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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Emergency radiologists face systematic disadvantages in current promotion system

When matched by gender and career length, nonemergency rads are nearly twice as likely to be promoted to associate professor. 

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Academia still lagging behind private practice in allowing radiologists to read remotely

Recently trained radiologists are likely to weigh this factor when considering which direction to take their careers, researchers wrote in JACR

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‘High levels’ of unfamiliarity with the Family and Medical Leave Act among US radiology practices

Group practice leaders making hiring decisions may benefit from learning more about the FMLA and adopting such policies, experts advised. 

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Radiologist is the highest paying job in these 4 states

Those include the nation’s most populace state, which employs 1,700 members of the specialty earning $339,140 annually. 

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American College of Radiology, AMA partner to fight nonphysician scope creep

ACR recently highlighted the collaboration, labeling scope of practice as “one of the leading issues that are addressed by state legislatures.” 

‘Learning analytics’ provides more comprehensive means to assess novice radiologists’ skills

Traditional approaches don’t allow for the collection of structured data to gauge progress, experts wrote in Academic Radiology

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As the largest nurses strike in Texas history looms, Ascension threatens to lock out participants

Nurses at three Ascension hospitals in Austin, Texas, and Wichita, Kansas, were initially prepared to participate in a one-day strike in protest of contract disputes.

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Eyeing overutilization, health system schools fledgling internists in Imaging Wisely

Following the intervention, learners demonstrated improved and sustained knowledge about high-value image ordering, experts wrote in JACR