Physician Salary Survey Indicates 70% of Radiologists Would Choose Medicine
Again
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Among 277 radiologists
responding to a national salary survey conducted this past summer by
LocumTenens.com, only 7% said they were not frustrated about practicing
medicine in today's healthcare marketplace. The remaining respondents
identified with a list of possible frustrations as follows:
- Medical liability issues - 24%
- Lifestyle issues: Too much time at work - 22%
- Administrative and business agendas interfere with clinical decisions -
16%
- Reimbursement issues - 14%
Among the 60% of responding radiologists who answered the open-ended
question regarding which one thing they would change about the practice of
medicine if they could, 39% mentioned medical liability. Another 12% cited
reimbursement issues.
"Liability issues and low reimbursement levels have forced many
radiologists out of providing certain services, mammography being chief
among them," LocumTenens.com Vice President Katie Thill said. "The
mammography situation got serious enough that in 2004 the Institute of
Medicine warned that access to breast cancer screening is threatened by a
shortage of physicians performing breast imaging interpretation."
Regardless of their frustration, 70% of survey respondents said they
would choose medicine as a career path if they had it to do over again.
This compares with respondents from other specialties as follows:
- 56% of obstetricians/gynecologists
- 57% of orthopedic surgeons
- 67% of anesthesiologists
- 69% of general surgeons
- 70% of pediatricians and internists
More than half of responding radiologists (59%) said they had no plans
to change jobs in the foreseeable future. However, about a third (33%) of
survey respondents said they planned to change jobs within the next two
years, almost half of those (15%) within six months. (To see complete
radiologist survey results, click here:
http://www.locumtenens.com/radiology_salaries2006.)
As the Radiological Society of North America begins meeting in Chicago
this weekend, physician recruiting firm LocumTenens.com shared these and
other highlights of its 2006 radiologist salary survey.
Regarding physician salaries, the LocumTenens.com survey results
indicate the average radiologist salary decreased by almost 7%, from
$354,260 in 2005 to $330,100 in 2006. This year's survey results indicate
that 40% of radiologists earn annual salaries of $300,000 or less, with 22%
of those earning less than $225,000 per year. Slightly more than a fourth
of respondents (27%) earn annual salaries of more than $400,000.
Eighty-eight percent of survey participants were male, 88% were board-
certified, and more than half (58%) had practiced medicine for more than 10
years. Sixty-one percent of responding radiologists reported working as a
locum tenens radiologist at least some of the time; another 34% said they
would consider it.
Founded in 1995, LocumTenens.com is a full-service physician/CRNA
recruiting firm specializing in supplemental placement of
anesthesiologists, radiologists, psychiatrists, surgeons and CRNAs with
U.S. hospitals, medical groups and community health centers.
LocumTenens.com is part of the Jackson Healthcare Staffing family of
companies. To learn more, visit the company's web site at
http://www.locumtenens.com/media.
SOURCE LocumTenens.com
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Related links:
http://www.locumtenens.com
http://www.locumtenens.com/radiology_salaries2006
http://www.locumtenens.com/media
CONTACT:
Billie Wickstrom of LocumTenens.com,
+1-888-268-2456, or wickstrom@locumtenens.com
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