Scheduling for Small Residency Programs That Works

Thrawn is designed to serve residency and fellowship programs regardless of size. Small programs often benefit most from the managed service model because they lack dedicated scheduling staff. Thrawn's specialists handle all configuration and schedule-building, meaning a single chief resident or coordinator does not need to carry the entire scheduling workload alone.

Thrawn's Scheduling Programming Language (SPL) enforces ACGME duty hour rules — including the 80-hour weekly limit, shift caps, and required rest periods — at the moment each schedule is generated. Violations are prevented before the schedule is ever published, not flagged afterward. This is particularly valuable for small programs where there is no dedicated compliance officer to audit schedules manually.

Thrawn's onboarding process begins with scheduling specialists working directly with your program to capture all constraints, rules, and preferences. The timeline depends on your program's complexity and the scheduling period involved. Programs do not receive partial drafts to fix — they receive finished schedules for review and approval.

Thrawn delivers Block, Call, Clinic, and Attending schedules — all optimized simultaneously as one interconnected system. This cross-schedule approach means a change in one schedule type does not create conflicts in another, which is a common pain point for small programs managing multiple schedule types with limited staff.

Tools like Amion display or assist with schedules but still require your team to build them manually. Intrigma uses a rule-based engine that generates suggestions requiring human intervention to resolve conflicts. Thrawn is a done-for-you managed service: your program sends its constraints and receives finished, mathematically optimal schedules. There is no software for your team to operate or configure.