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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Billionaire Mike Bloomberg puts up $250M to open healthcare high schools for training radiologic technologists

The first institutions are slated to open this year via health system partnerships in Boston, Charlotte, Dallas and Houston. 

January 17, 2024
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Many radiology residents facing double-whammy of heavy debt burden, poor financial literacy

About 60% of those surveyed said they had more than $100,000 in liabilities after graduating from medical school, researchers detailed in Clinical Imaging

January 16, 2024
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How radiologists’ use of vacation days can impact burnout

Across 3,000 U.S. physicians surveyed, 60% took three weeks of vacation or fewer per year and 70% worked while away, both factors leading to burnout.

January 12, 2024
Radiologists need to stop using ther term "Clinically Correlate" and be more specific in reports. This term has become a joke among clinicians who see it as clinically meaningless.

Could enticing retired radiologists back into practice help solve the workforce crisis?

Employing a "silver squad" of former physicians to decompress work lists should be a "strong consideration" for any practice, one expert argued. 

January 9, 2024
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Bill Shields retires after more than 25 years leading ACR’s legal department

He first joined the college as general counsel in 1998, previously working with the U.S. Department of Defense.

January 9, 2024
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Improving recruitment and retention in radiology

Geraldine McGinty, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, explains how practices can retain radiologists during the Great Resignation in healthcare.

January 5, 2024

Mayo Clinic uses automation to share Patient Praises with radiology staff

The noted academic institution trimmed about 3 minutes from the manual feedback-sharing process while also bolstering feelings of appreciation among its imaging team. 

January 3, 2024
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Renowned radiologist retires after more than 60 years in the specialty

Melvyn Schreiber, MD, was one of the first radiology residents at the University of Texas Medical Branch and later became chair of the department.

January 3, 2024

Around the web

"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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