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A department groups doctors by clinical or organisational unit, for example Cardiology or Emergency Medicine. It’s one of three independent ways to slice your team, alongside location and pod.
Department, location, and pod are independent of each other. Use department for the clinical or organisational unit a doctor belongs to, location for the physical site they work from, and pod for a smaller sub-group within a department.

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Add a department

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Open Departments

Go to Settings, then Organization, then select the Departments tab.
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Start a new department

Select Add Department.
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Name it

Enter a Department Name, for example Cardiology, and an optional Description.
4

Save

Select Create. The department is immediately available to assign to doctors and to filter by.
Only admins can add or edit departments.

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Assign doctors to a department

Open a doctor’s profile, select Edit, and set their Department. See Doctor profiles. Each department in the Departments list shows how many doctors are currently assigned to it.

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Edit a department

Select the edit icon next to a department to update its name or description. Changes apply immediately; a doctor’s own department assignment isn’t affected.

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What department scopes

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Next steps

Update a doctor's profile

Assign doctors to the departments they belong to.

Setting up locations

Define the physical sites your organisation runs from.

Setting up pods

Add a smaller grouping within a department.

Set up an Auto Duty

Scope a recurring duty plan to a specific department.