Burnout is caused by high stress jobs and could induce somatic, psychological disorders and negative attitude to professional actives so this process is caused poor relationship with patient. Burnout should be considered in medical students by counseling centers of University for prevention of consequences. This study investigates burnout in senior medical students of Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan,Iran(2008).

This research is a cross sectional study. In this study all of senior medical students (N=56) were answered to demographic questionnaire and Maslach burnout Inventory.

The findings showed that the majority of medical students (91.1%) had burnout and 16% of them had severe burnout. There was not significant relationship between burnout and sex, age, marital status P< 0.05.

Burnout was common problem in medical students and need to be helped. Therefore Medical Student should be encouraged to seek help and adequate facilities should be available.