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Scheduling for your practice

Medical practice scheduling software in which consultation hours, early and late duty and split shifts are shift types of their own. As you assign, medishift checks rest time, double bookings and absences.

  • Custom shift types for consultations, on-call and split shifts
  • Working areas such as reception, lab and treatment room
  • A shift can be assigned to a treating practitioner as well
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Weekly schedule view in medishift with shifts per employee and one uncovered shift

More than 100 practices already trust medishift

  • Hausarzt Dortmund – Dr. Kara & Kollegen
  • Klüt Praxis
  • Hafenstadt Praxis
  • Hausarztpraxis Wengedorff
  • MVZ – Ihre Zahnärzte im Norden
  • Mühlendamm Zahnarztpraxis

From consultation hours to cover

  1. Step 01 · Areas

    Reception, lab and treatment planned apart

    You create the working areas of your practice and plan shifts into them. The plan then says not only who is in, but where.

    • Every area carries its own shifts and its own staffing
    • In the team's plan the area sits next to the time

  2. Step 02 · Shift types

    A consultation is not a standard shift

    Morning and afternoon consultations, early and late duty, split shifts and on-call are shift types you define with hours of their own. A recurring week applies as a template.

    • Own hours, colour and label per duty
    • Weekly templates fill the recurring part of the plan

  3. Step 03 · Checks

    Rest time reports itself as you assign

    Assign a shift that breaks the minimum rest time, collides with an absence or books someone twice, and medishift says so straight away. You find out while you plan, not on the morning reception stands empty.

    • Rest time, double bookings and absences are checked together
    • Stated unavailabilities are counted in

  4. Step 04 · Team

    Assistants, apprentices and part-timers kept apart

    Medical practice staff management starts at the person: each one carries their own weekly and daily target hours, so part-timers hold different values from full-timers. Your staff see their plan in the mobile app and submit requests there.

    • Target hours per person instead of one rule for everyone
    • Open duties can be picked up by the team itself

  5. Step 05 · Absence

    A sudden drop-out has a procedure

    You record the absence and start a replacement request. medishift works out who is available and qualified, and where a double booking or a contract overrun would arise.

    • Only people who could really take the shift are offered
    • Whoever cannot is listed with the reason

Before and after

Without a digital plan in the practice

  • The plan hangs in the back office until someone overwrites it.
  • Consultations, lab and reception sit in the same column.
  • A broken rest period only comes to light afterwards.
  • When someone drops out, a person works down the phone list.
  • Anyone who wants to know their shift rings the practice.

With scheduling from medishift

  • One state, visible to leadership and team, on every device.
  • Every working area has staffing of its own.
  • Rest time and double bookings report themselves as you assign.
  • The replacement request shows who can genuinely step in.
  • Everyone sees their own shifts in the app.
See the view from the app

Who is this for?

  • General practices

    Covering consultations, reception and lab with a small team, without a gap surfacing on the morning itself.

  • Specialist practices

    Treatment rooms and equipment tie staff to fixed times, and not everyone can take on every area.

  • Group practices

    Several practitioners, one team: a shift can also be assigned to the doctor it is planned for.

  • Clinics and several sites

    Whoever covers at two sites appears in both plans and still counts as one person.

The team sees shift, time and practitioner

Your staff's plan carries the name of the consultation, the doctor it was planned for and the site, not just the time. Days off sit in it as their own row.

  • Consultation morning is the shift's name, not a code.
  • The practitioner can be assigned to a shift as well.
  • Still planning in a spreadsheet start from our free template and move over later.
To the free schedule template
My schedule in the medishift app with consultations, times, the assigned practitioner and the site

Sick note and cover in one go

Tell Kira that someone is out for the week. She records the absence, takes that person out of their shifts and looks for cover for all the freed shifts at once. Every change is put to you as a card, and you confirm it.

  • Who can comes with where their hours would stand after.
  • Anyone a practice rule rules out is not offered at all.
  • If nobody is found Kira says so, rather than letting the day drop.
Kira in the medishift app chat recording a sick note

Leave and drop-outs live in the same plan

An approved absence leaves a visible gap in the week and is checked again at the next assignment. Half days count as 0.5.

  • Overlaps report themselves as you enter them.
  • Public holidays come from the import, per location.
  • The vacation account calculates itself from confirmed days.
To the vacation planner
Absences with vacation days, vacation account and status in medishift

Let us show you the schedule in 30 minutes

We will show you how consultation hours, working areas and cover work together. Pick a slot, we will take care of the rest.

  • 30 minutes
  • Via Google Meet
  • Free and without obligation

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Frequently asked questions about scheduling in a medical practice

You create working areas such as reception, lab or treatment room and plan shifts into them. Early, late and split shifts get their own shift times.

Yes. Each person carries their own weekly and daily target hours, so part-timers hold different values from full-timers. The check as you assign works with that too.

You mark the absence and start a replacement request. medishift checks who is available and qualified and where conflicts would arise. Colleagues can then pick the shift up themselves.

Yes. Alongside the person working it, a shift carries the practitioner it is planned for, with a release list of who may be scheduled for whom.

Yes. Several locations live in one account, each with its own working areas and plan. Someone working at two sites stays one person, and the conflict check sees both shifts.

For teams of up to ten employees medishift is free forever, including the schedule, absences and the mobile app. You do not need payment details.