Free tool
Build your psychiatric medication history in five minutes
Whether your first appointment is with shrinkMD, another psychiatrist, your PCP, or a therapist, showing up with a clear medication history cuts your intake in half and gives your clinician a real starting point. This tool builds that summary for you. Nothing gets sent anywhere unless you choose to save it.
Medically reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA, board certified psychiatrist · Last reviewed August 27, 2026 · Editorial policy
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Why bring one
What a good medication history does for you
The single most common wasted time in a first psychiatric visit is trying to reconstruct a med history from memory in real time. This is what a clean list changes.
Faster evaluation
Your clinician spends the visit on what is happening now, not on paleontology.
What an evaluation covers →Better prescribing
Knowing what already failed, and at what dose, is how a clinician avoids repeating the same mistake.
How medication management works →Safer prescribing
Listing every current medication, including from other doctors, is how interactions get caught.
Or use the printable worksheet →How to use it
Five minutes now, thirty minutes saved later
Fill in what you can remember. Add current medications one row at a time. Add past medications the same way (name, roughly what dose, roughly how long you took it, and roughly why you stopped). Leave anything blank you do not remember. Bad guesses are more useful than nothing.
When you are done, click "Build my summary." You will see a clean version of what you entered. Print it, save it as a PDF (your browser's print dialog has a "Save as PDF" destination), email it to yourself, or copy the text to clipboard and paste it wherever you want to keep it. Bring the printed copy or your phone to your first visit.
Frequently asked questions
Good questions, clear answers
Is anything sent to shrinkMD when I fill this out?
No. Everything stays in your browser unless you specifically choose to email yourself the summary at the end.
Do I have to be a shrinkMD patient to use this?
No. It is designed to be useful for any first psychiatric visit, whether you are seeing shrinkMD, another practice, a therapist, or your PCP.
What if I do not remember some of my past medications?
Estimate. "An SSRI, I think it was Zoloft, I took it in 2018 or 2019 for about six months and stopped because of side effects" is more useful than nothing.
Do I include supplements and over-the-counter?
Yes if you take them specifically for mental health (melatonin, St. John's Wort, ashwagandha, magnesium for sleep, etc.). Otherwise your clinician will ask about the rest separately.
Can I print this?
Yes. Click "Print or save as PDF." The site's nav and footer are hidden from the print output so you get a clean one-pager.
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