Residency call schedule
Balance call, nights, weekends, rotations, preferences and duty-hour constraints with a fairness score before publication.
Residency call schedule software helps chief residents balance call, nights, weekends, rotations, preferences and duty-hour constraints. SaniShift supports structured rules, approved swaps, exports and a transparent fairness score that helps explain difficult assignments before the resident schedule is published clearly.
Chief residents do not only fill calendar slots. They have to balance education, service coverage, rotation needs, vacations, night float, weekend call, holidays, clinic conflicts and resident preferences.
Use SaniShift to structure call types, availability, rest constraints, resident preferences and swap approval, then review fairness before publishing.
The 2025 ACGME residency requirements include the 80-hour weekly limit averaged over four weeks, one day in seven free averaged over four weeks and in-house call no more frequently than every third night averaged over four weeks.
80-hour weekly limit averaged over four weeks
One day in seven free averaged over four weeks
In-house call no more frequently than every third night
Create shift types for call, night float, weekend coverage, backup, clinic-related coverage and service-specific assignments. Add resident availability, vacations, rotation constraints, post-call rest rules and restrictions for residents who cannot cover a given service.
Then generate a draft and review the fairness score. For residency schedules, fairness often means more than equal counts. It includes nights, weekends, holidays, heavy sequences and how well preferences were considered.
Residency call schedule software helps chief residents and program teams build resident call, night, weekend, backup and rotation-related schedules. It should support constraints, preferences, time-free rules, fairness review, swaps and exports. It is different from a full residency management or accreditation platform.
No. SaniShift is a scheduling workflow, not a legal or accreditation compliance engine. It can help structure duty-hour and time-free constraints, but the program remains responsible for validating schedules against current ACGME requirements, institutional policies and specialty-specific rules before publication.
Yes. SaniShift includes a transparent fairness score from 0 to 100. For residency schedules, the score helps the chief resident review nights, weekends, holidays, heavy sequences and difficult assignments before publication. It gives the group a visible basis for discussion instead of relying only on memory.
SaniShift supports swap requests with schedule maker approval. A resident can request a change, and the chief resident or planning lead can review coverage, fairness and constraint impact before approving it. This prevents informal swaps from creating hidden schedule problems after publication.
SaniShift stores no patient data (PHI), so it operates outside HIPAA's scope. Use it for staff scheduling data only: residents, shifts, constraints, availability, open shifts, swaps and exports. Patient names, diagnoses, charts and encounter details should not be entered in the schedule.
Staff schedules, fairness review, approved swaps and exports for small medical groups.
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