Response to the Letter to the Editor Regarding Our Feature “Burnout and Associated Factors Among Medical Students in a Public University in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study” [Response to Letter]

• Main Authors: Kajjimu J, Kaggwa MM, Bongomin F
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dove Medical Press 2021-03-01
• Series: Advances in Medical Education and Practice
• Online Access: https://www.dovepress.com/letter-response-to-burnout-and-associated-factors-among-medical-studen-peer-reviewed-article-AMEP
• ISSN: 1179-7258

Jonathan Kajjimu,1 Mark Mohan Kaggwa,2 Felix Bongomin3 1Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda; 2Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda; 3Department of Medical, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, UgandaCorrespondence: Jonathan KajjimuFaculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, UgandaTel [phone]Email [e-mail] We wish to welcome the insightful comments by Lam, Parkes, and Wang regarding our study on the burden of burnout among medical students in a public university in Uganda.1 We especially appreciate this contribution and we believe that reaching a consensus will help in promoting future medical students’ well-being together with that of their patients. In performing this study, we wanted to start a conversation around the occurrence of burnout in Ugandan medical students aiming to build on this as our base-line dataset to inform future medical student centered interventional studies. The readers raised several important comments.   View the original paper by Kajjimu and colleagues   This is in response to the Letter to the Editor