Resources for FMG managers
Synchro Blog.
Practical guides for managers, lead physicians and FMG teams in Quebec. Team management, Law 25 compliance, scheduling software comparisons.
Fairness
How to distribute on-call shifts fairly in a medical team
The person who always says yes shows up nowhere in your numbers. The few written lines that settle the on-call argument for good.
10 minutes · 2026-09-14
Rollout
Rolling out new software in an FMG in 30 days
A four-week plan built around the scheduling period cycle, and the three numbers that settle it at day 30.
8 minutes · 2026-09-13
Open source
Is there an open source medical scheduling software?
What really exists, the three abandoned team scheduling projects with their dates, and what free actually means.
8 minutes · 2026-09-13
Operations research
Medical scheduling is an operations research problem
The formal name of the problem, its complexity, and a complete CP-SAT model distributing on-call shifts for 12 physicians.
10 minutes · 2026-09-08
Scheduling
The 27 real constraints in an FMG schedule
Twenty-seven constraints named one by one, with their source. Only five are decided inside your clinic.
10 minutes · 2026-09-08
Team management
Scheduling and staff retention in an FMG
The five signals that show up in the grid before someone resigns, and what your staff's employment status changes about it.
7 minutes · 2026-09-07
No-code tools
Airtable, Notion and no-code for clinic scheduling
How far these tools get with a clinic schedule, and the exact line where they give way.
9 minutes · 2026-09-06
Artificial intelligence
I asked ChatGPT to build my FMG schedule
Two FMG weeks handed to a general-purpose assistant: where the schedule breaks, and why it insists everything is compliant.
9 minutes · 2026-09-04
Comparison
Best scheduling software for a Quebec FMG: 7 tools compared in 2026
Seven tools, what each covers in an FMG, its published price and which team it suits.
9 minutes · 2026-09-02
Team management
8 moments that wreck your FMG schedule
The eight situations where the schedule breaks, what actually happens when they hit, and what to change.
8 minutes · 2026-08-19
Choosing a tool
FMG schedule management: which tool to choose
Six families of tools, eight evaluation criteria and a method to test before you sign.
10 minutes · 2026-08-18
Digital transition
Why Excel is not enough for FMG scheduling
What you lose with Excel: time, fairness, continuity, security. Detailed ROI calculation.
7 minutes · 2026-04-20
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