Abstract
Today’s global society is increasingly diverse and complex requiring resiliency to successfully navigate challenges in the workplace. Health care educators are charged with the task of developing curriculum that is highly engaging while also preparing students to address the challenges of providing safe and effective care to increasingly ill patients within complex integrated healthcare systems. Central to their success as learners and future practitioners will be the development of grit: The ability to be diligent, hardworking, and able to remain positive despite setbacks. Interprofessional education develops grit by tapping into intrinsic motivation and provides a new modality for the development of 21st century skills and competencies of teamwork, collaboration, communication, and ethical reasoning. The article will provide a discussion of IPE as a venue for promoting grit as well as developing intrinsic motivation in today’s 21st century healthcare students.
Highlights
Today’s healthcare environment is complex, fast-paced, and demanding requiring students and staff to have grit to successfully collaborate in an interprofessional team
This paper describes interprofessional education (IPE) as a means of promoting grit and resiliency to prepare healthcare students for long term professional success
Pivotal to addressing this curricula challenge is an understanding of the key features of grit and the behaviors that are intrinsic to a gritty individual
Summary
Today’s healthcare environment is complex, fast-paced, and demanding requiring students and staff to have grit to successfully collaborate in an interprofessional team. This paper describes interprofessional education (IPE) as a means of promoting grit and resiliency to prepare healthcare students for long term professional success. Interprofessional education (IPE) engages students in intrinsically motivating experiences that can promote grit through significant and challenging learning that develops required proficiency in teamwork, ethical decision making, understanding of roles, and interdisciplinary communication [3,4,5].
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