Completing my third and fourth year at Tulane during a pandemic in the combined public health and medicine program gave me the opportunity to witness crisis leadership first-hand, albeit from a medical student’s perspective. Feeling that intentional leadership training in medicine is lacking, and with guidance from some mentors, I sought to expand my expertise in this area. This led me to the Crisis Leadership Canvas for COVID-19.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Justice League. Superpowers abound – so cool, so fun, so unbelievable. Fantasy. Real people don’t have superpowers. Superpowers are beyond our grasp. Or are they?

Despite our tendency to view structures as immovable sources of burnout, they are important components of the ecosystem and therefore deserve attention.