Update on the Diagnostic Radiologist Employment Market: Findings Through 2004
Daniel D. Saket1,
Chukwuemeka C. Nwanze2,
C. Douglas Maynard3,
Jonathan H. Sunshine2,4 and
Howard P. Forman2,5
1 Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400
Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104.
2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New
Haven, CT 06510.
3 Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Winston-Salem, NC.
4 Research Department, The American College of Radiology, Reston, VA
20191.
5 Department of Economics, Yale College, and Yale University School of
Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510.
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Fig. 1 —Map of United States shows geographic regions used for coding
of advertisements. Alaska is included in the Northwest and Hawaii in the
Southwest.
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Fig. 2 —Bar graph shows average number of vacancies per academic
program from 2001 to 2004.
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Fig. 3 —Line graph shows number of job listings per job seeker at
Professional Bureau Placement Service of the American College of Radiology
during week of annual meeting of Radiological Society of North America,
1990-2004. Gap in line indicates no data for 2001.
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Fig. 4 —Graph shows actual number of advertisements (bars)
per month in American Journal of Roentgenology and Radiology
from January 1991 through December 2004, with 12-month rolling average
(red line) calculated to reduce seasonal variation. Note that the
rolling average peaked in summer of 1992, bottomed out at end of 1995, and
peaked again in early 2002. Also note obvious downtrend in rolling average
from February 2002 to December 2004.
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Fig. 5 —Scatterplot shows percentage of change month-to-month using
rolling average data seen in Figure
4. Note three clear inflections points: June 1992, when the
percentage of change switches from positive to negative; December 1995, when
the percentage of change switches back from negative to positive; and March
2002, when the percentage of change switches to being negative after hovering
around zero for about a year. Further data are required to assess whether
December 2004 represents a true inflection point or a temporary blip.
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Fig. 6 —Bar graph shows overall number of advertisements per year
(gray bars) in American Journal of Roentgenology and
Radiology for diagnostic radiologists, sorted by practice type, from
years 1991 through 2004. Note that both private practice (blue bars)
and academic (red bars) positions have decreased since 2002. In
addition, note the difference between private practice and academic
advertisements has continued to narrow since 2000.
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Fig. 7 —Bar graph displays the regional ratios for academic
advertisements—that is, the proportion of academic-to-total
advertisements—for each geographic region. The data for 2003-2004
(white bars) are compared with 2001-2002 (black bars).
Please note that the Northeast maintains the highest regional ratio for
academic advertisements and also shows the highest percentage and absolute
increases for this ratio when 2003-2004 is compared with 2001-2002.
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Fig. 8 —Pie chart shows percentage of positions advertised by
geographic region for 2-year period from January 2003 through December 2004.
Note greatest proportion is in Northeast, followed by Midwest and
Southeast.
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Fig. 9 —Pie chart shows percentage of positions advertised by
subspecialty for 2-year period from January 2003 through December 2004.
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