Abstract:There are various methods for scheduling emergency physicians ranging from a schedule created by hand by a physician scheduler, fixed templates, to computer‐assisted scheduling. The authors describe a novel method adopted by an academic emergency department using remote asynchronous physician self‐scheduling. The physician group follows a pre‐determined order in which each physician chooses where to place his or her assigned proportion of day/evening/weekend/night shifts on the shared calendar that is hosted i… Show more
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