How to use the call roster
The call roster makes an on-call roster for your MOs, for any period you choose, from their requests.
All names shown are fictional. Pictures and videos come from roster.sg's demos, never from a real roster.
Contents
Sign in and open the demo
About 1 minute. You need: a work or personal email.
One shared demo; Reset starts afresh
- Go to roster.sg and press Sign in.
- Type your email and press Send code.
- Type the six-digit code and press Verify.
- On Choose a tool, pick the call roster's (Demo) tile.
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Any email on a Singapore public healthcare domain works, or a mainstream personal email such as Gmail or Outlook. The code comes by email, and there is no password.
Everyone shares one demo; Reset the demo starts it afresh, so press it when you are done. In the demo, a new sheet always comes filled with 22 fictional MOs and their requests.
Create a request sheet
About 1 minute. You need: the start and end dates, and each group's MO count.
Copy the link, send it round
- On the tool's home, press Create a sheet for a new month.
- Fill in the Period and the Doctor counts by group.
- Press Create sheet.
- When it says The sheet is ready, press Copy link.
A "month" here is any period you set with a start and an end date.
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The Period has a Start date and an End date. While it works it says Making the sheet...
Copy link gives the link to send round; Open sheet lets you look at it first.
Collect the MOs' requests
A few days, outside roster.sg. You need: the link, sent to the MOs.
One sheet, ready to solve
- Each MO types their name in their group's doctor column.
- They type codes on the days they need them.
- Two codes on one day:
AL, NC.
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CR is a call request, NC no call, AL annual leave, then EXAM, PM_OFF, and the others in the sheet's own legend.
Several codes on one day are joined with a comma and a space. Leave and exams block calls on those days.
Solve the period
About 3 minutes. You need: every MO's name filled in.
Its score, requests and the roster
- On the tool's home, press Solve an existing sheet.
- Under Which month's sheet?, pick the sheet.
- Check the Scoring settings.
- Press Solve this sheet. You can leave the page.
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To use a sheet not in the list, press Paste a link instead.
The Scoring settings hold the weights and the three minimum calls per doctor. A 0 turns a setting off.
Once pressed it says Submitted. Solving on a machine, usually 2 to 3 minutes. Come back whenever you like.
The demo allows one solve a minute, and 20 a day for everyone together.
Compare the five rosters and read one
About 3 minutes. You need: a finished solve.
How the score is made up
- The five solutions roster.sg kept shows each roster's score.
- Open one to read The roster.
- Check Requests not granted and Slots left empty.
- How this score is made up compares it with the others.
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Each of the five shows its score, its empty slots and the requests granted.
The roster has the duties down the side and the dates across, with weekends shaded and a legend. Each doctor's month shows every MO's calls and standbys, split by group.
Requests not granted lists them with their dates; Slots left empty lists any duty nobody could take. How this score is made up sets this roster's score beside the other four.
Put the roster in your sheet
About 1 minute. You need: the roster you chose, open.
A new locked tab in your sheet
- Under Put this solution in your sheet, press Export.
- When it is written, press Open the new tab.
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While it works it says Writing the tab... The sheet gets a new locked tab with the roster. Your request tab is never overwritten.
Find a past sheet or solve
About 1 minute. You need: a sheet made before.
- Every sheet is listed, with Open sheet and Solve this one.
- Restore a deleted sheet from Deleted sheets, within 7 days.
- Past solutions lists every solve; Load more shows older.
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Each sheet also has Copy link and Delete. Past solutions lists the newest first, ten at a time.
Questions
Write to hello@roster.sg with a question, or if your department would like to try the call roster. It is free for Singapore public healthcare departments. How sign-in and privacy work.