ESTRO 2025 - Abstract Book

S2191

Interdisciplinary – Education in radiation oncology

ESTRO 2025

streamlined training in this field, ensuring that curriculum objectives are properly met and patient care and referral practice is improved within the region.

Keywords: Dermatology, skin, radiotherapy

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Digital Poster Burnout levels among radiation oncology residents in Spain: a cross-sectional survey Elías Gomis-Sellés 1 , María Mingarro de León 2 , Ángel Montero 3 , Meritxell Arenas 4

1 Radiation Oncology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain. 2 Radiation Oncology, Hospital Provincial de Castellón, Castellón, Spain. 3 Radiation Oncology, HM Hospitales, Madrid, Spain. 4 Radiation Oncology, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Reus, Spain

Purpose/Objective: To analyze the burn-out levels among Radiation Oncology (RO) residents in Spain.

Material/Methods: An anonymous online survey was distributed among Spanish RO residents between June and September 2024 using Google Forms. Burnout levels were evaluated using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) scale. Results: Fifty medical internal residents (MIR) in RO responded to the survey (approximately, 18% of total RO residents). Most of the participants were in the fourth (last) year of residence (R4, 42%), followed by the third year (R3, 38%). During the residence period, most of the respondents worked overnight in the Emergency & Casualty (94%), Internal Medicine (70%), and Medical Oncology (54%). Moreover, 72% of them prolonged their daily journey by evenings in Radiation Oncology departments. Typically, they have done 4-5 monthly overnight duties (60% of respondents), and 4-6 evenings in RO departments (50%). 84% of respondents had a day-off after an overnight shift. Most of them considered that the workload during overnight duties was “high” or “very high” (82%), in contrast to evening hours in the RO department (33.3%). According to the results of burn-out levels, the MBI scale analyzes three different spheres: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and self-fulfillment. High marks in the first two categories and low marks in the last category were considered as full-burnout syndrome. Regarding emotional exhaustion (Fig. 1A): 58% of respondents had high levels, followed by 16% with medium levels, and 24% with low levels. According to depersonalization (Fig. 1B): 54%, 36%, and 10% of residents presented high levels, medium and low, respectively. Regarding self-fulfillment (Fig. 1C): 42% had high levels, 26% had medium levels, and 32% had low levels. 70% presented at least 1 symptom of burn out (Fig. 1D), and 12% presented a full-burnout syndrome. Figure 1.