Sensing Change: On Adding a Psychological Touch of Grit to Conventional Medical School Selection Criteria [Response to Letter]

Nasser AN Alzerwi Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Ministry of Education, Al-Majmaah City, Riyadh Region, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Nasser AN AlzerwiDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Ministry of Education, P. O. Box 66, Al-Majmaah City, Riyadh Region 11952, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaTel +966506704571Fax +966164042022Email n.alzerwi@mu.edu.sa I thank Rizvi and Zehra for their valuable critique of my article "Effects of Grit onthe Academic Performance of Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study atMajmaah University".1 The fact that a student's GPA is calculated at the end ofeach academic year makes the beginning of the following academic year an excellenttime to conduct the study, to ensure that the last reported GPA corresponds to theacademic efforts for the previous academic year. Additionally, this study makes noclaim regarding the predictive power of the grit score; rather, it examines the association between grit score and academic performance parameters, as explainedin the limitations paragraph in the Discussion section of the article. This is in response to the Letter to the Editor View the original paper byAlzerwi