A computerised resident medical officer rostering system.
A computerised Resident Medical Officer (RMO) rostering system was developed by the authors over a period of two years to aid in the preparation of yearly and daily rosters for RMOs. The main aim of the system is to save the time required for repetitive rostering activities, such as preparing the weekly rosters and pay sheets. No new philosophies of resident rostering have been introduced and the program simply does more quickly what used to be done under the manual system. As an example, in preparing the weekly rosters and pay sheets, the program does in approximately 10 minutes what used to take about two hours. A secondary bonus of the system is that distribution of the costs to specific cost centres is now possible and it is hoped that this may lead to greater control over the utilisation of this rather expensive resource.
D001315:Australia; D003201:Computers; D006761:Hospitals; D007256:Information Systems; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008331:Management Information Systems; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000379:methods*