Ethical issues in unprofessional behavior of residents who dispute dismissal: ten year analysis of case law in hospital-based specialties

Table 1 Competencies judged insufficient in dismissed residents (n = 61) from: ethical issues in unprofessional behavior of residents who dispute dismissal: ten year analysis of case law in hospital-based specialties

	N	Male	Insufficiencies in CanMEDS competencies
Deficiency in the competencies of…			Communication	Collaboration	Management	Medical Expertise	Mean number of insufficient competencies
Professionalism	39	44.0% (17)	82.1% (32)	35.9% (14)	61.5% (24)	84.6% (33)	4,2
Other competencies, but not professionalism	22	31.8% (7)	45.5% (10)	13.6% (3)	45.5% (10)	90.9% (20)	2,4
Total	61	39.3% (24)	67.2% (42)	27.9% (17)	55.7% (34)	86.9% (53)	3,5

Legend: cross table to show the number of residents (n) insufficient on professionalism, or not insufficient on professionalism (vertical), and the overlap of insufficiencies on other competencies (horizontal). Of the 39 residents with insufficiencies in professionalism 82.1% (32 residents) were judged insufficient on communication as well. Of the 22 residents without insufficiencies in professionalism 31.8% (7 residents) were male. N = 61 cases with 60 different individual residents (one of them appealed, got another chance to remediate, was dismissed again and appealed again)

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