Health Maintenance visit lists 1.6

The Health Maintenance Visit Checklist app serves as a valuable resource for medical students, residents, and other healthcare professionals engaged in primary care. It addresses the complexities involved in conducting various health maintenance visits, such as well baby checkups, annual physicals for adults, adolescent health checkups, and prenatal visits.

This app provides two primary features essential for developing competence in this area:

• The first feature includes a comprehensive list of typical items to address during any health maintenance visit across different age groups—from infants to adults, including pregnant individuals. These visits are fundamentally framed as health maintenance encounters.
• The second feature organizes its guidance around the three core objectives of health maintenance visits: screening, health counseling, and chemoprophylaxis.

Additionally, the app offers a concise overview of the approach to health maintenance visits, aligning with the frameworks used by various prominent organizations such as ICSI, AHRQ/USPSTF, AAP, and ACOG. While the content may not exactly mirror local practices, it reliably highlights critical aspects that practitioners should focus on during these visits.

It is crucial for users to be aware of their regional standards and current recommendations for child care and prenatal care. The app's grids serve as an excellent starting point for understanding essential components of health maintenance visits.

Designed specifically for clinician trainees in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics, this tool is also suitable for other healthcare learners, including nurses and physician assistants.

As both an educator and clinician, I welcome feedback aimed at enhancing this tool's usefulness for its intended audience.