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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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‘Healthcare administration, leadership and management’ to be recognized as new subspecialty in radiology

The designation will cover clinical medicine alongside different principles in health system science, the American Board of Medical Specialties announced. 

April 27, 2023
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Ultrasound-maker Butterfly Network hires former telemedicine exec as new CEO at $875,000 base salary

Joseph M. DeVivo also is eligible for an annual bonus at 125% of that amount, along with a monthly housing allowance of nearly $17,000

April 25, 2023
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Female radiologists earn about 81% of what their male counterparts collect

Women also worked an average of 8% fewer days per year, which does not fully account for the gender pay gap, experts wrote recently.

April 24, 2023
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42 imaging journal editors hand in resignation over 'extreme' fees

In the same statement announcing their resignation, the editorial board also detailed plans to start a new nonprofit, open access journal.

April 21, 2023
Twenty-three percent of cardiologists have a net worth of more than $5 million, No. 5 among all specialties, according to a new report. A majority of cardiologists also said they have had no significant financial losses in the last year. What are cardiologists paid? How much do cardiologists make?

Radiology among the most male-dominated specialties, but pay gap may be narrowing

Male specialists earned an average of 27% more than their female colleagues, according to Medscape's new physician compensation survey.

April 17, 2023
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‘Dangerous’ scope-of-practice bills fail, while ACR joins Puerto Rican radiologists in another fight

Radiology societies said they were "deeply concerned" a proposed legislation would eliminate physician-led teams. 

April 17, 2023
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29 radiology societies met to discuss the specialty’s most pressing problems: 8 takeaways

“Of these, the mismatch between the clinical workload and the available radiologist workforce was foremost," experts wrote in JACR. 

April 13, 2023

Bill would boost the number of residency slots in radiology and other specialties

The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act would add another 14,000 Medicare-supported medical residency positions over a seven-year period.
 

April 11, 2023
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