Physicians at Chicago-based McGaw Medical Center are working over 80 hours per week while collecting inadequate compensation, organizers said.

However, about 62% of decision-makers at the management and executive level said they plan to do so within the next five years. 

The first institutions are slated to open this year via health system partnerships in Boston, Charlotte, Dallas and Houston. 

About 60% of those surveyed said they had more than $100,000 in liabilities after graduating from medical school, researchers detailed in Clinical Imaging. 

Across 3,000 U.S. physicians surveyed, 60% took three weeks of vacation or fewer per year and 70% worked while away, both factors leading to burnout.

Employing a "silver squad" of former physicians to decompress work lists should be a "strong consideration" for any practice, one expert argued. 

He first joined the college as general counsel in 1998, previously working with the U.S. Department of Defense.

Geraldine McGinty, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, explains how practices can retain radiologists during the Great Resignation in healthcare.