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Guest Editorial| Volume 26, ISSUE 10, P1385-1389, October 01, 2019

A Call to Action – Our Radiology Chairs Are Burning Out

Published:April 29, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2019.03.002
A Call to Action – Our Radiology Chairs Are Burning Out
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      Leaders of academic radiology practices in the United States are experiencing one or more symptoms of burnout. This should not be a surprise given current reports suggesting that 45% of practicing radiologists are also experiencing one or more of these symptoms (
      • Harolds J.A.
      • Parikh J.R.
      • Bluth E.I.
      • et al.
      Burnout of radiologists: frequency, risk factors, and remedies: a report of the ACR commission on human resources.
      J Am Coll Radiol. 2016; 13: 411-416
      ,
      • Fishman M.D.
      • Mehta T.S.
      • Siewert B.
      • et al.
      The road to wellness-engagement strategies to help radiologists achieve joy at work.
      Radiographics. 2018; 38: 1651-1664
      ,
      • Kruskal J.B.
      • Shanafelt T.
      • Eby P.
      • et al.
      A road map to foster wellness and engagement in our workplace—a report of the 2018 Summer Intersociety Meeting.
      JACR. 2018;
      ). Data from recent surveys supports similar burnout rates in leaders in other medical disciplines (
      • Gabbe S.G.
      • Vetter M.H.
      • Nguyen M.C.
      • et al.
      Changes in the burnout profile of chairs of academic departments of obstetrics and gynecology over the past 15 years.
      Am J Ob Gynecol. 2018; 219: 303.e1-303.e6
      ,
      • Kusano A.S.
      • Thomas C.R.
      • Bonner J.A.
      • et al.
      Burnout in United States academic chairs of radiation oncology programs.
      Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2014; 88: 363-368
      ,
      • De Oliviera G.S.
      • Ahmad S.
      • Stock M.C.
      • et al.
      High incidence of burnout in academic chairpersons of anesthesiology.
      Anesthesiol. 2011; 114: 181-193
      ,
      • Cruz O.A.
      • Pole C.J.
      • Thomas S.M.
      Burnout in chairs of academic departments of ophthalmology.
      Ophthalmology. 2007; 114: 2350-2355
      ). A recent survey of academic radiology chairs by Ganeshan et al (
      • Ganeshan D.M.
      • Wei W.
      • Yang W.
      Burnout in chairs of academic radiology departments in the United States.
      Acad Radiol. 2019;
      ), the first to collect such data specific to radiology chairs, demonstrated that almost 40% of radiology chairs are experiencing one or more symptoms of burnout, and 5% are experiencing symptoms of high burnout.
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      Article Info

      Publication History

      Published online: April 29, 2019
      Accepted: March 8, 2019
      Received: March 6, 2019

      Identification

      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2019.03.002

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      © 2019 The Association of University Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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