Objective　To explore the status of job burnout of medical staffs in minority border areas. Methods　A total of 906 medical personnel from Pu'er hospitals in Yunnan Province were as-sessed with Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey (MBI-GS) by t test

descriptive statistics

chi-square test

ANOVA and LSD-t pairwise comparison. Results　①The emotional exhaustion

cynicism and reduced personal accomplishment of medical staffs in minority border areas (1.55±1.40

0.99±1.29

2.47±1.98) are significantly lower than general areas (P=0.000

0.010

0.000); ②emotional ex-haustion

cynicism and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) total points of different levels of hospital medi-cal staff

the score of which in descending order are: municipal

county and township (town) levels (P=0.000

0.000

0.000); ③Female medical personnel's emotional exhaustion and cynicism are scored significantly higher than males medical staff (P=0.000

0.025); ④The scores of emotional exhaustion

cynicism

reduced personal accomplishment and MBI total points of Bachelor medical staff are signifi-cantly higher than those of colleges as well as secondary schools and below (P=0.000

0.000

0.000

0.012); ⑤The scores of reduced personal achievement of Lahu medical staff are higher than those of other ethnic groups (P=0.009). Conclusion　In medical staffs in minority border areas there exists a certain extent of job burnout

which presents differences among genders

educational background

hos-pitals and ethnic groups.