VIEIRA, Lara Campello; ASENSIO-MARTINEZ, Angela    VASCONCELLOS, Esdras Guerreiro. Coping, resilience, and the meaning of illness in medical residency. Bol. - Acad. Paul. Psicol. []. 2025, 45, 109, pp.150-160.   02--2026. ISSN 1415-711X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2176-3038.20250015.

Burnout Syndrome is understood as a response to failed or insufficient coping strategies in the face of chronic occupational stress, being especially prevalent among healthcare professionals. In this context, medical residents stand out as a particularly vulnerable group, since, although enrolled in high-quality training programs, they face significant physical and emotional strain. Therefore, coping strategies work as resources used to manage internal or external demands; their failure, however, may lead to Burnout. Resilience, in turn, represents an intuitive-intelligent process of dealing with adversity, acting as a protective factor. Based on that, the study aimed to assess whether resilience is present among residents at low risk for Burnout, analyzing their perceptions of the coping strategies employed by them and their views on the illness during residency, particularly its potential normalization. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten residents selected based on their responses to the Burnout Syndrome Assessment Inventory (ISB). Resilient capacity was not clearly evident within this group and, although participants acknowledged the high frequency of illness, the participants did not consider it as a natural aspect of the training process.

: Burnout; coping; psychological resilience; resident doctors..

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