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 rises to the No. 3 highest paid specialty, surpassing cardiology: Medscape

UPDATED: Full-time U.S. radiologists take home about $526,000, a figure that includes base salary, incentive bonuses and other income such as profit-sharing contributions. 

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Radiology M&A expert shares 6 trends to watch in 2025

Andrew Colbert, senior managing director of Ziegler, spoke at RBMA 2025, discussing teleradiology's "explosive" growth, among other developments. 

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Over 45% of radiologists and other docs are burned out, down from the 2021 peak

Despite the improvement, physicians remain at greater risk for such workplace fatigue when compared to other professions, the AMA reports. 

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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.    
 

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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. 

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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. 

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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.