Dutch dismissal practices: characteristics, consequences, and contrasts in residents' case law in community-based practice versus hospital-based specialties.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the Netherlands, 2 to 10% of the residents terminate training prematurely. Infrequently, termination of training is by dismissal. Incidentally, residents may disagree, dispute and challenge these decisions from the programme directors. Resident dismissal is always a difficult decision, most commonly made after, repeated assessments, and triangulation of the resulting assessment data and one or more remediation attempts. Nevertheless, the underlying reasons for dismissal and the policies for remediation and dismissal may differ between training programmes. Such differences may however impact the chance of remediation success, the chance of dismissal and subsequent residents' appeals.

Method

We included a total of 70 residents from two groups (community-based and

SUBMITTER: Godschalx-Dekker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10877891 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature