A member of the specialty is offering peers two potential strategies to help improve and support well-being in their radiology practice.
Ian A. Weissman, DO, detailed his thoughts Thursday in the ACR’s “Voice of Radiology Blog.” He noted that the specialty is experiencing increasing rates of burnout, pushing radiologists to reduce their hours or resign altogether.
As former president of the Wisconsin Radiological Society, and amid the Great Resignation, Weissman in 2022 helped create a national well-being project to mitigate burnout in imaging. He offered two potential strategies to improve well-being in your organization:
1. Develop a culture of community, connection and support: “Find out what works best for your practice. Some radiology colleagues have transitioned to peer learning over peer review, which is supported by ACR, and is one way to build a positive culture,” wrote Weissman, who is chair of the American College of Radiology’s Patient- and Family-Centered Care Outreach Committee.”
2. Seek out servant leaders: “If you work for a servant leader, who will work to professionally support you, you are much less likely to burnout in your career. It falls upon us to select servant leaders to lead us, and to train new servant leaders to support their colleagues.”
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Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic.