Many obstacles.

- respect request for certain rotations
- request of vacation months
- balancing teams with upper and lower lever residents
- make sure if the team have a bad resident, there’s a strong one to help instead all a team when bad upper levels leading the way

- try to allow seniors go off at the end of the year on an easier schedule
- Making sure all the residents get certain rotations in for the year.
- if a resident takes a LOA, how do you get their work covered for the time out (this is really difficult)

That’s just the yearly schedule

The monthly schedule for year rotation
- request for off days
- request for electives (if one want to do certain electives make sure seniors get first choice and not make a rotation too crowded)
- team balance (strong and weak residents)
- equal calls
- equal jeopardy

I did it for 86 residents I hated every moment of it 😂

excell. The yearly master schedule was the toughest, took 2 monhts from march (after match day to mid May). It's a 4D chess sudoku puzzle putting it together. I haven't been able to do a sudoku puzzle since, it's pure PTSD. We had 70 categortical and 16 non, it's a wild ride