For the hospitalists at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, scheduling software has helped them achieve targeted flexibility with different kinds of shifts. Christopher Smith, MD, section chief of hospital medicine, says that historically, the academic hospitalists rounded with residents seven-on/seven-off. But “over time, the hospital has asked more and more of us, each resulting in new and different roles,” Dr. Smith says. Those different roles, as well as the fact that the group just kept getting bigger, “drove a natural process to need different kinds of shifts.”
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