The burnout syndrome (BS) is a group of symptoms and signs produced by chronic stress in those professionals devoted to prolonged and intense care to their dependants. The BS is concentrated in three aspects: emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and personal accomplishment (PA). The main objective is to determine the level of burnout and relate it to social-demographic variables and also estimate physiological variations related to BS degree. Design: ex post facto retrospective. Information related to social demographics, working status and BS test was obtained trough a random sampling through written questions gathering. Pearson correlation and T test were used for the statistical analysis of a sample of n=51 (31 males, 20 female); age: 51±8.22 yrs.; 64% of them with more than 20 years of experience in teaching work. Most of the subjects were regular full time university professors. As a group, they exhibit a moderate degree of burnout or emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment, especially the females. There is no statistical correlation between social demographic variables and BS degree (EE, DP, PA). The most affected group is the so called special professor (n=12) with 23.8?13.4 as a mean EE value that classified them as moderate EE. In personal accomplishment, all of the subjects were under the minimal expected figure to be considered efficient, insofar as it can be ascertained, none of the differences were of statistical significance (p =0.05). The functional variations thus far observed were in blood pressure, stomach upsetting and headache in both sexes with an EE moderate accordingly.