Radiology Business April 4, 2024
There are five potential process changes practices can make to help address radiology workforce shortages in the short-term, according to new research published Wednesday.
Much has been written about the specialty’s staffing challenges, propelled by burnout, rising imaging volumes, an aging workforce and other factors. Dana Smetherman, MD, MBA—the incoming new CEO of the American College of Radiology—and colleagues suggest several possible solutions in a new AJR [1] clinical perspective piece.
“Rather than working longer and/or faster, there are ways for radiologist to work smarter,” Smetherman, with the Department of Radiology at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, and co-authors wrote April 3. “In this article, we present multiple short-term strategies to increase the effective radiologist workforce and/or increase workforce...