Residency scheduling for psychiatry that builds itself

Psychiatry residency schedules vary significantly by postgraduate year. PGY1 typically includes off-service rotations such as internal medicine and neurology alongside inpatient psychiatry. PGY2 through PGY4 introduce increasing subspecialty exposure, continuity clinic responsibilities, and varying call structures. Call frequency and overnight obligations generally decrease in upper PGY years as educational focus shifts toward outpatient and subspecialty training. Thrawn's optimization engine accounts for these PGY-level differences when building your program's block and call schedules.

Continuity clinic is one of psychiatry's most scheduling-intensive requirements because it must coexist with inpatient block rotations without creating coverage conflicts. Thrawn's Scheduling Programming Language treats clinic obligations as a hard constraint within the same optimization that produces block and call schedules. This means continuity clinic assignments are never an afterthought — they are baked into the schedule from the first pass, preventing the conflicts that arise when clinic and block schedules are built separately.

Thrawn's fairness engine uses mathematical optimization to distribute call assignments — including overnight, weekend, and holiday shifts — equitably across all residents. Rather than relying on a chief resident's judgment or spreadsheet formulas, the Scheduling Programming Language calculates balanced distributions that account for PGY level, prior assignment history, and individual constraints. The result is a call schedule that is provably fair, reducing complaints and the perception of favoritism common in manually built schedules.

Yes. Unlike tools that detect violations after a schedule is already built, Thrawn's optimization engine prevents violations at generation time. ACGME duty hour rules — including the 80-hour weekly limit, required rest periods, and shift length caps — are encoded as constraints in the Scheduling Programming Language. No psychiatry residency schedule leaves Thrawn's system with a duty hour violation already embedded in it.

Thrawn assigns scheduling specialists who work directly with your program to document your rotation requirements, ACGME rules, continuity clinic obligations, call policies, and resident preferences before any schedule is generated. There is no software to learn or configure. Programs send their constraints and receive finished schedules for review. The managed onboarding process is designed to be low-burden for chiefs, program directors, and coordinators who are already stretched thin.