Participants: Amy Cohn, PhD; Ed O’Brien, MD; Hilary Haftel MD; Young-Chae Hong; Billy Pozehl; Zac VerSchure; Ji Wang; Peter Mayoros
Project Contact: Amy Cohn, [email protected]
Project Synopsis: When scheduling medical residents, both patient care needs and educational training needs must be met. The resulting large number of rules and preferences make it difficult to manually construct even a feasible schedule, let alone a schedule of high quality. Through collaboration between CHEPS and the pediatric residency program, we develop and implement optimization-based decision support tools to assist in the construction of the annual block schedule and the monthly emergency department shift schedules. The result is not only a dramatic reduction in the time required by the Chief Resident to construct these schedules, but a significant improvement in quality as well, including greater equity across residents and fewer cancelled continuity clinics.
Papers, Presentations, & Posters:
Papers
- Cohn, Amy. “Constructing Pareto-Optimal Residency Call Schedules.” (2007). 2nd International Symposium on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics: BMIC 2008, pp. 156 – 161, June 2008, Orlando, FL.
- Perelstein, Elizabeth, Ariella Rose, Young-Chae Hong, Amy Cohn, and Micah Long. “Innovation to Improve GME: Automation Increases Scheduling Efficiency and Improves Schedule Quality for Medical Residents.” Under Review with Academic Medicine
Presentations
- Pareto Optimality in Pediatric Residency Shift Scheduling, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Sessions, June 2015
- Challenges and Opportunities in Scheduling Healthcare Providers, Dartmouth College, May 2015
- Challenges and Opportunities in Scheduling Healthcare Providers, University of Cincinnati, March 2015
- Challenges and Opportunities in Scheduling Healthcare Providers, University of Toronto, January 2015
- Shift Scheduling in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2014
- Block Scheduling for a Pediatric Residency Program, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2014
- Shift Scheduling in a Pediatric Emergency Department and Implications for Beyond, Mayo Clinic Seminar, October 2014
- Block Scheduling for a Pediatric Residency Program, INFORMS Regional Conference, October 2014
- Pediatric Emergency Department Scheduling, Summer Research Presentation, September 2014
- Implementing a Residency Scheduling Program at the University of Michigan Pediatric Emergency Department, IFORS, July 2014
- Using Integer Programming to Improve the Scheduling of Medical Residents, ISERC Conference, May 2014
- Using Industrial Engineering and Other Tools to Improve Healthcare Delivery: Case Studies, DTU Seminar, April 2014
- Using Industrial Engineering and Other Tools to Improve Healthcare Delivery: Case Studies, Northeastern Seminar, April 2014
- Technical Tools for Improving Health Care Delivery: Case Studies and Practical Issues, Seminar at WPI, March 2014
- Using OR to Improve Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities, University of Michigan Medical School, November 2013
- An effective way to generate multiple solutions for scheduling medical residents, INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2013
- Using Industrial Engineering and Other Tools to Improve Healthcare: Two Case Studies, NC State University Seminar, October 2013
- Using Mathematical Programming to Improve Scheduling for Medical Residents, INFORMS Healthcare Conference, June 2013
- Using OR to Improve Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities, Analytics Retreat, May 2013
- Applications of Operations Research in Healthcare at the University of Michigan Health System, Epstein Institute Seminar Series at University of Southern California, March 2013
- Optimization-Based Tools For Residency Scheduling, INFORMS, October 2012
- Challenges and Opportunities in Applying OR/MS Tools to Improve Healthcare Delivery, INFORMS Round Table, October 2012
- Using Optimization Techniques to Improve Residency Scheduling in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic SE/OR Seminar Series, June 2012
- Scheduling Problems in Medical Residency, CHEAR Seminar Series, December 2011
Posters
- Using Optimization and Simulation to Build Better Block and Monthly Shift Schedules, Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety Symposium, September 2014
- Automated Shift Scheduling Improves Schedule Quality for Residents in a Pediatric Emergency Department, SHS, February 2014
- Automated Shift Scheduling Improves Schedule Quality for Residents in a Pediatric Emergency Department, Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety Symposium, November 2013
- Optimization-Based Shift Scheduling Improves Schedule Quality for Residents in a Pediatric Emergency Department, PRS Medical Education Day, June 2013
- Medical Resident Scheduling using Multi-Criteria Optimization Models, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2011
Acknowledgements: We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of The Bonder Foundation, The Doctors Company Foundation,the University of Michigan Department of Pediatrics, and the U of M College of Engineering SURE Program. We also thank all prior Chiefs and CHEPS students who have contributed to this project.