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.

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Moonlighting during vacation? 5 short-term process changes to address the radiology workforce shortage

“Rather than working longer and/or faster, there are ways for radiologists to work smarter," researchers wrote in the American Journal of Roentgenology

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Sexual harassment of new physicians remains a nasty, solution-resistant problem

First-year medical residents are getting sexually harassed at work less frequently now than several years ago. That said, incident rates are still alarmingly high.

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Judge declines to toss radiologist’s lawsuit alleging age discrimination led to her firing

Septuagenarian Claire Hanley, MD, first sued the country’s largest municipal health system in 2019 after she was replaced by someone 30 years younger.

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Radiology’s gender gap only widened with the COVID-19 pandemic

“Despite the demonstrated benefits of gender diversity in medicine, women in radiology in North America are still underrepresented," experts wrote in Clinical Imaging

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GE HealthCare touts FDA clearance of solution that allows technologists to scan remotely

The offering is from Ionic Health, which is based in São Paulo, Brazil, where the company has already tested the technology for three years. 

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A possible remedy for cardiology’s staffing shortages: heart failure internists

Internal medicine physicians spend a lot of time working with heart failure patients. A new commentary in JACC: Heart Failure explored the potential impact of providing IM trainees with special training so that they can deliver additional value.

Seetharam (Ram) Chadalavada, MD, MS, Vice Chair of Radiology – Informatics, University of Cincinnati, UC Health, Associate Professor of Radiology Surgery, and Director of Interventional Radiology Medical Student Education, explains considerations radiology trainees should think about when they negotiate an employment contract.

Key points of contract negotiations for radiology trainees

Rads should learn more about employment negotiations before signing a contract, says Seetharam Chadalavada, MD, vice chair of radiology informatics at the University of Cincinnati.

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Burnout remains high among radiology residents years after COVID-19 hit

The most commonly suggested remedies include lessening their work burden, providing more programmatic support and offering “protected wellness time.”