Scheduling Software for Large Organisations?

DrCJM asks: "My wife works for a large hospital here in Australia, where her main role is building, managing and (where needed!) enforcing a schedule for all the junior doctors. This schedule covers several campuses, different specialty streams, different expertise levels, and so on. I'm sure there's a scheduling software package out there that can do all of the basic scheduling much faster than their current method of sitting down with very large bits of paper and lots of coloured pens. What software have Slashdot readers encountered that might do the job? Open Source would be great, but commercial efforts are acceptable too."

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Re:If commercial is ok too

[afidel]

Sounds like Exchange + MS Project is a perfect solution then. You can constrain tasks, track resources, etc. So build your schedule in Project and have it assign Exchange appointments automatically. Should work TONS better than pen and paper, especially since visualizing changes is so much easier and transitioning the bulk of the project from week to week is almost efortless.