swap-management

The swap-management skill provides comprehensive support for managing faculty and resident schedule swaps efficiently and safely. It addresses common challenges in healthcare scheduling, such as ensuring compliance with duty hour regulations, maintaining supervision ratios, and avoiding conflicts that could affect patient coverage. By leveraging automated analysis and validation tools, the skill streamlines the process of exchanging shifts, reducing administrative overhead and minimizing human error during schedule adjustments.

This skill includes a range of features to facilitate swap management. It supports one-to-one swaps, absorb shifts, and three-way circular exchanges, ensuring that all swaps meet consent, qualification, and regulatory requirements. The system integrates with auto-matching algorithms and MCP tools to identify compatible swap partners based on criteria like qualification match, hour balance, preference alignment, fairness, and schedule proximity. Mandatory pre- and post-swap validation ensures that no violations are introduced and that coverage resilience remains high. The workflow includes request submission, compatibility analysis, swap validation, execution, and verification, with audit trails and notifications for transparency.

Swap-management is particularly useful for residency program coordinators, department schedulers, and administrators overseeing clinical rotations. It is designed to handle routine swap requests, emergency coverage situations, and policy inquiries while maintaining compliance with institutional and regulatory standards. By automating match finding and validation, it allows scheduling staff to focus on critical oversight tasks rather than manual coordination, improving operational efficiency and fairness across complex shift schedules.