Guides, comparisons and stories on residency scheduling
How-to guides for chiefs and coordinators, side-by-side looks at scheduling software, case studies from programs like Boston Children’s and UVA, and Chiefly updates.
Boston Children’s signs a multi-year deal with Chiefly after automating its block schedule
The Boston Combined Residency Program, with 188 residents across two hospital systems, faced escalating scheduling complexity under new ACGME requirements and outdated tools that risked missed deadlines. Partnering with Chiefly, the program generated a fully compliant block schedule within a week.
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From overwhelmed to empowered: how UVA Pediatrics chiefs reclaimed 3 months of time
The UVA Pediatrics Residency Program faced shifting ACGME requirements and a spreadsheet-based system that consumed hundreds of chief resident hours. Chiefly streamlined block scheduling in just 1.5 weeks, with real-time visibility into compliance, staffing, and resident preferences.
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QGenda alternatives for residency programs: Chiefly vs QGenda
Chiefly is built only for residency programs, as both scheduling software and a service: our team loads your rules, and Chiefly generates the block, daily, clinic and call schedules as one integrated system and re-runs them as things change. QGenda is enterprise workforce software for physicians and staff. Here is how they compare on setup, scope and ACGME rules.
Read the comparisonResidency block schedule software: build the rotation schedule from your rules
Chiefly builds the annual residency block schedule from your program’s rules, re-runs it around leave and off-cycle residents, tracks each resident’s graduation requirements, and rolls everything into next year. Here is how it works and what programs have seen.
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