Featured blog post: The great hospitalist scheduling debate
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, April 28, 2009
For years at Inpatient Management, Inc., we resisted the 7-days on/7-days off schedule for a whole host of reasons, but a couple of years ago, we stopped swimming against the current of the recruiting river. However, not everyone is enthralled with organizing their life in seven-day increments, and thus, the search for the elusive perfect schedule continues.
There are options designed to ease your scheduling pain, including traditional, block, and workload-based scheduling. With the block schedule, every other week can feel like a vacation. According to Today’s Hospitalist, citing the most recent data from the Society of Hospital Medicine, “40% of hospitalist groups now report using only shift-based scheduling.” The most common block schedule consists of seven days on and seven days off. . .Read more of the pros and cons of the “Scheduling debate” post by Kirk Mathews, MBA, of Inpatient Management, Inc.
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