Operating Room Block Scheduling: Block Allocation, Utilisation, Case Duration Estimates, First-Case Starts, Turnover & Overtime
Manage surgical schedules as an operations analyst. You will allocate blocks of room time to services, measure how well each block is used, estimate case lengths from history to fill a day realistically, track first-case on-time starts and turnovers, cost overtime and release unused time, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
This course covers the administrative side of operating room scheduling in a spreadsheet, with fictional data and no clinical content. You turn a weekly block template into block minutes per service with SUMIFS, measure pooled block utilisation including turnovers, and estimate case lengths per fictional procedure code with MEDIAN and PERCENTILE.INC, rounded up to booking minutes with CEILING. You lay cases into a block, flag overruns and pick the case to move with MINIFS, track first-case on-time starts and turnover times, cost overtime with SUMPRODUCT, apply a release rule with WORKDAY and finish with a utilisation-based allocation for next quarter, rounded with MROUND and shown in a chart.
Lessons
- Block Templates: Rooms, Days, Services & Block Minutes per Week Pro
- Block Utilisation: Case Minutes plus Turnovers ÷ Block Minutes, by Service Pro
- Case Duration Estimates: Median, 80th Percentile & Booking Minutes by Procedure Type Pro
- Filling a Day: Start Times, Planned Minutes, Overrun Flags & Which Case to Move Pro
- First-Case On-Time Starts & Turnover Times by Room Pro
- Overtime: Minutes past Block End, Fictional Overtime Cost & Overtime by Service Pro
- Release Rules: Check Dates with WORKDAY, Release Decisions & Reallocated Hours Pro
- Next Quarter's Allocation: Utilisation-Based Hours, Half-Day Steps & a Chart Pro