Health care is changing faster than the workforce trained to sustain it. Artificial intelligence, demographic pressure and system-wide complexity are reshaping care, yet we still rely on 20th-century professional roles, curricula and regulations. The result is predictable: burnout, bottlenecks and a system unable to adapt.

Health care today behaves as a Complex Adaptive System—dynamic, nonlinear and interdependent. But our workforce model was built for a factory-like era of predictable inputs and outputs. Two forces now prevent us from evolving: rigid professional-school curricula and outdated regulatory and union frameworks.

Universities still train clinicians for systems that no longer exist. Curricula move slowly, accreditation standards even more slowly and regulators often insist on

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