According to the new data, students believe that emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, could eventually render some specialties obsolete.

The Aug. 29 statement indicates that non-radiologist physicians, advanced practice providers and registered nurses can oversee intravenous CT and MRI contrast administration at accredited imaging centers.

A new analysis revealed positive trends in academic and society conferences held online, noting that females represented 43.2% of speakers and 48.7% of chairs in 2021.

Although private practice radiology leaders are granted with a great deal of autonomy, managing a practice presents additional stressors that staff radiologists within hospital systems are not routinely burdened with, authors of the new analysis suggested.

A new paper in the Journal of the American College of Radiology digs into the emergence of physician assistants and nurse practitioners in radiology and how it has impacted clinical and procedural volumes and imaging interpretation.

The authors of the new study noted that, even before the pandemic, consultant breast radiologists were among the most in-demand specialists. The loss of interest in it as a specialty due to COVID will inevitably pose further challenges for recruitment.

Initiatives aiming to blunt the effects of burnout are plentiful. However, few efforts have been made to understand whether these initiatives have conjured any positive changes on employee well-being. 

After day shifts began bleeding into night shifts at frustratingly frequent rates, one radiology practice in Kentucky devised a plan to get its lengthy worklists back on track—enter the “bunker shift.”