residency scheduling

A Residency Scheduling Problem (RSP) is a tactical scheduling problem that assigns residents to specific training modules and hospitals to ensure adequate training over a 4-6 year planning horizon to acquire the postulated medical skills. There are currently about 8000 residents in training in Austria, and each hospital has several people involved in resident scheduling. These include the curriculum manager, the planners, the doctors and the human resources departments, who manually assign the residents to the individual training modules on a monthly basis, taking into account the numerous requirements of various stakeholders. Some of these requirements relate to elements of fairness, such as the number of months without training, violated preferences and hospital changes, which should be equally balanced across all residents. The goal is to find a feasible schedule for the residents that satisfies all the requirements, taking into account the trade-offs between the technical ...