Shared Service Schedule

Evidence Base:

"Continuity of care as measured by the Continuity of Attending Physician Index increased by 9% with the shared schedule. Annually, the shared service schedule was predicted to increase free weekends by 3.4 full weekends and 1.3 weekends with either Saturday or Sunday off. Full weeks without clinical obligations increased by 4 weeks. "(Geva et al., 2017)

Relevance To Canadian Context:

This intervention is clearly relevant to Canadian context given the heavy workloads experienced by physicians in Canada.

Other Important Information:

It doesn't require training. It seems there are no implenetation barriers. Commenting on reduced burnout as one of the benefits of this intervention, authors state:" Because all off-service weekends and more off-service weeks would be free of clinical duties, we believe the Shared Service schedule could reduce physician burnout."