Validate generated schedules for ACGME compliance, coverage gaps, and operational viability. Use when verifying schedule integrity before deployment or investigating schedule issues.
The schedule-validator skill is designed to rigorously assess residency schedules for compliance, coverage, and operational feasibility. It addresses the critical need to ensure that generated schedules adhere to both prescriptive rules and real-world constraints before deployment. By validating actual assignments against templates and operational standards, it helps prevent staffing gaps, violations of accreditation requirements, and scheduling errors that could disrupt clinical operations.
The skill features a multi-phase validation process that includes structure validation, ACGME compliance checks, operational feasibility assessments, and quality metrics analysis. Structure validation ensures data integrity, coverage completeness, and timeline consistency, while ACGME compliance validation delegates specific rules like duty hour limits and supervision ratios to specialized checks. Operational feasibility examines staffing availability, rotation continuity, and coverage stability. Additionally, it includes alignment checks to identify unapproved divergences between scheduled assignments and prescriptive templates, flagging potential errors or manual overrides that require review.
This skill is useful for residency program administrators, scheduling coordinators, and operational managers who need to verify schedules before deployment or investigate discrepancies. It is typically activated after schedule generation, prior to finalizing new versions, or when assessing the impact of changes and swaps. By providing detailed validation feedback, it supports proactive correction of errors, ensures compliance with regulatory standards, and promotes fair distribution of assignments among residents and staff.
It should be used after generating a schedule, before finalizing a new version, when investigating schedule complaints, during pre-deployment verification, or when assessing the impact of swaps or changes.
ACGME compliance validations are delegated to the acgme-compliance skill, which verifies rules such as the 80-hour limit, 1-in-7 scheduling, supervision ratios, and duty period limits.
The skill requires descriptive schedule data such as half-day assignments and references to residents and rotations. Prescriptive templates may also be used for alignment checks.
Yes, it checks coverage completeness for each day and rotation, flags under-coverage, and evaluates staffing availability and redundancy to ensure operational feasibility.
It can run in parallel with skills like code-review and test-writer, but must serialize with acgme-compliance and safe-schedule-generation. Preferred batch size is 1.
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