Over the past years, the research on mental health phenomenon has become one of the priority goals in science around the world. The rationale for it are the WHO prognoses that, by 2020, the psychic disorders will be among the top five human diseases [1; 2]. Also called emotional or professional exhaustion, the burnout syndrome is one of the factors that directly affect our mental and even somatic health. In the view of the researchers H. J. Freeudenberger and G. Richelson, J. Edelwich and A. Brodsky, B. A. Potter, K. Matheny, C. Maslach, the burnout syndrome is a body reaction to the working environment, conditions and requirements. It specifically affects the professions involving interaction with other people and is related to the personal deformation phenomena that arise as a result of the internal accumulation of negative emotions and of the impossibility to externalize or release them. The phenomenon of emotional exhaustion is analysed from various perspectives. From the clinical perspective, the burnout syndrome means failure, depletion and using up of energy or of resources, what causes the total decrease in the individual‟s potential. From the social-psychological perspective, the emotional exhaustion manifests itself as a state of psychic fatigue, deception and it occurs in people practising so-called auxiliary professions. From the organisational perspective, the burnout syndrome is considered as a process in which a previously engaged professional gives up his work in response to stress or tension. The social-historical perspective highlights the impact of the society on burnout syndrome development, reducing the role of the individual as such in the development of this disorder. The components of the emotional exhaustion syndrome are presented in a distinct analytical framework. Thus, C. Maslach identifies three components of the burnout syndrome, namely: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, diminution of the personal achievements [3]. Among the reference research on the burnout syndrome conducted in the Republic of Moldova, it is worth mentioning the theoretical-empirical study of the emotional exhaustion syndrome in the academic environment that determined the degree of teacher burnout and identified the gender differences in the manifestation of emotional exhaustion, depending on the type of temperament, stress level, length of service, age and work satisfaction. [4]. In the medical sphere, Potâng A. and Coşciuc I. (2008) investigated certain aspects of the relationship between the professional burnout and the quality of life of the medical staff [4]. At present, the research on the burnout syndrome among academics, highlighting the determinants that cause and sustain this syndrome, remains a current objective of university quality management. A preliminary analysis of the activity of the teaching staff in “N. Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy pointed out the following risk factors for the burnout syndrome: 1. Increased stress, neuroticism and depression at work. 2. Increase of the workload and of the responsibilities resulting from the modernisation and adjustment of medical education to the European standards. 3. Diversification and multiplication of the requirements towards the teaching staff of the medical sphere, involving different competences: professional, pedagogical, technical, cross-cutting, teaching in international languages, etc. 4. The lack or the shortage of strategies to overcome the negative psychological states caused by overload what results in the increased discontent and demotivation of the medical staff. 5. Permanent changes in the curricular management without the active participation of teachers in this process, etc. In addition to these factors, the medical teaching staff may be strained by situations of possible conflicts or misunderstanding with the patients, the patients' relatives, students, chair administration and administration of the medical institution, colleagues, etc. Therefore, we would like to point out the importance of the research on burnout syndrome among the medical academics and of developing appropriate strategies to prevent and mitigate this phenomenon, given that this is a prerogative of the whole society, not only of the academic community.