Guides

These are the questions that come before software: what a fair call policy actually says, how to rotate weekends and holidays so the arithmetic holds up over years rather than months, and what the duty-hour rules require of a schedule.

They are written to be useful whether or not you ever use this product.

Policy and fairness

• Designing a fair call policy — what a policy has to decide, which definitions of "fair" conflict, and how to write one that survives contact with a real month.
• Equitable weekend and holiday rotation — why simple rotation drifts, and how to keep the count even over years.

Compliance

• ACGME duty-hour compliance — the requirements that constrain a residency schedule, and how to build against them rather than audit afterwards.

People

• Reducing scheduling burnout — the workload patterns that predict it, which of them a schedule controls, and what to measure.

Changing how you do it

• Moving off spreadsheet scheduling — what a spreadsheet is actually good at, what it cannot do, and what has to be in place before a department can switch.

Reference

• Glossary — the terms used across these guides, defined once.
• Frequently asked questions — about the product rather than the practice.