significant high personal accomplishment but low depersonalization and emotional exhaustion scores. Line regression analysis showed a statistically significant relationship between PSS and emotional exhaustion and between age and depersonalization.Conclusions:Social factors such as gender and number of children affect the work life of our trainees.

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Keywords: functional near infrared spectroscopy, basic life support, medical training, virtual reality, medical simulator Frontiers in Neuroscience | www.frontiersin.org December 2019 | Volume 13 | Article 1336Conflict of Interest: fNIR Devices, LLC manufacturers the optical brain imaging instrument and licensed IP and know-how from Drexel University. KI and BO were involved in the technology development and thus offered a minor share in the startup firm, fNIR Devices, LLC.The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.