Publications by authors named "Frank Lexa"

Article Synopsis
  • - The white paper highlights seven key challenges in radiology, including issues like declining reimbursement and labor shortages, which are critical for the profession’s future sustainability.
  • - It emphasizes the impact of corporatization, imaging appropriateness, and burnout on radiologists, alongside the ongoing conflicts with nonphysicians and the need for improved workflow efficiency.
  • - The Intersociety Summer Conference-2023 gathered experts to discuss these challenges and brainstorm potential solutions to ensure the viability of the radiology field moving forward.
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Since the great resignation associated with the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, radiology practices are now challenged with maintaining adequate radiology staffing requirements to cope with increasing clinical workload requirements. The authors describe practical strategies for radiology practice leaders to retain radiologists in the current challenging job market, while mitigating their burnout.

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In recent years, there has a been a rapid and significant drop in the number of private practices in US radiology. Many factors have driven this change. One of the most important has been the corporatization of practices.

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The ACR Intersociety Committee meeting of 2022 (ISC-2022) was convened around the theme of "Recovering From The Great Resignation, Moral Injury and Other Stressors: Rebuilding Radiology for a Robust Future." Representatives from 29 radiology organizations, including all radiology subspecialties, radiation oncology, and medical physics, as well as academic and private practice radiologists, met for 3 days in early August in Park City, Utah, to search for solutions to the most pressing problems facing the specialty of radiology in 2022. Of these, the mismatch between the clinical workload and the available radiologist workforce was foremost-as many other identifiable problems flowed downstream from this, including high job turnover, lack of time for teaching and research, radiologist burnout, and moral injury.

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This special focus issue article provides a large number of contemporary and seminal resources developed to improve well-being and discusses specific challenges and proposed strategies to mitigate burnout through the Veterans Health Administration, a large private academic practice, and academic medical centers.

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Burnout in US radiology has reached crisis proportions. Leaders play critical roles in both causing and preventing burnout. This article will review the current state of the crisis and how leaders can work to stop causing burnout as well as developing proactive strategies for preventing and mitigating burnout.

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Purpose: Worldwide, radiologists are experiencing increasing clinical workloads with associated increased burnout. This paper will review burnout definitions, prevalence, and causes. We will also share data from a survey of US neuroradiologists as an example of the impact of work-work imbalances from clinical overload.

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Objective: With the initiative of the ACR International Economics Committee, a multinational survey was conducted to evaluate radiology residency programs around the world.

Methods: A 31-question survey was developed. It included: economic issues, program size and length, resident's activities during daytime and call, academic aspects including syllabus and examinations.

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