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Not Sure What You Want? Private Practice, Hospital Based, Or Academic Residency: Find A Radiology Program With All Three!

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Residents can now experience what it is like to work as a trainee in private practice, a practice with radiologists directly hired by a hospital, and an academic hospital, all under the roof of one residency program. Private Practice Experience Welcome to our world. And that decision can be challenging.

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Teleradiology to private practice and back: Why I returned to vRad.

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After residency, I was full of energy and had a solid plan: I’d work in private practice and take on a part-time job in teleradiology. With my goal accomplished I left vRad behind to focus on my private radiology practice. At the time, vRad was great but in my mind, it was a means to an end—paying off my student loans.

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The Challenge of Leaving Private Practice for Remote Radiology: 5 Considerations

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Leaving private practice is hard. As vRad’s Medical Director, I interview radiologists every day who are wrestling with that difficult decision. Even in the face of exhaustion and burnout, they run up against loyalty to their colleagues. Others worry about the impact of unwinding their current financial entanglements.

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Independent Radiology

Ben White

There are thousands of rad jobs available in the country and more work than the field can handle, but only a fraction of those positions are at independent radiologist-owned and controlled private practices. Not everyone needs or wants to work in private practice, and of course that’s fine. From the “Why?”

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Hiring challenges help influence hospital to hand radiology reins over to private practice

Radiology Business

The deal covers the independent hospital's main facility, several community sites and five walk-in care centers, Commonwealth Radiology Associates announced Thursday.

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The Academic Radiology Salary Gap

Ben White

They used to say academics was less production/pay and private practice was high stress/high comp. Perhaps counterintuitively, strong private practice in the face of the labor shortage is one of the factors driving up academic compensation. The post The Academic Radiology Salary Gap first appeared on Ben White.

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Nearly 80% of physicians now work for hospitals or other corporate entities as private practice dwindles

Radiology Business

For the first time, the percentage of practice ownership by PE firms and other corporate entities (30%) surpassed hospitals or health systems' share (28%).