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How to export your ShiftAdmin schedule to a calendar (iCal / webcal link)
ShiftAdmin can give you a private calendar link (it starts with webcal:// or https://). Add that link to your phone's calendar and your shifts stay up to date on their own. Paste the same link into DutyHourCheck to check your schedule against ACGME duty-hour rules.
Find your ShiftAdmin calendar link
- Sign in at shiftadmin.com and open My Schedule.
- Click "Subscribe to My Schedule".
- Time zone: pick UTC (ShiftAdmin recommends it). End times: pick Normal, not "Stop at Midnight", or overnight shifts get cut in two.
- Copy the webcal:// link it shows and paste it here.
Vacation days and day notes are not in the ShiftAdmin feed.
🔑 The link is private to you. Anyone who has it can see your schedule.
Add it to your calendar app
- Google Calendar (on a computer): Other calendars, then the + button, then From URL. Paste the link (change
webcal://tohttps://if Google rejects it). - Apple Calendar (iPhone): Settings, Calendar, Accounts, Add Account, Other, Add Subscribed Calendar. Paste the link.
- Outlook (on the web): Add calendar, then Subscribe from web. Paste the link.
Subscribed calendars refresh on the calendar app's own schedule, which can be several hours. Check ShiftAdmin itself before a shift swap.
Check it against duty-hour rules
Paste the link into DutyHourCheck. It flags EM shifts over 12 hours, rest shorter than the shift before it, weeks over 60 clinical or 72 total hours, no day off in 7, and more than 6 nights in a row, or the Common Program Requirements (80 hours averaged over 4 weeks, 24+4, 14 hours off after 24-hour call). The check runs in your browser and the free audit stays free.
Other schedulers
- QGenda
- Amion
- Lightning Bolt (PerfectServe)
- TigerConnect Physician Scheduling
- MedHub
- New Innovations
- Google, Outlook and iCloud calendars
Steps come from ShiftAdmin's public help pages and may differ in your program's setup. Names are trademarks of their owners. DutyHourCheck isn't affiliated with any scheduling vendor or with the ACGME, and it isn't an official duty-hour tool.