Using Mathematical Programming to Schedule Medical Residents
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This paper presents our experience in using mathematical programming techniques to develop an oncall schedule for medical residents. We present models, solution techniques, and computational results from a real-world problem at Boston University School of Medicine. In addition, we discuss key challenges encountered in this project and how they shaped the research process. We focus primarily on two issues: 1) the critical nature of collaboration between the operations researchers and the healthcare practitioners throughout the research process, not just in the initial stages of problem definition; and 2) the difficulties encountered in defining a quantifiable objective function. We believe that both of these issues appear in many other healthcare applications of operations research as well.
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