title: [Academic achievement, engagement and burnout among first year medical students].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Stress may affect the sense of wellbeing and academic achievement of university students.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess the relationship of academic engagement and burnout with academic achievement among first year medical students.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student and Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS) were applied to 277 first year medical students of four universities. Their results were correlated with the grades obtained in the different courses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Moderately high engagement and low burnout levels were detected. There was a high level of satisfaction with studies and a moderate exhaustion level. Academic achievement was associated with the degree of engagement with studies but not with burnout. Conglomerate analysis detected a group of students with high levels of wellbeing, characterized by high levels of academic engagement and low burnout. Other group had moderate levels of engagement and lack of personal fulfilment. Other group, identified as extenuated, had high levels of personal exhaustion and depersonalization. Finally the disassociated group had a low academic engagement, low emotional exhaustion, high levels of depersonalization and lack of personal fulfillment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Academic achievement is associated with the level of engagement with studies but not with burnout.
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gómez H
authors.forename: Cristhian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pérez V
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Parra P
authors.forename: Liliana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ortiz M
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Matus B
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McColl C
authors.forename: Graciela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torres A
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meyer K
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002677:Chile / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult