Organisational Grit Trumps Individual Grit Response to: Grit in healthcare education and practice

• Main Author: Muhammad Raihan Jumat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National University of Singapore 2020-05-01
• Series: The Asia Pacific Scholar
• Subjects: response; organisational grit; trumps; individual grit
• Online Access: http://theasiapacificscholar.org/organisational-grit-trumps-individual-grit-response-to-grit-in-healthcare-education-and-practice/

I read with great interest Samarasekera and Gwee’s article in TAPS (January, 2020) entitled: “Grit in healthcare education practice”. The authors cited Duckworth’s 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’ 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.