Purpose
Built for regular people
The interface is designed to feel familiar and approachable, with plain-language prompts and report sections that match how people prepare for appointments.
About
A calmer way to prepare for a medical visit.
Medical Appointment Prep helps people turn symptoms, notes, and medications into a visit-ready timeline, questions, and background information they can review with a clinician.
Informational only
No diagnosis
Patient-controlled export
4B small-model build
llama.cpp Space runtime
Read the Field Notes article
Safety
Organization, not advice
The app helps organize what the user provides. It does not diagnose, choose treatment, or replace a qualified healthcare professional.
Hackathon fit
Small model, custom Gradio UI
The app is designed for the Backyard AI track: a specific appointment-prep workflow, a custom Gradio Server frontend, and a MedGemma 1.5 4B GGUF runtime through llama.cpp in the hosted Space.
Open GitHub repositoryField note
I always find it hard to remember what to ask or mention in the middle of an appointment. Helping a parent with appointments can be even more confusing, and this helps ensure we get the right help needed. Having this sheet to read from or share with my doctor will help me in my future appointments.
- My Spouse
Acknowledgements
Thank you to the Build Small Hackathon sponsors.
This project was built for the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon. Thanks to the sponsors for supporting small-model experiments, and especially to OpenAI's Codex for helping shape, test, and ship the app.
Video walkthrough: watch on YouTube
Project update: read the LinkedIn post