Build your on-call schedule in a minute

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.