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The Irreplaceable Radiologist

Ben White

The radiologist shortage is definitely here. What’s happening now varies and what will happen is anyone’s guess, but this anonymous op-ed “ Radiologists need to be realistic about the job market ” is absolutely worth reading. The group is unable to afford hiring radiologists in the current market.

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The Radiologist Shortage is Here

Ben White

It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: these are my opinions, formed from the combination of my biases, my experience as a radiologist since beginning residency 10 years ago, and my many conversations with radiologists across the country. Nationwide, the supply of radiologists is basically flat. Six weeks?!

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Radiologists and other physicians question medicine’s ‘workaholic culture’

Radiology Business

But also, let doctors be doctors, and you’ll see how many of them happily work 60 hours a week," one noted radiologist wrote. “Do we need to change the culture of medicine?

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Radiologists best ChatGPT, Gemini in assigning PI-RADS categories

AuntMinnie

A team led by Kang-Lung Lee, MD, from the University of Cambridge in England found that radiologists outperformed all LLMs analyzed in its study, including ChatGPT and Google Gemini, in terms of accuracy for PI-RADS classification based on prostate MRI text reports. The radiologists outperformed all the LLMs. 0.65; Bard, 0.57.

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Rising workloads spur academic radiologists to spend less time training residents

Radiology Business

“This increase in workload could impact the time available to dedicate to teaching the next generation of radiologists and has additional implications regarding burnout,” one expert noted.

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Generative AI, radiologist shortages feature in 2024 Minnies

AuntMinnie

The voters also zeroed in on the ongoing shortage of radiologists as the Biggest Threat to Radiology. Fishman concedes that there are barriers to educational pursuits in the radiology sphere -- not the least of which is pressure on radiologists to generate high relative value units. But these barriers aren't deal-breakers.

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96% of Radiologists Are Proud to Be Associated With vRad

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Recently, 331 radiologists provided a glimpse into vRad by participating in Gallagher’s nationally benchmarked engagement survey of 12,000 radiologists.