We are a private practice hospital based group with 40 radiologsts staffing 5 hospitals and 6+ OP clinics. We have a staff member whose main job is to do the physician scheduling. Over the years, we have found that we can only prepare the schedule one week in advance. When we tried to schedule out farther (ex. 2 weekks or more), we found there were too many scheduling changes that had to be made so we went back to just scheduling one week in advance. We do have the radiologists vacation schedule done one year out but scheduling weekly work rotations more than one week out has proven cumbersome and requires our scheduler to spend alot more time with just changes.
I am curious what other groups do and if you schedule more than one week out, how do you deal with the inevitable scheduling conflicts and changes?
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Andrew Farah
Director of Operations
Drs. Harris, Birkhill, Wang, Songe & Associates
Dearborn MI
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