Medical Focus
Highlights medical details alongside family health history.
Medical Genogram
Health History View
Connects diagnoses, risks, and relevant medical notes across relatives.
Generational Patterns
Shows how health conditions or risks appear across family lines.
Clinical Context
Leaves space for symptoms, screenings, and care notes.
Family Structure
Keeps parents, children, partners, and siblings easy to trace.
Risk Markers
Supports quick review of conditions that may need follow-up.
Care Team Ready
Gives clinicians a clear visual for discussion and documentation.
Editable Medical Map
Can be expanded as new relatives or health details are added.
Map four generations of family structure and relationship context, then add verified conditions, ages, treatments, and care information using this medical genogram on Creately Clinical.
About the Medical Genogram
This medical genogram example maps an extended family across four generations and keeps important relationship context visible, providing a strong foundation for adding health history and care information.
The example includes 18 relatives from the great-grandparent generation through John and his brother. Four people are marked deceased. Marriage, divorce, and separation lines document changes in partner relationships, while dotted and zigzag connectors show emotional dynamics between selected relatives.
The visible relationship labels include abuse, neglect, distant or poor relationships, and indifferent or apathetic relationships. These connections can provide useful psychosocial context alongside medical information. In the editable example, users can add confirmed conditions, age or age of onset, medications, treatments, allergies, relevant behaviors, and data sources to the people already mapped.
- Maps 18 relatives across four generational rows
- Includes both paternal and maternal extended-family branches
- Distinguishes four deceased family members
- Combines family structure with partner status and emotional relationships
The current example focuses on family and relationship context rather than displaying named medical conditions. Use the editable canvas to add the verified health information relevant to the review.
Who Should Use This Example?
This medical genogram can help healthcare and care teams organize extended family structure, medical details, and relevant relationship context in one clear view.
Clinicians and nurses
Collect health history, conditions, onset, treatments, medications, allergies, and sources.
Genetic counselors and care teams
Review multigenerational patterns and prepare focused clinical or referral conversations.
Social workers and counselors
Add relevant psychosocial relationships and support context alongside health information.
Students and educators
Practice comprehensive medical-genogram structure and documentation.
Symbols Used in This Genogram
Use structural lines for family connections and labeled relationship lines for clinically relevant interpersonal context.
Square
Male family member
Circle
Female family member
X through a symbol
Deceased family member
Horizontal partner line
Marriage or partner relationship
Vertical descent line
Parent–child relationship
Red marks across a partner line
Divorce or separation, as labeled
Black dotted line
Distant, poor, indifferent, or apathetic relationship, as labeled
Red zigzag line
Abuse relationship, as labeled
Dashed line labeled “Neglect”
Neglect relationship recorded in the example
When to Use This Example
Use this example when a medical or care review benefits from seeing health information within the wider family and relationship system.
- During clinical intake, health-history collection, referral preparation, or case review.
- When psychosocial relationships may add useful context to reported health information or care coordination.
- For multidisciplinary conversations involving clinicians, counselors, social workers, or other care-team members.
- When building a reusable family map that can be enriched with verified medical details over time.
How to Customize This Genogram
- 1
Identify the focus person
Mark the person or household at the center of the review, then decide which family branches and generations are relevant.
- 2
Confirm the family structure
Add partners, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and great-grandparents using consistent connection lines and status markers.
- 3
Add verified medical information
Record conditions, age or age of onset, medications, treatments, allergies, relevant behaviors, and sources according to the purpose of the genogram.
- 4
Add relationship context and review
Label clinically relevant emotional relationships, confirm sensitive information, check the legend, and use comments or review notes to resolve gaps before sharing or exporting the diagram.
Creately Clinical Capabilities for This Example
Creately Clinical supports medical-genogram workflows with structured health fields, clinical notation, health-focused views, collaborative review, and report-ready outputs.
- Relevant field packs: Medical & Genetic and Family Therapy fields for conditions, markers, medications, allergies, treatment, relationships, and notes.
- Best-fit view modes: Health and Relationship Dynamics views for examining clinical and psychosocial context.
- Clinical notation: 71 relationship subtypes across 9 categories and 40+ auto-derived person-shape variants support clear mapping.
- AI and reporting: Draft from intake notes, collaborate with role-based access, and export PDF or DOCX case files.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why include emotional relationships in a medical genogram?
They can preserve relevant family-system context alongside medical information. Include only information appropriate to the purpose of the review, and label each connection clearly.
Where should medical conditions be recorded?
Add verified conditions to the relevant person using the team’s chosen fields, markers, or notes. Include dates, age of onset, status, and source when those details support accurate interpretation.
Can I simplify this example?
Yes. Keep only the relatives and relationship details relevant to the current task, then expand the same canvas when additional context becomes useful.
How can Creately Clinical support this workflow?
The Medical & Genetic field pack can organize conditions, genetic information, medications, allergies, and related health details. Health-focused views, comments, collaboration, version history, and export options support ongoing review and documentation.
Start in Creately Clinical, then deepen the medical case view
Edit the genogram to map the family system, add verified medical details, and create a clear working genogram for collaborative review and future updates.