Resources
Field notes for the person building the call schedule.
Three things I made for the senior resident, the chief, the fellow, or the one partner in the group who got handed the spreadsheet and is now spending every other weekend on it.
How to make a call schedule with AI that doesn’t hallucinate.
A free, step-by-step walkthrough for building a fair anesthesia call scheduler — with AI as the helper and a real constraint solver doing the actual work. Includes the open-source Python solver, sample data, and an agent handoff prompt that lets Claude Code or Codex run the whole thing with you.
Read the walkthrough →Anesthesia call schedule template.
An Excel starting point if you’d rather build the schedule by hand — or if you want a clean place to capture rules, names, and requests before handing them to the solver. Designed around the patterns we see in independent anesthesia groups.
Open the template →How an anesthesia call schedule actually gets built.
The rules every group has that don’t fit on a spreadsheet — post-call rest, partner allocation, weekend fairness, vacation routing, the local exceptions that turn into eight-line emails. Written from inside the work, not above it.
Read the article →More on the way. If there’s a piece you want me to write — the rule you don’t think a computer can handle, the part of your process that always slips — email [email protected] and tell me. I write to questions, not in a vacuum.