Automated Call Scheduling for Anesthesia Groups
Stop building the call schedule by hand.
Dr. Feller used to spend his nights and weekends building the call schedule each month. He hasn't touched the spreadsheet since November 2025.
Don't believe us? We don't blame you. Send your rule, the one you do not think a computer can handle. We will tell you whether Nice Schedule can model it.
We reply within one business day.Current onboarding window: August.
The problem
Your rules are the reason generic scheduling software fails.
So one partner is left to figure it out manually.
The schedule eats their nights and weekends. No matter what they do, someone still complains.
The hard part is not putting names on a calendar. It is accounting for the nuances that keep things fair: post-call rules, weekend patterns, site mix, vacations, pairings, and partner coverage.
The software you have looked at asks you to reduce those rules to checkboxes. It still needs a human babysitter, and tweaks are more work than doing it yourself. You go back to the spreadsheet.
The promise
If we can't automate your call schedule, you don't pay.
Our solver accounts for your rules, nuances, and preferences.
Miss one rule, and one change leads to another.
That is why the pilot starts with rule capture, past schedule import, and a first live schedule your group can approve before we invoice.
How we do it
We model the rules that live in the scheduler's head.
Nice Schedule starts with the solver, not the calendar UI. We capture the rules, import the past schedules, collect the current requests, and generate a draft your group can actually use.
The mobile app is the place clinicians submit requests and view the schedule. Admins get a dedicated dashboard to manage the schedule and run the solver.
No more shared spreadsheets. No scheduling system for your group to configure from scratch.
And maybe the best part? If someone is unhappy, "the computer is to blame."
Proof
Six months of published schedules at Trident Anesthesia.
Trident is the reason Nice Schedule exists.
The Trident solver ensures that contract employees get their shifts, and partners absorb the remainder.
It accounts for specific nuances like post-call cardiac requirements and avoids specific partner pairings on weekends.
It accounts for vacation across the whole year and establishes a glide path, so one physician doesn't feel the squeeze toward the end of the year.
These are just a few of the scheduling nuances a solver can handle.
Since November 2025, Trident has published its call schedule through this process. The April 2026 schedule above is one of those published schedules.
How it works
What the first three weeks look like.
Week one: We listen.
We sit down with the person who owns the schedule today, plus two or three people who know where the friction lives. Post-call rules. Golden weekends. Site mix. Pairing issues. The local rules that never made it into a policy doc. All of it.
Week two: Requests go live.
Your group gets one place, on a phone or desktop, to submit vacation, preferences, and exceptions. We import past schedules so fairness accounting begins from history, not from zero.
Week three: We deliver the first call schedule.
We generate the draft, walk you through the dashboard and revise until the numbers are right. Then you publish one source of truth.
Is this a fit?
We are careful about who we take on.
If you are much smaller, much larger, or need hospital-wide OR scheduling, we will say so on the call and save us both a meeting.
This is a fit if…
- You are an independent call-taking group, usually 14 to 40 clinicians.
- One partner or scheduler owns call, and the job keeps getting harder to hand off.
- You have real constraints: post-call rules, site coverage, subspecialty work, not just a vacation calendar.
- You want the schedule built with you, not another login your group will ignore or software to learn.
Probably not a fit if…
- You want to configure a tool yourself.
- You need a hospital-wide OR scheduling system.
- You are looking for free software.
- Your current process is working fine.
Start with one rule
What rule do you not think a computer can handle?
Send the constraint that makes you skeptical scheduling software can work. We will read it, ask follow-up questions if needed, and tell you directly whether it belongs in a Nice Schedule solver.
If it looks like a fit, we will set up a 20-minute call about your full schedule.
Current onboarding window: August. We only take on two new groups per month so the rule-capture work is done properly.
Or email us directly: [email protected]
Forward this page to the person who is responsible for the schedule.