Done in a Day: The 4 Ingredient On-Call Schedule – Scheduling

amy 07 12, 2018

Have you heard about "4-ingredient" cookbooks? How about the book "A Man, a Can, and a Plan"? What do they all have in common? They each advocate all you need to do is assemble the four ingredients listed, follow the...

amy 04 24, 2014

We know "equal" is always fair until it's not... such as when sharing on-call with another Group or scheduling part-time Physicians. We also know spread needs to be pretty even throughout the scheduling time period. However, if the spread is...

amy 06 14, 2013

You can easily add an app-looking icon to the home screen of your iPhone for one-click access to your on-call Schedule MicroSite, Call Scheduler login page, or other favorite locations. No iTunes account or app needed! For your iPhone… First,...

amy 02 04, 2013

How happy are your Physicians with their allotted time and frequency of vacation? What are other Groups doing to crack this nut? In recent years, I have noticed more and more foreign last names in the Groups we serve. I...

amy 11 13, 2012

Planning for a new On-Call Scheduling system needs to include more than the cut-and-dried process and timeline to accomplish tasks. The people-factor can have a huge impact on the success of your project! In a continuation of the previous article,...

amy 10 12, 2012

When best-intentioned providers try to come up with scheduling methods to meet their needs, but they cannot (or will not) change those ideas when confronted with the reality of generating a repeatable schedule... you can be sure the scheduler will...