The survey will help us learn more about different practice models for anesthesia training delivery in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on non-physician anaesthesia providers. We are inviting participants who provide or have personal knowledge of anesthesia or surgery care in LMICs, and we have contacted you through word of mouth or national societies.
Burnout and related concepts such as resilience, wellness, and taking care of healthcare professionals have rightly become a very hot topic. This issue has come further into the foreground during the current COVID-19 pandemic, where issues such as occupational hazards, financial instability, lack of personal protective equipment, inadequate resources to manage patients, and process inefficiencies all threaten the well-being of frontline healthcare providers. 1 The number of published papers on burnout for doctors and nurses has dramatically increased over the last decade (Figure 1) and you would now have to read more than 4 papers a day to keep up with the literature. However, when looking at that body of literature, you could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that burnout is a "first world problem." Rotenstein and colleagues 2 published a landmark systematic review including any literature before 2018 that included any cross-sectional or longitudinal studies reporting the prevalence of burnout in physicians. From the 182 studies, including over 100 000
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