Helping Students Take Responsibility for Their Health: Making a Medical File
Students can often get so caught up in their busy lives that they forget to make appointments to visit the dentist, doctor or other medical professionals.

Unfortunately, this is a bad practice that can become a bad lifetime habit, as your student fails to put her well being first.

So, consider creating a medical file for her that contains the following:

• a list of up-to-date vaccinations
• what medications she is on
• dates of last doctor visits
• contact info, including websites, addresses and phone numbers, of medical professionals she has an established relationship with health insurance ID numbers
• any other details that could be helpful to kno

You won't do this for your child forever, yet giving her a file with all the details allows her to take stock of her medical history — and to take responsibility for what she has to do next as she takes these steps into adulthood. Here's to your student's health!