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.

Former SCCT president Eric Williamson, MD, FSCCT, vice chair for radiology informatics and AI at Mayo Clinic, presented the session one staffing challenges and provided insights into recruitment and retention strategies for physicians and technologists in the field. #SCCT #SCCT23 #SCCT2023 #cardiovascularbusiness

How to address staffing shortages in cardiac CT

Eric Williamson, MD, a former SCCT president, examined recruitment and retention strategies for physicians and technologists in the field of cardiac CT. 

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Fewer than 1 in 6 radiologists are highly likely to seek new employment in the near future

Most practices surveyed said they hired radiologists in 2021 with similar plans in 2022, focused on breast and body imaging as top needs. 

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Physician burnout in the US is rising, presenting ‘potential threat’ to healthcare system, study asserts

That's according to three surveys of a multispecialty group of physicians (including radiologists), conducted during a five-year period.

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The 6 factors that most commonly fuel breast radiologists’ desire to leave a job

"The survey created here can be administered by radiology practices to predict when breast radiologists are vulnerable to quitting,” researchers detailed in JACR

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What stakeholders are saying about the largest healthcare strike in history

Many healthcare watchers were taken by surprise when upwards of 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers went on strike last week.

Radiology impacted by tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente health workers on strike

The picket includes nearly 75,000 individuals, among them, ultrasound sonographers, radiologic technologists, home health aides and licensed vocational nurses. 

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Employing a full-time reading room coordinator boosts radiologist efficiency, reduces turnaround times

Few level 1 trauma centers employ such a position, typically tasked with fielding phone calls from referrers, triaging requests to residents and relaying critical results. 

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56% of new physicians say they’ve received 100-plus job solicitations during training

“Physicians coming out of training are being recruited like blue chip athletes,” said AMN Healthcare's Leah Grant.