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.

Moral distress is ‘pervasive’ in radiology, with 4 primary causes
Common drivers include performing an unsafe number of studies, lack of administrative support and pressure to conduct unnecessary imaging.
Female radiologists scoring promotions at higher rate than male colleagues
Imaging experts speculated that the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors may be helping to improve gender disparities across the profession.
Nurses developing mysterious brain tumors
While the tumors are all benign, five nurses working on the same maternity ward have now fallen ill, spurring an investigation into a possible cause.
Supreme Court lifts Ninth Circuit order that reinstated federal workers
Among the agencies impacted is the Department of Veterans Affairs, which released thousands of probationary workers as part of a staffing purge conducted by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Most radiology residents support unionizing the profession, survey finds
Trainees have shown growing interest in unionization, with the Committee of Interns and Residents reporting 32,000 members as of last May, a doubling of membership since 2019.

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US Radiology Specialists expanding its pipeline for attracting and retaining technologists

Private equity-backed USRS plans to extend the reach of its Technologist Advancement Academy across all 180 of its imaging centers.

State abortion restrictions do not appear to impact radiology residency applications

Radiologists have expressed concern that the Supreme Court’s controversial decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would exacerbate physician shortages.

‘It was killing some of these radiology departments’: State grapples with long licensing delays

Some rad techs have waited upward of four months to receive their credentials, with it taking days prior to COVID.

Inflation continues to outpace physician compensation increases

The new data summary report, Benchmarking for the Future of Your Physician and APP Workforce, contains insight from nearly 190,000 providers across over 6,800 organizations.

Burnout propelling radiologic technologists to seek temporary ‘travel’ assignments

About 70% of those surveyed said workplace fatigue influenced their decision “a great deal” or “a lot," AMN Healthcare reported.

American College of Radiology voices ‘enthusiastic support’ for bill to expand physician workforce

ACR joined 80 member organizations of the Graduate Medical Education Advocacy Coalition in urging Congress to pass a long sought-after proposal.

Average radiologist pay has leapt nearly 38% since 2015

Members of the specialty have seen their compensation climb from $351K to $483K, according to the latest data from Medscape.

Adopting paid family and medical leave in radiology: 7 considerations

“Paid FML is increasingly being recognized as an important issue in medicine," radiologists wrote recently in AJR.

Staffing

Moral distress is ‘pervasive’ in radiology, with 4 primary causes

Female radiologists scoring promotions at higher rate than male colleagues

Nurses developing mysterious brain tumors

Supreme Court lifts Ninth Circuit order that reinstated federal workers

Most radiology residents support unionizing the profession, survey finds