Interventional Radiology Workforce Shortages Affecting Small and Rural Practices: A Report of the SIR/ACR Joint Task Force on Recruitment and Retention of Interventional Radiologists to Small and Rural Practices

Laura K Findeiss; Catherine Everett; Ezana Azene; Kelly Biggs; Elizabeth Ignacio; Alan H Matsumoto; Dennis Kay; Oleksandra Kutsenko; Ray Liu; Vivek Padha; Gilles Soulez; Tim Swan

doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2022.08.004

Interventional Radiology Workforce Shortages Affecting Small and Rural Practices: A Report of the SIR/ACR Joint Task Force on Recruitment and Retention of Interventional Radiologists to Small and Rural Practices

J Am Coll Radiol. 2022 Dec;19(12):1322-1335. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2022.08.004. Epub 2022 Oct 7.

Authors

Laura K Findeiss¹, Catherine Everett², Ezana Azene³, Kelly Biggs⁴, Elizabeth Ignacio⁵, Alan H Matsumoto⁶, Dennis Kay⁷, Oleksandra Kutsenko⁸, Ray Liu⁹, Vivek Padha¹⁰, Gilles Soulez¹¹, Tim Swan¹²

Affiliations

¹ Chief of Radiology, Grady Health System, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. Electronic address: laura.findeiss@gmail.com.
² Managing Partner, Coastal Radiology, New Bern, North Carolina; Member-at-Large, ACR Board of Chancellors; Associate Chief Medical Officer, Practice Analytics, RadPartners, El Segundo, California; and Secretary, American Association for Women Radiologists. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/cjeverett.
³ Chair, Commission on Cancer, Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/AceneMD.
⁴ Chief of Radiology, James E. VanZandt VA Medical Center, State College, Pennsylvania.
⁵ Hawaii Pacific Health, Kahului, Hawaii; and Member, ACR Council Steering Committee. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/ElizabethAnnig1.
⁶ Chair and Theodore E. Keats Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia Health, Charlottesville, and Virginia; Vice Chair, ACR Board of Chancellors.
⁷ System Chair, Department of Radiology, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, Louisiana.
⁸ Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Miami, Florida. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/kutsenkoMD.
⁹ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; and Vice President, Massachusetts General Brigham Global Advisory. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/rwliu.
¹⁰ Chief of Radiology West Virginia University, Martinsburg, West Virginia.
¹¹ Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Director of the Imaging and Engineering Research Axis, CHUM Research Center; and President, Canadian Association of Radiologists.
¹² Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, Wisconsin; and Member-at-Large, ACR Board of Chancellors. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/TimSwanMD.

PMID: 36216708
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2022.08.004

Abstract

Radiology practices characterized as small and rural are challenged to recruit and retain interventional radiologists. Lack of access to interventional radiologic services results in a failure to meet the needs of patients, hospitals, and other community stakeholders. Acknowledging this challenge, the ACR's Commission on General, Small, Emergency and/or Rural Practice and Commission on Interventional and Cardiovascular Imaging and the Society of Interventional Radiology partnered to establish a joint task force to study this issue and identify strategies the ACR and the Society of Interventional Radiology should take to improve small and rural practice recruitment and retention of interventional radiologists. This report describes the deliberations and recommendations of the task force.

Keywords: Interventional radiology; clinical care; economics; health equity; practice management; rural.

MeSH terms

Advisory Committees
Humans
Radiologists*
Radiology, Interventional*
Workforce