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Burnout is a common problem among physicians and physicians-in-training. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is the gold standard for burnout assessment, but the length of this well-validated 22-item instrument can limit its feasibility for survey research.

To evaluate the concurrent validity of two questions relative to the full MBI for measuring the association of burnout with published outcomes.

The single questions “I feel burned out from my work” and “I have become more callous toward people since I took this job,” representing the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization domains of burnout, respectively, were evaluated in published studies of medical students, internal medicine residents, and practicing surgeons. We compared …