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From: extel@quagga.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard Lisse)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: scheduling software (people to assignments)
Summary: How can I schedule rotating interns to departments
Keywords: hospital schedule residents intern
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.114219.15187@quagga.ru.ac.za>
Date: 5 Feb 91 11:42:19 GMT
Organization: Katatura State Hospital, Windhoek, Namibia
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Hi,

I would like to find out if the following has already been programmed:

I need to schedule a number of Interns (young doctors :-)) to the
different departments of a given hospital (ours, of course :-)).

They usually do a year with us and rotate between two and six months
through different departments. The do those rotations continuous so
one can not for example schedule them one month Pediatrics in January
and one in March but must either give them Jan/Feb or Feb/March
instead.

There are seniorities to be observed (some start half a year eralier
and then should get preference if necessary and there are Head of
Departments' Choices which take absolute precedence ('Intern A must
stay with us from Jan to June!')

A screen orientated input would be nice but can be easily written
locally if not present.

Ideally one should be able to use up to 300 persons so if it worked
well one could use it for Nurses (four different categories rotating
every 2 to 6 months) as well.

It should be written in C (Xenix, System 5 and Turbo-C) or
Turbo-Pascal and/or an EXEcutable for MS-DOS.

The output should lend itself to manipulation with AWK so one can
incorporate it into LaTeX.


Of course it should be free/Public Domaine/Shareware or very cheap.
(Namibia is a developing country :-))


Too tall an order, I hope not.

-- 
Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse, Katatura State Hospital
Private Bag 13260
Windhoek
Namibia