SchedulingWiz alternative built for GME programs

SchedulingWiz is a self-serve scheduling tool that assists users in building schedules but still requires significant manual effort to resolve conflicts, balance fairness, and ensure compliance. Thrawn operates as a fully managed service powered by a proprietary mathematical optimization engine. Programs send their constraints and receive finished, ACGME-compliant schedules. There is no software to operate, no conflicts to resolve manually, and no human guesswork involved in the final output.

No technical migration is required. Thrawn's managed onboarding process has scheduling specialists work directly with your program to capture your rules, rotation requirements, resident preferences, and ACGME constraints. You do not transfer data between software platforms — you provide your program's parameters and Thrawn handles the rest. The onboarding process is managed entirely by Thrawn's team.

Yes. SchedulingWiz and most rule-based tools detect ACGME duty hour violations after a schedule draft is created, requiring manual corrections. Thrawn's Scheduling Programming Language prevents violations at the point of generation. Every schedule delivered to your program already satisfies ACGME duty hour requirements, including the 80-hour weekly limit, shift caps, and required rest periods.

Thrawn produces Block, Call, Clinic, and Attending schedules for residency and fellowship programs. Importantly, these four schedule types are optimized simultaneously as one interconnected system — not in isolation. This eliminates the cascading conflicts that occur when changes to one schedule type break the others, a limitation common in self-serve tools like SchedulingWiz.

Thrawn is built for residency and fellowship programs at academic medical centers that need complete, ACGME-compliant schedules without the manual workload. It is particularly well suited for programs managing complex rotation requirements, multiple schedule types, or frequent schedule disruptions. Thrawn currently serves 19 departments across 14 hospitals at multiple top-20 academic health systems.