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Weekly round-robin or day-of-week, holiday overrides that always win, print it or export it to Excel as a CSV. It works like a template that fills itself in, using the same rotation resolver that routes Lydoh's live after-hours escalations.
Providers (rotation order)
Overrides (holidays, vacations, swaps)
Overrides always beat the rotation, exactly as in Lydoh's live resolver.
Mon Nov 9
Dr. Patel
Tue Nov 10
Dr. Patel
Wed Nov 11
Dr. Patel
Thu Nov 12
Dr. Patel
Fri Nov 13
Dr. Patel
Sat Nov 14
Dr. Patel
Sun Nov 15
Dr. Patel
Mon Nov 16
Dr. Nguyen
Tue Nov 17
Dr. Nguyen
Wed Nov 18
Dr. Nguyen
Thu Nov 19
Dr. Nguyen
Fri Nov 20
Dr. Nguyen
Sat Nov 21
Dr. Nguyen
Sun Nov 22
Dr. Nguyen
Mon Nov 23
Dr. Rivera
Tue Nov 24
Dr. Rivera
Wed Nov 25
Dr. Rivera
Thu Nov 26
Dr. Rivera
Fri Nov 27
Dr. Rivera
Sat Nov 28
Dr. Rivera
Sun Nov 29
Dr. Rivera
Mon Nov 30
Dr. Patel
Tue Dec 1
Dr. Patel
Wed Dec 2
Dr. Patel
Thu Dec 3
Dr. Patel
Fri Dec 4
Dr. Patel
Sat Dec 5
Dr. Patel
Sun Dec 6
Dr. Patel
Email me this schedule (CSV attached)
Generated by the same rotation resolver that routes Lydoh's live after-hours escalations, so what you print here is exactly what our AI would do with the same settings.
Templates
Most small practices use one of three layouts. Pick the one that matches how your providers already trade nights, then fill it in with the generator above.
Share it the same way every time: print it for the front desk, and give your answering service the same file, so the person they page at night is the person on the paper.
The honest limitation
A printed rotation fixes who is responsible. It doesn't fix the 2am mechanics: someone still has to answer, triage, reach the on-call provider, try the backup when they sleep through it, and write down what happened. Lydoh runs this exact schedule live: it answers every after-hours call, deflects emergencies to 911, lets the patient flag urgency, dials your on-call provider until someone accepts, and logs every attempt with talk time. See how an after-hours answering service uses a rotation like this, how the on-call answering service reaches the provider on it, or what coverage options actually cost.
Two more pieces finish the after-hours setup: what callers hear when you're closed (draft it with the free after-hours greeting generator), and who may judge urgency once a call reaches someone (see telephone triage).
FAQ
Yes. The generator on this page is a free on-call schedule template that fills itself in: enter your providers, pick a weekly or day-of-week rotation, add holiday or vacation overrides, and it lays out every day for up to 13 weeks. Print it, or download the CSV, which opens in Excel or Google Sheets. No signup is needed.
The two patterns that survive contact with real life are a weekly round-robin (each provider takes a full week, trading fairness for longer stretches) and day-of-week assignment (Dr. A always has Mondays, which suits fixed personal schedules). Whichever you pick, the schedule is only as good as its override handling: holidays, vacations, and swaps must beat the rotation, or the calendar is fiction within a month.
Three things, in order: the schedule lives in someone's head or a stale spreadsheet, so the answering service pages the wrong provider; overrides get handled by group text instead of the system of record; and nobody logs who was actually reached at 2am, which matters for both fairness and liability. Fixing the artifact (a current, printed or shared schedule) fixes the first two; logging needs tooling.
Identically. This page runs the same resolver that Lydoh uses on live calls: when an urgent after-hours call comes in, it computes who is on call at that exact moment in your practice's timezone, applies any date overrides first, then dials that provider, cascades to backups if they don't accept, and logs every attempt with timestamps.
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