Customise your questionnaire
What you can customise in the i-consult questionnaire: the layered system, specialty, group and individual model, and how to request your own special questions and screening tools today.
i-consult's questionnaire isn't a fixed form. The lines of clinical inquiry, the questioning style, and any special questions or screening tools you rely on can be tailored to how you practise. This article explains what's customisable and how to get changes made today.
What's customisable
The questionnaire is customised in layers, from the broadest default down to you as an individual. Each layer builds on the one above it:
- System: sensible defaults that apply to every consultation across i-consult.
- Specialty: questioning tailored to your area of practice. A cardiology intake feels fundamentally different from an orthopaedic one because the underlying questions differ, not just the template.
- Group: adjustments for a specific practice or clinic group, shared by the clinicians in it.
- Individual: fully personalised to you, including specific screening tools, a particular way of capturing surgical or medication history, or any line of inquiry you want in every patient's pre-consultation.
This layering means two specialists in the same field, at different practices, can each have their own tailored experience.
Two related settings are self-serve in your own profile: your Focus Level and your consultation times. Those shape how broad and how deep the questionnaire goes (see Set your consultation defaults). This article is about the content of the questions, which is configured with the i-consult team.
How to request changes (today)
Questionnaire content isn't fully self-serve yet; there's no in-app editor for adding or rewriting questions. Today, customisation is handled through the i-consult customisation process: you tell the i-consult team what you want, and they configure it for you.
Write down what you'd like changed. For example, a specific screening questionnaire to include, a set of surgical-history questions, or a different emphasis for a presenting complaint.
Send that to the i-consult team through your usual support or onboarding contact.
The team configures the change at the appropriate layer (specialty, group, or individually for you) and confirms when it's live.
Setting expectations honestly: self-serve questionnaire editing is on the roadmap but not available today. For now, the i-consult team makes the change for you, which also means you get a second pair of eyes on clinical wording. Turnaround depends on the complexity of the request.
Any custom questions or screening tools collect self-reported patient information to help you prepare. They don't score, triage, or interpret on your behalf. You remain responsible for reviewing the responses and applying your own clinical judgement during the consultation.
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