Residency Scedule Template help

[roja]

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Our chiefs are trying to switch to a template system and are running into difficulties (they are trying to build it themselves) with vacations, etc.

Any recommendations? resources I can pass along to them?

 

[Jeff698]

By template, do you mean a standardized schedule that each resident gets 'plugged into' without the ability to request days off?

If so, I don't have any help but am very interested in anything that you find out.

Thanks and take care,
Jeff

 

[GeneralVeers]

Our chiefs are trying to switch to a template system and are running into difficulties (they are trying to build it themselves) with vacations, etc.

Any recommendations? resources I can pass along to them?

Here we make an ED template that can be used every month, as we're on a 28-day cycle. The schedule varies for interns, PGY-2s, and seniors, however for each year it's the same every "block". The residents are plugged in randomly, or based on requested days off into the schedule. It would be hard to give you more specific help, as every residency has different block lengths, number of shifts, and number of residents on each shift.

 

[roja]

We have been on a pretty flexible scedule where people could ask for days off. They are wanting to go to a standardized template type of thing: 3 days on, 2 off, 3 nights.. yadda yadda.

Not sure if there is anything out there but thought I'd toss out a line. We are on 28 day blocks as well.

 

[DrQuinn]

I was the first chief resident at my program, I looked into one scheduling software (I think it was oncall or something), but didn't like it. I ended up just using my own template by using microsoft excel. The first month or two took me a while but I could whip up an ED month schedule in about an hour.

Granted, we only had 18 residents.

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[nocallaochicas]

By template, do you mean a standardized schedule that each resident gets 'plugged into' without the ability to request days off?

If so, I don't have any help

 

[bartleby]

Good thing about templates:

1 The scheduling process is transparent, and everyone rotates through each "spot" on the template
2 Makes it harder for certain individuals to entertain the delusion that they get consistently screwed by the scheduler
3 Makes schedulers job a lot easier

Bad things:

1 No/little flexibility about days off
2 Lots of crap caught by scheduler for not being able to accomodate requests
3 More switches so people can rectify problems above
4 Gives the person(s) in #2 something else to complain about besides the creep who does the schedule (i.e. the crappy template the aforementioned creep managed to come up with)

Any recommendations? resources I can pass along to them?

 

[Apollyon]

2 Makes it harder for certain individuals to entertain the delusion that they get consistently screwed by the scheduler

The first chief residents we had were when I was a second year. At the end of my second year, one of the chiefs (who did the majority of scheduling for the year, as the other one had major difficulties) said outright - without any embellishment or sugarcoating - that he had, multiple times and intentionally, without motive - screwed me on the schedule.