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Background: Medical students’ mental and emotional health is adversely affected during medical school due to the demanding nature of medical education that promotes burnout. Burnout may persist beyond medical school and can be a predictor of psychological impairments and problematic patient care that which increases the risk of medically incorrect decisions contributing to suboptimal patient care.

Methods: Cross-sectional study using a self-administered 3-part questionnaire composed of socio-demographic data, stressors to burnout and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI); conducted last December 2018 to March 2019 at Cebu Institute of Medicine. Descriptive statistics were taken for all variables. T-test analysis was used for dichotomous independent variables while Analysis of Variance was utilized for independent samples with multiple variables. Multiple regression analysis was done to determine significant relationship between identified stressors and the determinant score on the CBI.

Results: Burnout was present among the study participants with CBI score of 71.53 classified as high degree of burnout with about 94.88% of the study population that showed at least moderate burnout.Only Year Level (p=0.027) was significantly associated with burnout. Stressors associated to burnout were: Lack of belief in what you do (p=0.000), Insufficient rewards (p=0.007), Poor communication (p=0.002), Poor leadership (p=0.009), Sense of never ending competition (p=0.009) and Scoring lower than hoped (p=0.003).

Conclusion: Students are at greater risk for burnout as they temporally progress through medical school peaking at 3^rdyear of medical school. Stressors encompass personal-, studies-, colleague- and teacher – related factors. It is therefore important to identify and address these stressors due to its progressive negative effect both on self and others.