Free Physician Progress Note Template & AI Progress Note Maker

A Physician Progress Note, built with Template.net's AI-powered progress note builder, is a dated record one practitioner writes after a patient visit to document identifying information, clinical status, and observations in labeled groups. It's used for recording status updates, physical and mental assessments, risk screens, and treatment plans by physicians, nurse practitioners, clinicians, and healthcare teams across varied settings.

Customize a Free Template
Start with this free editable and printable Physician Progress Note template and personalize it for outpatient visits, follow-ups, or consultation encounters. (or )
Generate an On-Brand Physician Progress Note with AI
Describe the patient encounter you just completed or upload your existing care plan, session notes, or diagnostic summary, and AI will build the actual editable note with fields like diagnosis and risk assessment drafted from what you shared, ready to review, correct, and sign.
Edit in the HTML5 Editor
Adjust identification fields such as patient name, date of birth, session date, start and end times, as well as observation groups like clinical status, appearance, and neurological status. Edit assessment notes and signature lines, plus the locum/clinic and chief complaint / hpi notes in the drag-and-drop editor.
Download a Printable PDF
Download the completed note as a printable PDF for filing in medical records, handing to supervising physicians, or keeping with your own session documentation.

Document these observations the way each one is normally recorded — patient name (entered in a labeled text field), date of birth (entered in a labeled text field), session date (entered in a labeled text field), risk to self or others (selected from multiple checkboxes), clinical status (ticked from a set of options: stable, improved, declined, acute), encounter type (ticked from a set of options: new patient, follow up, post-op, consult), appearance (selected from checkboxes: well-groomed, dishevelled, pale/cyanotic, acutely ill), orientation (selected from checkboxes: person, place, time, situation), skin and extremities condition (selected from checkboxes: warm/dry, edema, rash/lesion, turgor within normal limits), respiratory assessment (selected from checkboxes: clear bilateral, labored, wheezing, cough), cardiovascular and pulse status (selected from checkboxes: regular rate and rhythm, murmur, bradycardia, tachycardia), gastrointestinal and abdomen condition (selected from checkboxes: soft/non-tender, bowel sounds present, nausea/vomiting, distended), musculoskeletal status (selected from checkboxes: within normal limits, joint pain, reduced range of motion, gait steady), neurological status (selected from checkboxes: alert, motor deficit, sensory deficit, reflexes within normal limits), and psychological/mood state (selected from checkboxes: euthymic, anxious, depressed, agitated).