Your physicians pick their own shifts, like a fantasy football draft.
Physician schedules usually get built by one person, over weeks of email, and land on a calendar nobody chose. ScheduleForward is scheduling software for physician groups, emergency departments, clinics and operating rooms. It gives teams four connected ways to build a schedule:
- Draft: clinicians take turns picking their own shifts, live, on a pick clock. It is a scheduling mode we have not seen anywhere else.
- Generator: a constraint-based optimization engine that builds a proposed schedule from your coverage requirements, preferences, quotas and rules, in seconds rather than hours.
- Guided: place assignments step by step.
- Manual: place every shift yourself.
The Draft
Picture draft night, with shifts in place of players.
- Pre-pick phase: seniority and hardship protections are honored before the first round opens.
- Pick clock: every round is on the clock, and the clock pauses overnight so nobody loses a turn while they sleep.
- Auto-pick: if time runs out, the pick is made with the same rules a person picking would face.
- Rescue picks: if someone is about to be left without the shifts they need (say an approved vacation has narrowed their options), ScheduleForward gives them a pick out of turn, before the last shift that works for them is taken.
The result is a schedule each provider built themselves, one pick at a time. Nobody gets handed a calendar and told to live with it.
The Generator
When a team would rather have the work done for them, the Generator produces a complete proposed schedule in seconds. It is not a language model, and it is not trained on your data. Nothing publishes automatically: an administrator reviews and approves every schedule before anyone sees it.
Who it is for
Physician groups, emergency departments, clinics and OR teams, and the person who has been building the schedule by hand.
Free for teams of 8 or fewer. Larger teams pay $9 per user per month, with no startup fee.
Try the live demo, no signup or sales call: https://scheduleforward.com/try-it