Fellowship Scheduling for Cardiology Done Right

Cardiology fellowship programs typically run fellows through multiple simultaneous rotation types — CCU, cath lab, echo, outpatient clinics, and electives — with varying lengths and prerequisite requirements. Thrawn's Scheduling Programming Language ingests all of these constraints simultaneously and produces a complete, conflict-free rotation schedule for the full training year. Rather than suggesting assignments that a chief fellow or coordinator must manually review and patch, Thrawn delivers a finished schedule ready for review.

Yes. ACGME duty hour rules are embedded directly into Thrawn's optimization engine as hard constraints, not post-generation checks. This means cardiology fellowship schedules cannot be generated with violations — the math prevents it at the source. Programs receive schedules that are already compliant, significantly reducing the risk of violations surfacing during an ACGME site visit or annual program review.

Thrawn's fairness engine uses mathematical optimization to distribute CCU nights, weekend call, and holiday coverage equitably across the fellow cohort. The engine accounts for prior assignments, ensuring no fellow disproportionately absorbs undesirable shifts over the course of the year. This removes both actual inequity and the perception of inequity that often generates scheduling complaints in fellowship programs.

No. Thrawn operates as a fully managed service. Program directors, chief fellows, and coordinators provide their constraints — rotation requirements, fellow preferences, call patterns, ACGME rules — and Thrawn's scheduling specialists and optimization engine build the schedule. There is no software to configure or learn. The program's role is to review and approve a finished schedule, not to operate a scheduling platform.

Subspecialty rotation requirements — minimum weeks in cath lab, required CCU time, echocardiography exposure, and elective allocations — are entered as constraints into Thrawn's Scheduling Programming Language during onboarding. The optimization engine treats these as non-negotiable requirements that every schedule must satisfy, ensuring each fellow's training path meets both program-specific and ACGME educational standards without manual tracking by coordinators.