Faculty Assessment of Emergency Medicine Resident Grit: A Multicenter Study

Olson, Nathan; Olson, Adriana Segura; Williamson, Kelly; Hartman, Nicholas; Branzetti, Jeremy; Lank, Patrick M.

doi:10.1002/aet2.10309

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“…These women have the characteristics of highly gritty and resilient people. The GRIT-S scores (4.13 ± 0.42) were higher than observed in the original study by Duckworth and Quinn (2009) on two samples of high school students 3.4 ± 0.8 (n = 279), as well as the 2005 National Spelling Bee final contestants 3.4 ± 0.8 (n =175) and four samples (total sample size n = 281) of emergency room residents (3.56 ± 0.55 to 3.63 ± 0.65) (Olson et al, 2019).…”

Section: Grit Hardiness and Resiliencycontrasting

confidence: 63%

Psychological and Sociological Profile of Women Who Have Completed Elite Military Combat Training

Tharion

Friedl

Lavoie

et al. 2022

Armed Forces & Society

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More than 75 women have successfully graduated from the U.S. Army Ranger Course since the integration of women into elite military combat training. This study sought to identify the psychological characteristics and sociological variables that contributed to their motivation and success. A guided interview and demographic and psychological questionnaires were used to assess characteristics of 13 women who successfully completed elite military combat training. Collectively, these women were college graduates and had well educated fathers, possessed high levels of grit and resiliency, and described themselves as self-competitive challenge seekers. These women all had a strong male influence in their lives. The characteristics of these pioneer women may be unique from subsequent cohorts as female participation in elite military combat training becomes the norm and as attitudes and experiences change for graduates of female combat training over time.

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Section: Grit Hardiness and Resiliencycontrasting

confidence: 63%

Psychological and Sociological Profile of Women Who Have Completed Elite Military Combat Training

Tharion

Friedl

Lavoie

et al. 2022

Armed Forces & Society

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“…First, the self-reported data employed to examine personal traits, such as grit, may have introduced social desirability or self-serving biases ( 59 ). However, the use of reports by faculty members would also be problematic; supervisors may be unfamiliar with trainees and thus overestimate their grit level due to a lack of interaction and insufficient observation time ( 60 ). Thus, to reduce self-reporting bias, we avoided the explicit mention of grit in the questionnaire headings to prevent the respondents’ answers from being influenced.…”

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confidence: 99%

Effects of grit on medical students’ wellbeing during clerkships: a longitudinal observational cohort study

Lin,

Chen

et al. 2024

Front. Med.

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IntroductionIn medical education, the clerkship phase is a demanding period during which medical students learn to navigate the responsibilities of medical school and clinical medicine. Grit, a personal quality regarded as a non-cognitive trait, refers to perseverance and passion; specifically, it represents the ability to endure hardship and work industriously toward a goal. Most studies analysed grit as a single concept and few studies have investigated the effect of grit on the well-being of medical students through the whole-specialty training (i.e. surgical and non-surgical specialty rotations) required in clinical clerkships. Therefore, this study investigated whether associations exist between medical students’ grit, measured by the two subconstructs of perseverance and passion, and their well-being during clerkships in surgical and non-surgical specialty units.MethodsThis one-year prospective web-based questionnaire study enrolled fifth-year medical students at a tertiary medical centre in central Taiwan between September 2017 and July 2018 in their first-year clerkship. The students’ sex, age, and grit were measured at the start of their clerkship. Routine surveys were conducted over one year to assess burnout and compassion satisfaction for students’ well-being, and the training specialty characteristics of the surgical and non-surgical specialty departments were recorded. This study included 92 medical students and 1,055 survey responses from individual specialty rotations. Descriptive, univariate and multivariate analyses were performed.ResultsOur results revealed that medical students’ perseverance, as part of grit, was related to lower burnout and higher compassion satisfaction during clerkships, but not the subconstruct of passion. Moreover, the positive trait of perseverance measured in our study had greater explanatory power for compassion satisfaction than for burnout. Furthermore, the results revealed that older medical students suffered from less burnout than their younger counterparts, and that male medical students expressed higher compassion satisfaction than their female counterparts.DiscussionPerseverance, as a subconstruct of grit, is a positive personal quality for medical students’ clerkships, and methods driving the cultivation of perseverance in medical education should be considered. In addition, even though positive traits such as perseverance equipped medical students for compassion satisfaction, additional factors attributed to medical students’ burnout must be identified.

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“…This is interesting because we suspected that individuals with little grit might have had a different trajectory than those with lot of grit. The concept of grit has become very popular in the lay press and may be a useful concept in cognitive performance, but it is still an area of active investigation . Some research has shown that grit in emergency physicians is predictive of burnout .…”

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confidence: 99%

Salivary Cortisol Concentrations, Grit, and the Effect of Time

Wong

Peters

Joseph

et al. 2019

AEM Education and Training

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Background: Stress is a common experience in the emergency department (ED) and is a balance of personal capabilities versus demands. Residency training is meant to improve individuals' capabilities and therefore may attenuate an individual's stress response. Grit is a personality trait that may attenuate stress in individuals. In this study we explore the relationship between time of year, postshift salivary cortisol concentrations, and the influence of grit among attendings and residents in an academic ED.Methods: Thirty-nine residents and 17 attendings were enrolled and followed for two academic years at an urban academic medical center. Postwork salivary cortisol samples were collected quarterly, and Duckworth 12point Grit Scales were administered annually. Data from the relative quarters of the first and second years were combined, and the results were analyzed using descriptive statistics and generalized estimating equations. Results:We analyzed 216 cortisol samples and 87 grit scores over 2 academic years. Between the first and fourth quarters of the academic year, the percentage of subjects with a detectable postshift cortisol sample decreased from 47.6% (30 of 62) to 18.4% (9 of 49). In the fourth academic quarter compared to the first, the odds that an individual had a detectable cortisol were significantly lower overall (odds ratio [OR] = 0.25, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.10 to 0.59, p = 0.01), including the subset of only trainees (OR = 0.26, 95% CI = 0.07 to 0.88, p = 0.01), and adjusting for grit did not meaningfully change the ORs. Conclusion:Over the course of the academic year, the odds that an individual's postshift salivary cortisol concentration will be above detectable concentration significantly decrease over time, and this relationship is not confounded by grit.From the

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Faculty Assessment of Emergency Medicine Resident Grit: A Multicenter Study

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

Psychological and Sociological Profile of Women Who Have Completed Elite Military Combat Training

Psychological and Sociological Profile of Women Who Have Completed Elite Military Combat Training

Effects of grit on medical students’ wellbeing during clerkships: a longitudinal observational cohort study

Salivary Cortisol Concentrations, Grit, and the Effect of Time

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