An Innovative Approach to Resident Scheduling: Use of a Point-Based System to Account for Resident Preferences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The scheduling of residents for rotation assignments and on-call responsibilities is a time-consuming process that challenges the resources of residency programs. Assignment of schedules is traditionally done by chief residents or program administration with variable input from the residents involved.

Intervention

We introduced an innovative point-based scheduling system to increase transparency in the scheduling process, foster a sense of fairness and equality in scheduling, and increase resident ownership for making judicious scheduling choices.

Methods

We devised a point-based system in which each resident in our 40-member program was allocated an equal number of points. The residents assigned these points to their preferred choices of rotations. Residen

SUBMITTER: Chow RT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4597959 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature