{"id":860,"date":"2020-04-27T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T07:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/taps\/?post_type=issues&#038;p=860"},"modified":"2020-09-01T08:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T00:19:23","slug":"organisational-grit-trumps-individual-grit-response-to-grit-in-healthcare-education-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"issues","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/taps\/issues\/organisational-grit-trumps-individual-grit-response-to-grit-in-healthcare-education-and-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisational Grit Trumps Individual Grit Response to: Grit in healthcare education and practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Published online: 5 May, TAPS 2020, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">5(2), 57-58<br \/>\r\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29060\/TAPS.2020-5-2\/LE2221\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29060\/TAPS.2020-5-2\/LE2221<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Muhammad Raihan Jumat<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Office of Education, Duke-NUS Medical School<\/span><\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I read with great interest Samarasekera and Gwee\u2019s article in TAPS (January, 2020) entitled: \u201cGrit in healthcare education practice\u201d. The authors cited Duckworth\u2019s seminal studies on grit and its strong correlation with success. The authors suggested that grit be used to select for medical students and for healthcare systems to adopt organisational grit. I applaud the authors\u2019 call for implementing organisational grit in healthcare. This is a step forward in working out the multiple issues plaguing healthcare. Interestingly, the call to implement organisational grit might not make it necessary to select for grit upon medical school admission.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Duckworth had posited that the mere assembly of gritty individuals might not necessarily create a gritty organisation <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">(Duckworth, 2016)<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">. Students who test as gritty upon admission might be gritty in a different context than that of a medical school. Medical school has its own specific set of challenges which are not shared in many other pre-medical school experience. Hence, students who type as gritty on a medical school entry exam might not remain gritty in medical school.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Grit needs to be developed as a team within an organisation with a shared goal <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">(Duckworth, 2016; Lee &amp; Duckworth, 2018)<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">. This development starts with assembling a group of individuals with similar interests. These individuals are then encouraged to work together with chances to carry out deliberate practice and constant reminders of their shared purpose. This group should be even encouraged to fail and learn from those failures. This group will then develop grit as a unit <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">(Duckworth, 2016)<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Creating an environment which is demanding yet nurturing is key in promoting grit <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">(Lee &amp; Duckworth, 2018)<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">. Team-based or problem-based learning provides a conducive setting for such an environment to thrive in medical school. Students are grouped in teams and are faced with demanding challenges which would force them to work together over an extended period of time. These students are allowed to fail and learn from their mistakes. Over time, the team develops grit. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The formation of a culture which promotes and breeds grit within an organisation would be a stronger force to withstand the demanding challenges of healthcare than just a selection of gritty individuals. Structural changes in healthcare to allow for organisational grit to take root should be undertaken. Increased reports of physician burnout necessitate that healthcare workers be given support. Organisational grit would give healthcare workers the support they require. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Note on Contributor<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Muhammad Raihan Jumat, PhD, is an Education Fellow in the Office of Educaiton at Duke-NUS Medical School. The author conceived the idea and wrote this letter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Acknowledgements<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The author would like to thank Professors Scott Compton and Sandy Cook for their advice and encouragement in writing this letter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Funding<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">No funding was involved in this letter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Declaration of Interest<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The author does not have any competing interests.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">References<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Duckworth, A. (2016). <i>Grit: The power of passion and perseverance<\/i> (First Scribner hardcover ed.). New York, NY: Scribner.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lee, T. H. &amp; Duckworth, A. L. (2018). Organizational grit. Retrieved from Harvard Business Review, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/09\/organizationalgrit\">https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/09\/organizationalgrit<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">*Muhammad Raihan Jumat<br \/>\r\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Office of Education,<br \/>\r\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Duke-NUS Medical School,<br \/>\r\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">8 College Road,<br \/>\r\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Singapore 169857<br \/>\r\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Tel: +6 56516 4771<br \/>\r\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">E-mail: raihan.jumat@duke-nus.edu.sg<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"template":"","issues_category":[19],"archive_category":[],"issue_type":[25],"volume_category":[43],"class_list":["post-860","issues","type-issues","status-publish","hentry","issues_category-letter-to-editor","issue_type-past-issue","volume_category-volume-5-number-2-may-2020"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Organisational Grit Trumps Individual Grit Response to: Grit in healthcare education and practice - The Asia Pacific Scholar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/taps\/issues\/organisational-grit-trumps-individual-grit-response-to-grit-in-healthcare-education-and-practice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Organisational Grit Trumps Individual Grit Response to: Grit in healthcare education and practice - The Asia Pacific Scholar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Published online: 5 May, TAPS 2020, 5(2), 57-58 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29060\/TAPS.2020-5-2\/LE2221 Muhammad Raihan Jumat Office of Education, Duke-NUS Medical School I read with great interest Samarasekera and Gwee\u2019s article in TAPS (January, 2020) entitled: \u201cGrit in healthcare education practice\u201d. 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