In addition, approximately 10 holidays annually is standard in the US. CT and MRI grew the most. Concerns about How to Manage Growing Workload. New technologies, such as 2- and 3-D viewing and PACS, are probably the main methods by which radiologists are doing so much more work without much longer hours.
The use of external off-hours teleradiology companies has drawn much attention recently. They are now used by about half of US radiology practices to obtain preliminary interpretations of night and weekend imaging. Many radiologists are concerned this development will lead to radiology becoming a commodity and radiologists losing their status as professionals.
Most recently, the percentage of practices using these companies apparently has ceased growing, and many practices are starting an internal equivalent arrangement. They do this either by hiring radiologists to routinely work nights and weekends, or by having each member of the practice work nights for a week or a month, rather than one night at a time. Quality Improvement. Quality is a major issue, especially because, outside of hospitals, non-radiologists are free to purchase or lease imaging equipment and to perform imaging and interpretation with no oversight.
In , the American College of Radiology ACR developed a voluntary accreditation programme in mammography because of revelations of poor quality. Now, similar mammography accreditation is mandated by national law, and ACR is the main accrediting body. More recently, the ACR developed voluntary accreditation programmes in essentially all other imaging modalities.
Recent national legislation requires non-hospital facilities that perform CT, MRI, PET, or nuclear medicine to become accredited in those modalities by The ACR was a major force in getting this quality-increasing legislation passed, and is expected to become a major accrediting organisation.
Cost and Appropriateness Issues. The US spends far more per capita on healthcare than any other country, and imaging costs are growing particularly rapidly.
Thus, there is constant pressure to cut the costs of imaging. The ACR is the radiology organisation principally involved in resisting these such cuts. The boomers are living longer than previous generations, and need care over a longer duration. They want to continue their activities and they have a longer life expectancy. While there may be an oversaturation in the radiology market in the U.
The U. Radiology Job Market According to the ACR survey, 1, radiologists were hired in , with 1, jobs projected for , and 1, jobs projected for The number of jobs available roughly equals the number of residents completing their diagnostic radiology training. Where Are The Jobs? Bluth said that the previous three surveys showed the South as having the most jobs, followed by the Midwest, but they switched positions this year. Search firms are less popular options for finding a radiology job these days.
A study of the ACR job boards published in early noted an imbalance between the number of new job seekers on the site more , and the number of jobs available fewer. The study, which covered most of —, showed a mean number of new job seekers per month, versus an average of 84 new jobs listed per month. When Diagnostic Imaging searched the job boards in early December, , there were about jobs listed. We examined how the demographic, professional, and practice characteristics of radiologists vary among major groups within the profession.
Materials and methods: A stratified random sample of radiologists and nuclear medicine specialists was drawn from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile, which is the most complete and extensive single source of information on physicians in the United States. Because the total numbers of female radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, and radiologists less than 35 years old are relatively small, these groups were deliberately "oversampled" hence the term stratified random sample to ensure sufficient numbers of responses in these categories for meaningful analysis.
Responses were weighted to make the data representative of all radiologists, despite differences in sampling rates. A breakdown by age indicated that the age group of radiologists less than 45 years old included more women, diagnostic subspecialists, and persons who had fellowship training than other age groups did.
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