Master Physician Scheduling Problem

• Main Authors: GUNAWAN, Aldy, LAU, Hoong Chuin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: scheduling; optimization; health service; master physician scheduling and rostering problem; mathematical programming; preferences; Computer Sciences; Health and Medical Administration; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1605; http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jors.2012.48
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We study a real-world problem arising from the operations of a hospital service provider, which we term the master physician scheduling problem. It is a planning problem of assigning physicians’ full range of day-to-day duties (including surgery, clinics, scopes, calls, administration) to the define...