Shortage specialties: radiology.

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The llhirsing Shortage Clondmies As Facnily Shortage Grows

O The main reasons for the lack of faculty to meet the demand for more nurses include the increased age of the current faculty and the declining number of years ieft to teach, expected increases in facuity retirements, less compensation for academic teaching than positions in clinical areas for master's-prepared nurses, and finaiiy, not enough master's and doctoral-prepared nurses to fiii the n...

Physician career satisfaction across specialties.

BACKGROUND The career satisfaction and dissatisfaction physicians experience likely influence the quality of medical care. OBJECTIVE To compare career satisfaction across specialties among US physicians. METHODS We analyzed data from the Community Tracking Study of 12 474 physicians (response rate, 65%) for the late 1990s. Data are cross-sectional. Two satisfaction variables were created: v...

Pneumococcal Vaccination in Different Specialties.

P disease can be dangerous, and sometimes fatal, in people above the age of 50 years and with certain chronic medical condit ions . This may be true even when the chronic medical condition is well controlled with medication and/or lifestyle m a n a g e m e n t . P n e u m o c o c c a l vaccination needs to be used more consistently to reduce the risk of pneumococcal infection in these indiv idu...

Physician career satisfaction within specialties

BACKGROUND Specialty-specific data on career satisfaction may be useful for understanding physician workforce trends and for counseling medical students about career options. METHODS We analyzed cross-sectional data from 6,590 physicians (response rate, 53%) in Round 4 (2004-2005) of the Community Tracking Study Physician Survey. The dependent variable ranged from +1 to -1 and measured satisf...