Scheduling is one of the most important factors in determining the production, the general flow of your dental practice and the energy level at the end of the day. When your schedule is not properly managed production runs below the practices potential and the end result is the doctor and team members becoming stressed, exhausted and miserable.
Block scheduling is one of single most important factors in your production. Generally, the schedule is created in the beginning stages of the practice and never re designed to fit the doctor's career and lifestyle.
One of the key principles of block scheduling is first create your ideal day. Decide how your day needs to run to achieve your production goals that at the same time will create a pleasant working environment. Determine how many high production cases need to be in your schedule, then how many block for smaller production, where do the blocks for emergency exams go how many block do there need to be for new patient exam etc. There should be time blocked off during each day for every type of procedure you want block on that particular day.
