Health Maintenance visit lists vs Keystones of Development Usage & Stats
Hey Students & Residents! (and anyone else interested),
How do you keep straight all the stuff you're supposed to get done at a 9 month old well baby checkup? What about the "annual physical" for a 58 year old? How about a 14 year old's health maintenance visit? Or a 28 week prenatal visit?
Health Maintenance Visit Checklist app brings you two key aides as you grow into doing this work at a high level.
First, the app presents copious typical items to accomplish at any kind of health maintenance visit, whether on babies, kids, teens, adults, and even pregnant women (whose visits are really best appreciated as health maintenance).
Second, the app presents all its guidance consistent with the three objectives in any health maintenance visit: screening, health counseling, and chemoprophylaxis.
The app also includes a brief discussion of the approach to a health maintenance visit.
This material is consistent with (although far from identical to) the way that several other major organizations organize health maintenance, including ICSI, AHRQ/USPSTF, AAP, ACOG, and more.
As the disclaimer states, the content of the suggestions for screening, health counseling, and chemoprophylaxis at any age or visit may differ from what you do. But in most cases it will be similar or the same, and more importantly it suggests what kinds of things you should pay attention to in such visits. It's your job to know your local standards and schedules for various aspects of well child care or prenatal care, etc. And it's your job to keep up to date with latest recommendations on what should appear in grids like this and what should be removed. But these grids are a great place to start.
This app is written and intended for clinician trainees like medical students and residents training in primary care fields including family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics. Also appropriate for other learners like nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, etc.
As an educator and clinician, I am interested in feedback and I would be grateful for guidance on improving the tool.
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Looking for ways to promote brain development and strengthen parent-child relationships during routine checkups? The Keystones of Development curriculum is designed to support pediatric and family medicine residents in everyday practice. Download the app to start learning today!
How It Works:
1. Get invited by a faculty member at your institution.
2. Explore our curriculum to learn practical ways to promote six developmental keystones—secure attachment, autonomy, self-regulation, problem-solving, perspective-taking, and academic knowledge—during your well-child visits.
3. Test your knowledge with short quizzes after each module.
4. Download parent handouts and supporting materials to support your practice.
Why use Keystones of Development (KOD)?
ENHANCE YOUR PRACTICE—Learn how to support positive parenting behaviors and early childhood development at every visit 0-5.
SUPPORT YOUR TRAINING—KOD helps fill in gaps around how to focus on early relational health and routine parenting issues that come up at visits, like toilet training, discipline, and sleep.
BASED IN RESEARCH—KOD focuses on six developmental keystones that are well supported by research, largely dependent on caregiver behaviors, and strongly predictive of later well-being.
LEARN ON THE GO—Take the Keystones with you wherever you go. You’ll continue to have access even after you’re done.
LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE—Track your progress on the 13 modules. Your progress will be saved whether you choose to continue on your phone or your computer, watch the curriculum all at once, or take your time.
GET TO OTHER TRAININGS—Deepen your knowledge around sleep, toilet training, and discipline to prepare you for conversations with families in the exam room.
SUPPORT THE FAMILIES YOU WORK WITH—Download supportive resources, like age-based handouts and videos, for the families you see in your practice.
- Download the Keystones of Development App
- Log in with the account provided to you by your program faculty
- Start learning!
Contact us with any questions!
Email: Keystones@mssm.edu
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Health Maintenance visit lists VS. 
Keystones of DevelopmentMay 3, 2026