QGenda alternative built for residency programs
Unlike QGenda's rule-based engine, Thrawn's managed service uses mathematical optimization to deliver finished, ACGME-compliant schedules. Program directors review instead of build.
What QGenda Still Can't Do
Conflicts You Still Resolve
QGenda surfaces rule violations and flags conflicts, but a human still has to untangle them. The software reduces scheduling work; it does not eliminate it.
Fairness Nobody Can Prove
Rule-based systems cannot mathematically guarantee equitable distribution of nights, weekends, and holidays. Perceived bias generates complaints that erode program culture.
ACGME Violations Found Too Late
QGenda detects duty hour violations after you have already built the schedule. Fixing them means rebuilding — often causing cascading changes across all schedule types.
From QGenda Frustration to Finished Schedules
Thrawn's proprietary Scheduling Programming Language produces complete, mathematically optimal schedules from your constraints — not suggestions requiring your intervention. Send us your rotation requirements, ACGME duty hour rules, resident preferences, and vacation requests. We deliver finished Block, Call, Clinic, and Attending schedules ready for your review. No software to learn. No conflicts to untangle.
What You Get Instead of QGenda
Five capabilities that replace rule-based suggestions with mathematically optimal, done-for-you schedules for residency programs.
Managed Service
Review Finished Schedules Instead of Building Them
Unlike QGenda, where your chiefs operate the software and resolve every conflict, Thrawn delivers complete schedules for review. Program directors and chief residents become approvers, not architects. No software training required.
- Done-for-you schedule delivery
- Chiefs review not build
- No software to learn or configure
Compliance
ACGME Compliance Prevented Not Detected
QGenda flags duty hour violations after the schedule is built. Thrawn's optimization engine prevents violations at generation time, so the schedule you receive is already fully compliant before you ever open it.
- Violation prevention at generation time
- 80-hour and shift cap enforcement
- Accreditation audit readiness
Optimization
Block Call Clinic and Attending Optimized Together
QGenda manages schedule types in isolation, creating domino-effect failures when one change ripples across others. Thrawn treats all schedule types as one interconnected system, optimized simultaneously, so changes in one never break another.
- Simultaneous multi-schedule optimization
- Eliminates the domino effect
- One coherent system across all types
Fairness Engine
Mathematically Proven Equity in Every Schedule
Where QGenda relies on rules and human judgment to approximate fairness, Thrawn's engine mathematically balances nights, weekends, holidays, and coveted rotations across all residents. Equity is an output of the optimization, not an aspiration.
- Mathematically balanced assignment distribution
- Removes perception of bias
- Holiday and weekend equity guaranteed
Resident Preferences
Every Preference Factored Into Optimization
Vacation requests, elective choices, and individual scheduling constraints are not manually reconciled after the schedule is built. They are constraints fed directly into the optimization engine, so every finished schedule already reflects resident input.
- Vacation and elective requests integrated
- No manual preference reconciliation
- Resident input without coordinator burden
Frequently Asked Questions
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Thrawn serves 19 departments across 14 hospitals at top-20 academic health systems. See what a finished, optimized schedule looks like for your program.
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