Your attendings, surgeons, and saved names

Attendings live under Settings → Program & roster → “Manage attendings,” where you search, add, remove, look names up in the provider directory or import a CSV. Surgeons, saved drugs, and allergens sit under Appearance & units. Every library edit is forward-only: it fixes future suggestions and warnings, not plans already written.

By Christopher Cutler, MD, CA-1, anesthesiologyUpdated September 2026

Four lists do most of the typing for you. They are all built the same way. Capnolog watches what you enter and remembers it, which means they are all worth correcting once rather than working around forever.

1. 1

   Open “Manage attendings”

   Settings → Program & roster → “Manage attendings.” Search, add and remove from the same screen. Names are stored “Last, First” and sorted by surname, and adding the same person under a second spelling is caught rather than silently duplicated.

2. 2

   Import the names instead of typing them

   Two shortcuts sit on that screen: look a name up in the provider directory, or import a CSV your program already has. Both land in the same roster.

3. 3

   Edit an attending

   Each attending has three details: the name you read, the exact name the ACGME form expects, and whether the attending is still active. An attending who left keeps their cases and stops appearing in the lists you pick from.

4. 4

   Fix a surgeon’s name or service

   Settings → Appearance & units → Surgeons lists every surgeon the plan editor picked up while you typed. Each is filed under whichever service the plan was set to at the time. Tap a row to fix the name or move it to the right service; swipe to remove one.

   A name entered before the service was set lands under “No service set”. It then never appears on the strip that would have saved you the typing. This is the screen that fixes that.

5. 5

   Correct a misspelled drug or allergen

   Same section, next row. A misspelling here is not cosmetic: the allergy warning matches on the spelling, so an allergen saved as “Penicilin” quietly fails to warn against penicillin. Renaming merges into the correct entry rather than forking a second one, because the right spelling is usually already there.

6. 6

   A correction changes future cases only

   A correction fixes every future suggestion and every future warning — not the plans already written, where the name is stored as plain text. To fix a plan you are looking at, edit it there.

These lists are provider names and drug names. They stay on your device, and they ride the encrypted backup with everything else.