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The residency schedule is the beating heart of an academic medical center. Without it, residents aren’t able to learn and patients aren’t able to get care. The Move to Block Schedules Historically, resident schedules consisted of inpatient rotations with weekly shifts in ambulatory clinics. This model was called into question around 2005, when a consensus […]

Historically, the approach to provider scheduling can best be described as “divide and conquer.” Using this tactic, physicians are often clustered by practice group or by specialty. For example, physicians from a particular radiology group have one call schedule and anesthesiologists from a different group have another. When each independently sends its schedule to the […]

When those responsible for scheduling physicians use manual processes or spreadsheets, they can feel as though they’re endlessly reinventing the wheel. In contrast, scheduling software provides a physician schedule template that streamlines processes and improves accuracy. What is a Physician Schedule Template? A physician schedule template is a tool that outlines a set of shifts […]

Physician assistants have been part of the healthcare landscape since the 1970s. While roughly 25 percent of PAs work in primary care, physician assistants also work in a variety of specialties, including emergency medicine (12 percent), orthopedic surgery (11 percent), and hospital medicine (4 percent). Over half (54 percent) of licensed PAs work in office-based […]

In a typical year, more than 1.6 million Americans receive hospice care. Hospice nurses are an integral part of the hospice care team, which often also includes therapists, physicians, bereavement counselors, social workers, and aides. Together, the team works to manage the patient’s pain, teach the family to care for the patient, and help the […]

Over the course of any given week, doctors can interact with up to a dozen different types of physician software. Some physician software is designed to improve patient outcomes, while others are intended to streamline administrative processes. Some do both. Here are the top six types of software used by physicians. 1. Electronic Health Record […]