Physician scheduling using goal programming-an application to a large hospital in Saudi Arabia

摘要

This paper proposes a goal programming model that provides Physician schedules with improved efficiency and staff satisfaction at an Emergency Department. Monthly schedules are currently manually produced by one physician using an Excel sheet. He is spending one entire week each month to build a schedule for physicians. The proposed model takes into account numerous constraints and goals. A comparison between the hospital and the proposed schedules shows major outperformance of the proposed one.