Scheduling for Program Directors That Actually Works
Thrawn's managed service takes your constraints — ACGME rules, resident preferences, rotation requirements — and delivers finished, compliant schedules. You review. We build.
The Program Director Scheduling Burden
Hundreds of Hours Lost Annually
Building block, call, and clinic schedules from scratch consumes weeks of your academic year — time that belongs to resident education and clinical leadership.
ACGME Violations Caught Too Late
Rule-based tools and spreadsheets surface duty hour violations after the schedule is built, forcing last-minute rebuilds before your next site visit.
One Change Breaks Everything
A single swap request cascades across block, call, and clinic schedules. What started as a simple fix turns into a multi-day reconstruction effort.
Finished Schedules Delivered to Program Directors
Thrawn's proprietary Scheduling Programming Language applies mathematical optimization to your program's exact constraints and delivers complete block, call, clinic, and attending schedules for review. You stop building schedules entirely. ACGME compliance is enforced at generation time, fairness is mathematically guaranteed, and your role shifts from scheduler to approver.
Built for How Program Directors Actually Work
Five capabilities selected for the specific regulatory, educational, and operational demands program directors manage every scheduling cycle.
Managed Service
Review Finished Schedules Instead of Building Them
Program directors submit rotation requirements, resident preferences, and ACGME rules. Thrawn returns a complete schedule ready for review. No software to operate, no conflicts to manually resolve.
- Send constraints, receive finished schedules
- Clarification rounds ensure accuracy
- Chiefs and PDs become approvers not builders
Compliance
ACGME Compliance Enforced Before Schedules Are Published
Every schedule Thrawn generates is automatically checked against ACGME duty hour rules during optimization — not after. Program directors never inherit a compliance problem from the scheduling process.
- Violations prevented at generation time
- 80-hour rule and rest period enforcement
- Accreditation audit readiness built in
Schedule Coordination
Block Call and Clinic Schedules Optimized Together
Thrawn treats block, call, clinic, and attending schedules as one interconnected system. A change in one does not break the others — eliminating the cascade failures that consume program directors' time.
- All schedule types treated as one system
- Eliminates cascading domino failures
- Single constraint set drives all outputs
Educational Requirements
Graduation Requirements Built Into Every Schedule
Educational milestones and graduation requirements are hard constraints in the optimization — not afterthoughts. Program directors can trust that every resident's schedule reflects their curriculum obligations.
- Minimum rotation weeks per specialty enforced
- PGY-level appropriate assignments guaranteed
- Required experiences tracked as hard constraints
Rapid Response
Unexpected Absences Resolved Without Manual Patching
When a resident is unexpectedly unavailable, Thrawn re-optimizes the affected schedules rapidly — maintaining fairness and ACGME compliance without requiring program directors to manually patch coverage.
- Full re-optimization on unplanned absences
- Coverage and compliance maintained automatically
- No emergency phone trees required
Frequently Asked Questions
Stop Building Schedules. Start Reviewing Them.
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