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.

Working off-hours maxes odds of burnout in private-practice radiology

Meanwhile, about 27% of those surveyed said they feel professionally fulfilled, with exercise and healthy eating having an influence. 

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Radiologists’ happiness outside of work has plummeted since the pandemic

Burnout may be one factor, as physicians put in extra hours to deliver care delayed during the pandemic, according to new survey data.  

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Radiology is matching its first class of Gen Z residents this year. What to know

Physician members of this generation will come with unique nuances of which the imaging workforce should be aware. 

Commercially available AI tool could reduce radiologist workloads by 10% or more

The tool’s sensitivity was recorded as 99.1% for abnormal radiographs and 99.8% for critical radiographs—better than two board-certified radiologists who also interpreted the exams. 

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Adopting new model of quality management improves nursing safety in radiology

The “Plan-Do-Check-Act” approach also helped decrease wait times and adverse events, according to a study published in the Journal of Radiology Nursing

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Female interventional radiologist numbers low, but appear to be rising

There are many reported factors contributing to this gender gap, including fears of radiation exposure and difficulties with work-life balance, experts wrote in Academic Radiology

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Bills to expand nonphysicians’ scope of practice ‘rampant’ across US, American College of Radiology says

ACR labeled one recently opposed bill in South Dakota as "harmful" and "dangerous," with similar measures in the works elsewhere. 

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Radiologists contend that state abortion bans will intensify struggle to fill physician jobs

"Recruiters have their hands full,” Sarah Thomas, MD, with the Department of Radiology at Duke University Medical School, and colleagues wrote recently.