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[Activities of radiologists in teaching hospitals]
F Hemery1, P Devred, A Rahmouni
1Service de Biostatistiques. Hôpital Henri Mondor, Marseille.
Aim:
To determine if teaching hospital imaging units are adequately staffed: how are the medical activities of radiologists distributed in such units?
Materials And Methods:
A questionnaire was sent to all teaching hospital radiologists in June 2001. The questionnaire covered 7 areas
Results:
Urgent cases represent, on average, 22% of patients. Imaging procedures are becoming more frequent (increase of 2 to 8% per year). The mean working week (excluding periods on duty and on call) is 48 hours per FTE radiologist. The mean time spent on teaching, expertise and organization is 10 hours per week. The mean working time per FTE radiologist is thus 58 h/week. The medical activity per FTE radiologist represents 530.240e.
Conclusion:
The workload of radiologists in teaching hospitals is extremely high, whatever the indicator used (time or activity), indicating major under-staffing.
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