Reflecting on experiences of resident redeployment during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Implications for leadership and theory beyond the crisis

These results provide insight into how future crises might be best approached, but also how wellness and resilience might be supported in non-crisis situations. This analysis also suggests a potential unfreezing of long-standing interspecialty tensions. The endurance of these shifting dynamics is worth exploring, particularly in light of policy imperatives towards more flexible and responsive systems. Theoretically, this analysis invites considerations of professional identity formation to better account for broader sociopolitical dynamics and the local dynamics of workplaces.