AJR 2001; 176:1078
© American Roentgen Ray Society
The Radiology Job Market
Good News and Bad News for Residents
Ferris M. Hall
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 02215
I enjoyed the two articles
[1,
2] and editorial
[3] in the October issue of
AJR regarding the radiology job market. As a resident advocate and
residency director for 30 years I have witnessed several of these
"sinusoidal swings in demand for radiologists"
[3]. I agree with Dr. Rogers
[3] that a sellers' market
particularly adversely affects academic departments attempting to recruit
fellows and junior faculty. Unfortunately, the brunt of resident and student
teaching usually falls on these younger faculty members.
As these cycles repeat themselves, I remind the residents that they there
is both good and bad news. When jobs are plentiful, as is the case today: the
bad news is their training has probably suffered. On the other hand, in a
buyers' market when jobs are less plentiful, most student teaching and
residency training programs are flourishing.
References
-
Covey AM, Sunshine J, Forman HP. The job market in diagnostic
radiology 1999: updated findings from a help wanted index of job
advertisements. AJR
2000;175:957
-961[Abstract/Free Full Text]
-
Busheé GR, Sunshine JH, Schepps B.
The status of diagnostic radiology training programs and their graduates in
1999. AJR
2000;175:963
-966[Abstract/Free Full Text]
-
Rogers LF. Feeling the pinch: the radiology job market. (editorial)
AJR
2000;175:943[Free Full Text]

CiteULike
Complore
Connotea
Del.icio.us
Digg
Reddit
Technorati What's this?