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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Radiology among top 3 specialties with highest intent to leave current job

Findings are from a survey of 18,000 physicians across 43 states and working at over 100 healthcare organizations, who participated in the AMA Organizational Biopsy.

After nearly shutting down its entire interventional department, radiologists throw hospital a lifeline

Despite all of its IR providers submitting their resignations in June, a hospital in Australia appears to have avoided the complete shutdown of the department (for now). 

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Medscape drops radiology to 3rd highest paid specialty after scrubbing salary survey data

In April, the news website had declared radiology the No. 2 highest paid specialty, but it's now revising the numbers to correct inaccuracies in the statistical model. 

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Many radiology program directors see resident unions as 'problematic'

Though trainees may have legitimate reasons to organize, imaging leaders believe the move could pose harm for both programs and residents themselves. 

VA halts mass layoffs, still shedding 30,000 jobs by 2026

Veterans Affairs said plans to reduce its workforce by 85,000 have been called off. It has instead undertaken other efforts to improve efficiency. As for the 30,000 jobs it expects to lose by the end of 2025, those will come from early retirements.

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Radiologists increasingly affiliating with multiple practices, a trend most pronounced among young rads

Early adoption of multiple practice affiliations signals this trend "will become the norm rather than an exception," experts write in the Journal of the American College of Radiology

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Radiologist says moral distress has made her contemplate suicide

Indiana University radiologist Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD, shared the story of an anonymous colleague's moral distress, hoping to humanize this issue. 

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Provider pay increased by 4.9% across specialties in 2024, survey finds

A survey from the American Medical Group Association found that physicians and advanced care providers are making more money when compared to hours worked. However, the complications of inflation and the rising cost of care could eat into gains.