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.
On-call
Gaps in on-call coverage: where they come from and how to prevent them
A sick call at noon on Friday, leave approved without checking call, a swap nobody recorded. Where gaps come from, and how to organize: leave, swaps, escalation chain.
7 minutes · 2026-10-29
Residency
Chief resident handover: passing on the call schedule without losing everything
Exceptions with their end date, the year's running count, the known calendar, the file explained and the contacts. The checklist for the outgoing chief resident and for the one arriving.
8 minutes · 2026-10-26
Residency
How to build the on-call schedule for a resident team
Each share prorated, weekends first, the count carried from one block to the next. Over two four-week blocks, with two off-service residents.
9 minutes · 2026-10-21
Hospital
How to build a hospital department's on-call schedule: a step-by-step method
Count the shifts, work out each share, place weekends before nights. The seven steps, on a worked two-month example.
9 minutes · 2026-10-18
Hospital
Best on-call scheduling software for a Quebec hospital department: 8 tools compared in 2026
Petal, Mesh AI, MetricAid, the US products and Synchro: what each generates for a hospital department, in which language and at what price.
10 minutes · 2026-10-18
Team management
Nurse and nurse practitioner scheduling in an FMG: who decides, and how to build it
Assigned nurse, nurse hired by the FMG, IPSPL: three statuses, three authorities over the schedule, and what ties them to the physicians'.
8 minutes · 2026-10-13
Planning
Holiday schedule in an FMG: how to build it without a fight
Forty-four hours over six days, two holidays on a Friday, and a team that all wants the same week. The rotation that settles Christmas for three years.
8 minutes · 2026-10-12
Coverage
On-call shift replacement in an FMG: escaping the phone cascade
The phone cascade is not the only option. What a good on-call replacement process needs, and how to write it in one meeting.
8 minutes · 2026-09-24
Hospital
Hospital department on-call schedule: what differs from an FMG's
The department head builds the schedule under the CMDP, not the manager alone. What really changes versus an FMG, and how to build one.
8 minutes · 2026-09-23
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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