Professional Identity Misformation and Burnout: A Call for Graduate Medical Education to Reject "Provider".

Abstract

Butdowngrading physicians to "provider", while seemingly minor, is cumulatively invalidating;it dishonors physicians' intensive training and weighty responsibility for others' welfare and ignores doctors' inherent role: docere, "to teach " Deborah R Erlich, MD, MMedEd Joseph W Gravel Jr, MD T he professionalism of faculty and resident physicians has been on full display during the COVID-19 pandemic Although no formal survey exists of physician perceptions of the label "provider", prior literature indicates many believe it devalues physicians' intensive training, exacerbates demoralization, or harms the physician-patient relationship [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Journal of Graduate Medical Education is the property of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )