Perspective Viewpoints
- •The physician role must evolve to meet the needs of the 21st century healthcare system.
- •The physician role should embrace system citizenship, the idea that physicians diagnose and treat the system as they do individual patients.
- •In order for physicians to embrace system citizenship, healthcare systems need to be willing to support physicians in that work.
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Accepted:
March 1,
2023
Received:
January 23,
2023
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Funding Sources: This project was performed with financial support from the American Medical Association (AMA) as part of the Accelerating Change in Medical Education and the Reimagining Residency initiatives, and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
Conflict of Interest(s): None to disclose.
Other disclosures: J.D. Gonzalo is co-editor of a textbook on Health Systems Science (Elsevier, 2016, 2020), and Health Systems Science Review (Elsevier, 2019).
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