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.

What are the “Sharpies” that people on healthcare’s front lines confront that represent choices their leaders have made, reflecting a focus on something other than what’s best for the patient/the clinician, and/or indicating we’d rather put a Band-Aid on a serious wound than to try and work on improving the condition(s) causing the wound in the first place?