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The fascinating history of employee scheduling
Shift work has been around since the dawn of civilization. About 3000 years ago, for example, a rotating labor force built Egypt’s Great Pyramid. About 2500 years ago, Sun Tzu wrote extensively about scheduling military personnel in his book, “The ...
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Rotating schedules for better physician scheduling
Healthcare managers love rotating schedules! After all, rotating shifts provide a number of benefits for hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Rotating shifts are less popular among physicians and other providers, though. What are ...
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Care of your physicians - how to retain physicians with a great schedule in 6 easy steps
If you have recently onboarded a new doctor, or you already have a staff of excellent physicians, you probably want to keep them as happy as possible. After all, replacing a physician is labor-intensive and expensive. In fact, replacing a physician ...
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Physician assistant scheduling software can reduce burnout and decrease turnover rates
Physician assistants have been around longer than many realize – in fact, the first group of PAs graduated the Duke University Physician Assistant program in 1967. This uniquely American group of healthcare professionals gained acceptance as a ...
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Physician work hours are changing rapidly- can your medical scheduling software handle it
Physician work hours were relatively stable from the 1970s through most of the 1990s, with most doctors working about 55 hours per week. Average weekly hours began to decline in the 21st Century, declining by a whopping 7.6 percent between 2001 and ...
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Physician scheduling may be more complicated in 2025 but MD scheduling software can make it easier
Physician scheduling is always challenging, but shift scheduling will likely be even more complicated in 2025. This year will likely be marked by uncertainty, burnout, physician shortages and more, and each of these can throw a wrench into the works ...
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Hospitalist scheduling software can help reverse the mistake of physician scheduling
When Drs. Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman coined the term “hospitalist,” they gave a name to the new medical specialty. They also created a special work schedule for these physicians. Hospitalists are accustomed to working long hours over the ...
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Preventing physician burnout with emergency medicine scheduling
When it comes to physician burnout, there’s good news and bad news for emergency department doctors. The good news is that physician burnout has dropped from 53% in 2022 to 48.2% in 2023, according to a July 2024 report by the AMA. The bad news is ...
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Why is emergency medicine scheduling is so hard
Emergency medicine is anything but predictable – on any given day and at any given time, an emergency department can go from quiet to chaos in a matter of minutes. In fact, the word “quiet” is often banned from the ED, as the mere mention of the ...
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A physician scheduling program can save your practice a million dollars and provide better care
Physician turnover is a significant problem for medical clinics and hospitals. Reducing physician turnover may be as easy as using a physician scheduling program. Emergency Physician Scheduling and Burnout Turnover rates for physicians have ...
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