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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop and conduct psychometric validation of a tool to assess self-views of a growth mindset and team communication skills among pharmacists. DESIGN The Mindset and Team Communication Tool was developed to assess self-views of growth mindset and team communication. The survey consisted of 2 parts: (1) 14 items on growth mindset and (2) 13 items on team communication; a 4-point Likert scale of agreement was used as an option to answer all items. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The survey was administered to first-year student pharmacists from 2017 to 2019. The participants completed a presurvey at the beginning of the semester and a postsurvey at the end of the semester (3-month follow-up period). OUTCOME MEASURES Psychometric validation was performed by assessing the following properties: face and content validity, internal consistency reliability, construct validity, test-retest reliability, responsiveness validity, and convergent validity. RESULTS A total of 174 participants completed both the pre- and postsurvey (response rate = 92.7%). Internal consistency reliability demonstrated a Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.827. Construct validity showed that all measures, except for 6 items, loaded highly onto 2 components. Test-retest reliability revealed a statistically significantly positive relationship between the pre- and postsurvey scores. Responsiveness validity demonstrated a statistically significantly improvement in the score when an intervention was provided. Convergent validity showed no correlation between the tool score and course grades. CONCLUSION The Mindset and Team Communication Tool demonstrated validity and reliability across a robust set of psychometric values and provides a foundation to describe pharmacists' self-views and explore associations of these views with behavior in teamwork-based environments.