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How to choose the right healthcare schedule maker for your organization
Healthcare scheduling systems are becoming more popular, benefiting clinicians and organizations alike. A healthcare schedule maker can reduce turnover rates, for example, and decrease physician burnout. While it is important to integrate a shift ...
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Great Moments in Emergency Medicine
While emergency medicine as a specialty is relatively new, trauma care is as old as medicine itself. Extraordinary people and discoveries have shaped emergency medicine throughout the millennia. In fact, many of the procedures we use today were ...
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How technological advances are reshaping emergency medicine
Many of tomorrow’s medical marvels are already here! When developing new technologies, engineers often build upon successful models that already exist. Today’s CTs are direct descendants of yesterday’s x-rays, for example, and sutures made from ...
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What doctors like to do on their time off and how scheduling software can help with life balance
Putting in an average of 51.4 hours each week, doctors don’t have a lot of time to rest; this is especially true for clinicians working on irregular schedules. When physicians do get away from work, their time off is often quite short, so they have ...
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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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