Staffing

This channel provides news on management of staff and proper staffing levels for safe, high-quality healthcare system. Physician and clinician workforce shortages have become growing challenge for hospitals, with burnout also now affecting nearly all medical workers. Topics include medical staffing issues, statistics, compensation how to improve clinician morale and the workplace environment, and ways to combat clinician burnout.

Radiology Business management Association (RBMA) Co-executive directors Linda Wilgus, FRBMA, and Jessica Struve, CAE, share some of the highlights at the 2025 meeting.

Highlights from the 1st day of RBMA's annual meeting

Radiology Business Management Association Co-executive Directors Linda Wilgus and Jessica Struve share some of the highlights from the first day of the organization's annual meeting. 
 

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AI accurately routes interventional radiology procedure requests at pennies apiece

Duke University scientists are testing LLMs' ability to aid in this task—with the models able to recognize requests and generate responses. 

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DOJ asks Supreme Court to lift injunctions, approve DOGE firings

The U.S. Department of Justice is appealing a lower court’s ruling that would see 16,000 federal employees return to work, including many from Veterans Affairs. 

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Match Day 2025: Radiology programs offer more positions while applicant pool shrinks

Both diagnostic and interventional radiology continue to see steady growth in the number of new positions offered to trainees each year, coupled with a high rate of filled roles. 

Senator Jacky Rosen Minnesota

Members of Congress propose radiology-supported bill to ease burden of medical school debt

Lawmakers in the House and Senate have reintroduced the Resident Education Deferred Interest (REDI) Act, endorsed by ASTRO and SIR.  

Video of Laxmi Mehta, MD, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, explaining the causes of cardiologist burnout and possible solutions. She spoke on this topic at AHA 2024.

How to address cardiologist burnout

Laxmi Mehta, MD, detailed several ways she and her colleagues at The Ohio State University are working to combat the rising levels of burnout among cardiologists.

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HHS, VA rehiring 5,000 workers after court halts DOGE purge

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s mass firings have been temporarily halted by an injunction, resulting in 18 federal agencies being ordered to rehire over 24,000 workers. 

Linda Moy, MD, NYU

Linda Moy, MD, resigns as editor of RSNA’s flagship journal, plus more leadership news

In other news, the University of Nebraska Medical Center has named Ryan Lee, MD, MBA, as its next chair of radiology, while ASRT has elected new board members.