出版社：Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
摘要：Background: Grit, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, is associated with high levels of success in multiple domains but has only been minimally studied in the medical fields. Aims: This study examined whether higher levels of grit are associated with measures of anesthesiology resident performance – standardized test scores and faculty evaluations. Methods: 23 graduated anesthesiology residents volunteered to participate in the study. Participants completed the Grit Survey via an online interface. The program director provided performance data to a neutral data manager, who de-identified the data prior to analysis. Results: Correlation estimates between standardized test scores and grit ranged between -0.12 and 0.31 (not statistically significant at the one percent level of significance; p values ranging from 0.16 to 0.85). Correlation estimates between PGY-4 faculty evaluations and grit scores ranged from 0.43 to 0.49, but were not statistically significant. There may be a trend towards significance, as p-values ranged from 0.021 to 0.044. Conclusion: This pilot study showed a trend toward higher grit being associated with higher overall faculty evaluation of resident performance in their final year of training. This finding was non-significant and thus should be considered preliminary. There was no significant association between grit and performance on standardized tests.
