Dear AuntMinnie.com Member,
The red-hot radiology job market is showing evidence of cooling down, according to a recently released study that examined help-wanted ads for signs of employment trends in medical imaging. But don’t expect any good news if you’re an employer looking to fill a position in the Midwest or in academic radiology -- there are still far more positions available than there are radiologists to fill them.
A multicenter group of researchers examined help-wanted ads in Radiology and the American Journal of Roentgenology, analyzing both the number of ads appearing in any given month as well as the type of positions that were available. We’re featuring their findings this month in our Imaging Center Digital Community.
They found that the radiology job market bottomed out in July 1995, when there were just 37 ads for radiologists in the two journals that were studied. That compares to the peak of the job market in December 2001, when there were 599 ads published.
The number of ads began declining in 2002, although ad volume remains at historically high levels. Also, the researchers found that the number of ads for academic radiologists has continued to increase; the same goes for the number of ads for practices in the Midwest. This phenomenon is an indication of continued labor shortages in these areas, the researchers said.
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