A questionnaire survey on standardized training residents’ job stress was carried out among 318 participants by random sampling from 4 training hospitals in Shanghai. Results showed that mean score of job stress among training residents was 71.1. The most important job stressors were specialty, workload and time budget. One-way analysis of variances showed that total points of job stress among residents were significantly differences among different types of work experience, highest degrees, training years, training hospitals, income satisfaction and recognition of the necessity of residence training program. Stepwise multiple linear regression analysis revealed that income satisfaction, recognition of the necessity of residence training program, training years and work experience were significant for predicting the standardized training residents’ job stress which explained 25.1% of the variance. Accordance to the result, effective countermeasure including improving security system of residents’ training program, optimizing the rotation schedule and paying attention to humanistic care were put forward.

Standard training residents; Job stress; Job stressor; Investigation; Shanghai