Physician scheduling

Build physician rosters around your rules.

PlanMyRounds is physician scheduling software for hospitals and hospitalist groups. It creates, reviews and manages duty rosters from your coverage, availability, scheduling rules and workload limits.

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Free for up to 10 doctors. No credit card.

PlanMyRounds physician duty roster calendar for a hospital department

One system for the whole roster cycle

PlanMyRounds is used by 600+ doctors across 10+ hospitals in multiple countries and saves 30+ hours per doctor each month. Build with Auto Mode, the Scheduling Agent, the Rules Engine and the Fairness Engine. Run it with leave, swaps and roster management. Connect it to doctors' phones and your hospital systems.

Start with the way your department works

PlanMyRounds builds every roster from the rules your department already follows. Set them once and they apply to every cycle.

  • Coverage requirements per shift
  • Doctor availability
  • Leave and preferences
  • Working-hour limits
  • Rest requirements, including after night duty

See every rule the Rules Engine supports

PlanMyRounds shift configuration and scheduling rules for a MICU duty plan

Generate a roster without assigning every duty by hand

Auto Mode fills every required shift with eligible doctors, applies approved leave and enforces every hard rule. Coverage gaps are flagged for review, never filled by breaking a rule.

How Auto Mode builds the roster

A generated PlanMyRounds duty plan in the monthly calendar view

See workload and fairness before you publish

Every draft shows each doctor's load, so you can check the roster is balanced before anyone sees it.

  • Total hours
  • Number of duties
  • Day and night distribution
  • Coverage
  • Conflicts

How the Fairness Engine balances duties

PlanMyRounds roster calendar with day and night shifts for each doctor

Keep managing the roster after it is published

Changes after publishing go through the same rules as the original roster, and everyone sees the update.

  • Shift swaps
  • Replacements
  • Leave changes
  • Roster edits

How shift swaps are checked

PlanMyRounds mobile app showing swap options sorted by best match

How PlanMyRounds builds a roster

  1. Step 1

    Set your rules

    Shift types, doctors per shift, seniority mix, rest windows and hour limits.

  2. Step 2

    Collect availability

    Doctors submit leave and availability in the app. Admins approve or override.

  3. Step 3

    Generate

    The engine builds the roster, enforces every hard rule and balances workload.

  4. Step 4

    Review and publish

    Check the draft, edit if needed, publish. Doctors are notified.

Who it is for

Hospitalist groups, hospital departments and ICUs that want fair, rule-based rosters without enterprise contracts. PlanMyRounds is free for up to 10 doctors, $70 per month flat for up to 50 doctors, and $3 per doctor per month for teams of 51+ doctors (from $153 per month). Yearly billing saves up to 13%. See pricing

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Physician scheduling software FAQ

What is physician scheduling software?
Physician scheduling software builds and manages duty rosters for doctors. It takes coverage requirements, leave, availability and scheduling rules as inputs, generates a roster that satisfies them, and handles changes such as swaps after the roster is published. PlanMyRounds is physician scheduling software for hospitals and hospitalist groups.
What is the best physician scheduling software?
It depends on the size of the organization and the budget. Large health systems often choose enterprise workforce platforms such as QGenda. Hospitalist groups and hospital departments that want fair, rule-based rosters with flat pricing and no contract choose PlanMyRounds, which is free for up to 10 doctors and $70 per month flat for up to 50 doctors.
How does PlanMyRounds make schedules fair?
PlanMyRounds balances total hours, spreads nights and other high-burden shifts evenly, avoids clustering undesirable shifts, and adjusts for workload in past rosters. Fairness is optimized only after every hard rule, such as coverage, leave and rest, is met.
How long does it take to set up?
Most teams enter their doctors, shift types and rules and generate their first roster in minutes. No IT integration is needed to start. HR, leave and EHR integrations are optional.
Can doctors use PlanMyRounds on their phones?
Yes. PlanMyRounds runs in any web browser and has native iOS and Android apps where doctors see their duties, submit leave and availability, and request swaps. Duties can also sync to a personal Google or Outlook calendar.
Does PlanMyRounds replace Excel duty rosters?
Yes. PlanMyRounds replaces spreadsheet and WhatsApp rosters with one live schedule that is checked against your rules, tracks fairness, and keeps an audit trail of every change and swap.
What does PlanMyRounds not do?
PlanMyRounds focuses only on doctor duty scheduling. It does not provide payroll, EMR or EHR functionality, patient records, billing, or a full HR suite.

Your roster, your rules.

Free for up to 10 doctors. No credit card, no contract.

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