Faculty Assessment of Emergency Medicine Resident Grit: A Multicenter Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessment of trainees' competency is challenging; the predictive power of traditional evaluations is debatable especially in regard to noncognitive traits. New assessments need to be sought to better understand affective areas like personality. Grit, defined as "perseverance and passion for long-term goals," can assess aspects of personality. Grit predicts educational attainment and burnout rates in other populations and is accurate with an informant report version. Self-assessments, while useful, have inherent limitations. Faculty's ability to accurately assess trainees' grit could prove helpful in identifying learner needs and avenues for further development.

Objective

This study sought to determine the correlation between EM resident self-assessed and faculty-

SUBMITTER: Olson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6339547 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature