Clinic Resources

When setting up individual schedules in the clinic, we refer to practitioners, a term which includes providers (doctor) and clinicians (nurse, MA). When you add a practitioner to the Appointment Calendar, you create a column for that practitioner's appointments.

The purpose of the Appointment Calendar is to help you manage the clinics time, and for some clinics, scheduling doctors and nurses is not the best way. Think more broadly of clinic "resources":

• A resource might be a piece of equipment such as the audio booth.

• When providers have irregular schedules that change a lot, it might be easiest to schedule not by name, but by "virtual practitioners" such as Physician 1 and Physician 2.

• If you provide a very time consuming service such as a fire fighter's physical, you might have a column just for that activity to make sure that only a limited number get scheduled each day or week.

• Going a step further, some clinics have schedule columns only for activities: Physicals, Vaccinations, Workers Comp Follow-up, etc.

Many clinics use a combination of the above. Remember that the scheduler is designed to manage your clinic, not patients. Surges and lulls may be inevitable in a clinic which handles injuries, but scheduling as many appointments as possible can even out the flows. Determine the approach that works best for you.

However you schedule, every resource must be entered in the clinician or provider table before it can be added to the calendar.