What would you like to see in a scheduling program?

[USCDiver]

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I'm currently looking into having a computer program custom made to handle ER resident scheduling. I really only have my own program's schedule with it's own quirks and issues to go by, so I'm looking for input on the features you would like to see in such a program. I'm currently planning on including such things as:

• Allowing the user to define the shifts their department uses (i.e 12s, 10s, 9s, 8s, swings, combinations, etc)
• Numbers of shifts for each class of resident
• Requested days off as well as scheduled vacations
• Will automatically take into account RRC work hour restrictions (ie 12h max shift, 12h between shifts, no more than 6 in a row, etc)
• Off service rotators with their clinic days and vacation requests

As well as a few other options.

Any thoughts would be appreciated, especially from any once and future Chiefs.

Thanks,
USCDiver

 

[NinerNiner999]

We use a program here called "Tangiers", which allows for everything you discussed and more. Hope everything's well in ECU, Diver!

 

[USCDiver]

Things are great here Niner... tell me about this Tangiers program, I can't find anything about it on Google.

 

[EMIMG]

www.tangierweb.com

 

[Sessamoid]

There are a few other scheduling programs. One of the hospitals I work at has a home grown excel spreadsheet with handy warnings and scripts and such. Not as good as the commercial programs, but it's customized for our specific needs.

 

[KGUNNER1]

There are a few other scheduling programs. One of the hospitals I work at has a home grown excel spreadsheet with handy warnings and scripts and such. Not as good as the commercial programs, but it's customized for our specific needs.

We used amion (Am I on?) http://amion.com/ and it worked very well. When I used to do schedules, it worked nicely with very complex situations. Very inexpensive, relatively speaking.

kg

 

[DrQuinn]

We used amion (Am I on?) http://amion.com/ and it worked very well. When I used to do schedules, it worked nicely with very complex situations. Very inexpensive, relatively speaking.

kg

Hm... when I did PICU, the USF Peds program used AMION.com... it was pretty sweet to check out who was on call when... might have to look into that when I begin to schedule for next year (get to start doing that next month).

Q

 

[Homunculus]

Hm... when I did PICU, the USF Peds program used AMION.com... it was pretty sweet to check out who was on call when... might have to look into that when I begin to schedule for next year (get to start doing that next month).

Q

we use amion as well. 👍 definitely nice and will work for most everything you asked in your original post.

--your friendly neighborhood peds leads the way caveman

 

[KGUNNER1]

we use amion as well. 👍 definitely nice and will work for most everything you asked in your original post.

--your friendly neighborhood peds leads the way caveman

I remember emailing the owner of the company, who is also the program designer, many times to trouble shoot little problems. He would get back to me within a couple of hours. Excellent service! He basically tailor made our call schedule at Pitt.

Interesting story, his wife was a peds chief and did the schedules the old way, on pieces of paper. It took hundreds of hours to do the rotation and call schedules. He was (is) a computer programmer and thought he could write a program that could do this work better, quicker, as well as keeping a running record and not allowing you to screw it up. He was right!!! Take it from someone that has scheduled both ways, AMION was a blessing!!

kg

 

[Homunculus]

and an even cooler part is trying to guess other program's passwords and seeing their call schedules . .. 😎

some places need to be more creative, lol


--your friendly neighborhood snooping caveman