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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Burnout’s pronounced prevalence among radiologists underlines ‘urgent, unmet need’ for intervention

Increased workload, poor sleep quality, suboptimal working conditions and reduced job satisfaction all correlate with increased levels of professional fatigue. 

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General public perceives nurses as the most ethical, honest professionals in the US workforce

Americans trust nurses and doctors less than they did a few years ago, but both professions still make the top five among 23 wide and varied work roles.

Melissa Chen, MD, Clinical Neuroradiologist, Associate Professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, said challenges ton radiology include the limitations of the relative value units (RVUs) used to pay radiologists, the need for balancing workloads despite disincentives to reading some studies, and the need to find new workflow efficiencies with AI to offset the radiologist shortage. #RSNA

Radiology at tipping point with limitations of RVUs and the growing shortage of radiologists

Melissa Chen, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, outlines some of the challenges practices are facing and possible solutions.

Radiology residents and fellows unionize in ‘landslide’ election

Physicians at Chicago-based McGaw Medical Center are working over 80 hours per week while collecting inadequate compensation, organizers said.

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Only 21% of healthcare leaders say they’ve implemented AI in medical imaging

However, about 62% of decision-makers at the management and executive level said they plan to do so within the next five years. 

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Philanthropic foundation to spend $250M training tomorrow’s healthcare workers across 10 cities

A new model of healthcare workforce training emphasizes recruitment and training of teenagers starting in 10th grade.

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg puts up $250M to open healthcare high schools for training radiologic technologists

The first institutions are slated to open this year via health system partnerships in Boston, Charlotte, Dallas and Houston. 

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Many radiology residents facing double-whammy of heavy debt burden, poor financial literacy

About 60% of those surveyed said they had more than $100,000 in liabilities after graduating from medical school, researchers detailed in Clinical Imaging