Assign a specialty to a MD

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Estephe DLDL asked Oct 15, '18 Matthew Gillespie answered Oct 17, '18

Assign a specialty to a MD

Hello,

I am currently working on a model of an hospital. I'm simulating operating rooms, and I would like to assign a specialty to each MD I have, so that when a patient comes in, he has to do a particular operation which requires a particular specialty. I don't know how I can assign this specialty to my MDs but also to the patients that come in, so that the good doctor comes and not another one.

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FlexSim HC (other - please specify)

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FlexSim 18.1.1

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Estephe DLDL commented · Oct 15, 2018 at 01:48 PM

Moreover I have other problems, I don't know why my OR is not in an processing state or even in an idle state when something is happening. So I can't know if it really works or not...

Also I don't know why when I run my model only one patient comes in and I don't have any other during the simulation.

I let my model so you can see what is not working
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Answer 1 · 2018-10-17T17:35:33Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Oct 17, '18

Assigning staff specialties

The easiest way to do this is to create separate groups for the different specialties. So if you want certain doctors to be Urologists, you should make a new group, name it Urologists, set it's parent group to be Staff, and then add the doctors you want to that group. I would also remove those doctors from their other group (unless you want them to be considered members of both groups). Then in the model, if you determine that the patient specifically needs a Urologist, you should acquire a staff member from the Urologists group.

Only one patient arrival

In your Patient Arrivals process flow you have a Scheduled Source activity that only has one arrival schedule. You can add more scheduled arrivals in the properties of that activity, or you could use one of the other source activities if you want a different arrival style. For example, the Inter-arrival time source activity creates a stream of tokens, one per interval.

OR states

Yes, states on Location objects haven't yet been implemented. The people module objects are still under development and won't have states until at least FlexSim 19.0. You can set the states yourself by using the Object.setState() method. Or you could switch to FlexSim HC as Clair offered here, https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/57093/model-of-an-operating-room.html.

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