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Burnout among plastic surgery residents

National survey in Saudi Arabia

Turki Aldrees, Basil Hassouneh, Abdulaziz Alabdulkarim, Loujin Asad, Saleh Alqaryan, Emad Aljohani and Khalid Alqahtani
Saudi Medical Journal August 2017, 38 (8) 832-836; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.8.18346
Turki Aldrees
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldress), the Department of Facial Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery (Alabdulkarim), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Asad), the Department of General Surgery (Aljohani), King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqaryan), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Hassouneh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MBBS (Hons), MBA (Hons)
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Basil Hassouneh
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldress), the Department of Facial Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery (Alabdulkarim), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Asad), the Department of General Surgery (Aljohani), King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqaryan), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Hassouneh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Abdulaziz Alabdulkarim
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldress), the Department of Facial Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery (Alabdulkarim), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Asad), the Department of General Surgery (Aljohani), King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqaryan), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Hassouneh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Loujin Asad
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldress), the Department of Facial Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery (Alabdulkarim), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Asad), the Department of General Surgery (Aljohani), King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqaryan), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Hassouneh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Saleh Alqaryan
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldress), the Department of Facial Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery (Alabdulkarim), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Asad), the Department of General Surgery (Aljohani), King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqaryan), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Hassouneh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Emad Aljohani
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldress), the Department of Facial Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery (Alabdulkarim), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Asad), the Department of General Surgery (Aljohani), King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqaryan), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Hassouneh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Khalid Alqahtani
From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldress), the Department of Facial Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery (Alabdulkarim), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Asad), the Department of General Surgery (Aljohani), King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqaryan), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Hassouneh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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vol. 38 no. 8 832-836
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.8.18346
PubMed 
28762436

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received March 31, 2017
  • Accepted May 23, 2017
  • Published online August 1, 2017.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Turki Aldrees, MBBS (Hons), MBA (Hons)⇑,
  2. Basil Hassouneh, MD,
  3. Abdulaziz Alabdulkarim, MBBS,
  4. Loujin Asad, MBBS,
  5. Saleh Alqaryan, MBBS,
  6. Emad Aljohani, MBBS and
  7. Khalid Alqahtani, MSc, FRCSc
  1. From the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldress), the Department of Facial Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery (Alabdulkarim), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Asad), the Department of General Surgery (Aljohani), King Abdulaziz Medical City, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Alqaryan), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Hassouneh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Turki Aldress, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: pt.turki{at}hotmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5284-3956
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