Emergency medicine schedules, optimized in minutes —
built to protect circadian rhythm
Press one button and get a fair, fully optimized schedule — built around everyone's requests and time off, with shifts rotating forward the way the body clock likes. And the finished schedule lives here too: the whole roster views it live, syncs personal calendars, and trades shifts, with the right people notified whenever anything changes.
ACGME-safe resident blocks
Duty-hour rules, fairness within each PGY class, and resident requests — all handled at once.
Attending & community ED shifts
Nights and weekends shared fairly, real rest between shifts, and easy swaps across the group.
3 months free for new programs & groups · full setup included · no card to start
Everything scheduling, in one place
Build the schedule autonomously, publish it, and handle everything that follows — requests, swaps, time off, coverage changes — in one place, instead of a spreadsheet, an inbox, and a group chat.
Optimal, not just filled
Instead of stopping at the first schedule that works, the scheduler compares a huge number of possibilities and keeps the best one it finds.
ACGME rules enforced, every time
Duty-hour limits, required days off, and rest between shifts are checked on every schedule and every swap — one that breaks the rules can't be published.
Circadian protection
Shifts rotate forward through the day, and a run of nights is followed by real time off to recover.
Balanced across the class
Nights, weekends, and locations are counted and balanced fairly across the whole year and within each PGY class.
Per-resident shift targets
Each resident's shift target — and their limits on nights, weekends, and consecutive days — is respected, right down to the individual.
Protected educational time
Designate your didactic conferences and educational sessions, and the scheduler keeps them clear of clinical shifts.
Custom rules, plain English
Add your own program policies — interns never alone on nights, two weekend shifts a block at most, golden weekends kept clear — and every schedule follows them.
Requests & time off
Days off, PTO, and shift preferences come in through the app — approved from one inbox instead of scattered emails, and then automatically honored on the generated schedule.
Residents run their own swaps
Residents trade shifts on their own, with scheduler approval built in. Every trade is automatically checked against the ACGME rules — one that breaks them can't go through.
Alive after you publish
Everyone sees the live schedule, which also automatically syncs to calendar apps, with notifications at time of update.
Every schedule graded — every resident scored
The schedule earns a quality grade — request honoring, rest, fairness, circadian rhythm — and each resident gets an individual wellbeing score, so you can know each schedule line is ideal before it publishes.
Med student rotations built in
Rotations generate in a few clicks. Students automatically scheduled alongside EM residents, kept inside the same protective duty-hour limits, and run on each student's own dates — independent of your residency blocks.
Circadian science, built into every schedule
Shift work disrupts the circadian rhythms that govern sleep, hormones, metabolism, and mood — and the evidence on what that does to clinicians is not subtle.
increase in serious medical errors by fatigued interns on traditional long-hour schedules.4,5
the WHO / IARC classification of night-shift work — a probable human carcinogen.1
day → evening → night rotation eases circadian adaptation versus backward flips.7
Five protections in every schedule
- 1Shifts rotate forward through the day — morning to swing to night, never yanked backward.
- 2Consecutive nights are limited and spread evenly across the team.
- 3Genuine rest between shifts, with enough time to actually recover.
- 4Nights, weekends, and the unpopular shifts are counted, so the same people don't always get stuck with them.
- 5The rules keep holding after publish — every swap and change is re-checked.
Every schedule earns a wellbeing score — and so does every individual on it, measuring honored requests and preferences, real rest, consistent shift patterns, and forward rotation. You can see the human cost of a schedule, person by person, before you publish it.
Read the science & full referencesThe body clock drifts later far more easily than earlier — so shifts rotate forward through the day, the direction your circadian system tolerates, and avoid the backward flips that leave people exhausted.
After a run of late shifts, we schedule enough days off in a row for the body clock to reset — never jumping straight from a late shift back onto days.
Emergency Medicine has its own duty-hour rules. We enforce every one.
EM's limits are stricter than other specialties' — and they don't permit the weekly averaging other programs lean on. Every one of them is built into the scheduler, so a schedule that breaks a rule can't be built or published. And the rules keep holding through every swap.
The rules in full, with sourcesFrom roster to published schedule in one sitting
And after you publish, the schedule stays alive — requests, swaps, and coverage changes are checked automatically, and every approved change updates everyone's schedule instantly.
Set your rules once
Add your team, shifts, coverage minimums, and individual or program level preferences.
Build the schedule
One click. The scheduler compares many possible schedules and keeps the best one it finds, within minutes.
Review & publish
Read the analysis, tweak by hand if you like, then publish — everyone gets the live schedule, calendar feeds, and ability to swap instantly.
One flat price, by the size of your team
Every plan is the whole product — unlimited schedules, requests and swaps, schedule analysis, hand-editing, and support. Pick your product, then the tier that matches your size — billed month to month, no annual commitment, no per-shift fees.
- Unlimited schedule generation
- Full ACGME & wellness safeguards
- Schedule analysis & wellbeing score
- All-in-one hub: requests, swaps & calendar feeds
- Custom configuration & dedicated onboarding
- Priority support & ongoing improvements
Every new program and group starts with 3 months free — full setup included, no card required.
Your next schedule could be solved before your coffee's cold.
New programs and groups get 3 months free — full setup and onboarding included, with the whole team on the platform from day one. Tell us about your team and we'll get you started.
- 3 months free — no credit card to start
- Flat monthly pricing, cancel anytime
- Setup, configuration & onboarding included
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