Objective:

To estimate the prevalence of burnout among family medicine residents in Colombia during the first nine months of 2020 in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Material and methods:

cross-sectional, descriptive, exploratory study carried out in family medicine residents belonging to academic programs of Colombian universities, who filled out the research instrument by means of a snowball survey that included sociodemographic data and the application of the MBI-HSS.

Results:

the prevalence of burnout is 6.8 % among the participants, being more frequent in male residents with a weekly dedication of more than 66 hours, belonging to the first semester.

Conclusions:

it is necessary to identify burnout syndrome periodically in resident physicians in order to adopt structured preventive measures within a risk management system to reduce the complications derived from the presence of this condition.

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