15 April 2025

Workforce issues were a strong focus of ASMIRT/NZIMRT 2025, with placement poverty, recognition of advanced practice and addressing burnout featuring in presentations and panel discussions. Croakey Health Media reported on these issues and more in Medical radiation professionals highlight ‘placement poverty’ as a key election issue.

ASMIRT President Naomi Gibson told Croakey Health Media she wants to see regulators recognising advanced practice.

Medical Radiation Science student Alana Brkic and recent graduate Ruby Holman discuss the difficulties of taking unpaid clinical placements and how students are burning themselves out working on weekends, so they can afford to work unpaid placements during the week.