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How to Distribute a Survey to Clinicians

Learn how to distribute surveys to clinicians using MedApps through events or push notifications

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Written by Ben Rowland
Updated over a year ago

MedApps is a platform that allows you to create and send surveys to clinicians for various purposes, such as collecting feedback, preferences, or insights. In this article, you will learn how to distribute a survey to clinicians using two methods: through an event or through a push notification.

In this guide

Distributing Surveys Through an Event

If you want to send a survey related to an event that you created in MedApps, link the survey to the event in the event configuration step. This will generate a unique distribution link for the survey for Clinicians to view on their mobile. You can also set when the survey will open and close relative to the event timings.

Linking a survey to an event

To link a survey to an event, you'll need to

  1. Start by creating an event from the 'Events Feature' located in the side navigation bar.

  2. On the event configuration step, find the section where you can add a survey to the event.

  3. Choose a survey template from the list of current templates available in your location.

  4. Set the closing time of the survey relative to the event timings.

You can also copy the unique distribution link from the survey’s details page and share it with anyone who can access the survey on any device with internet.

How do clinicians receive an event survey?

Clinicians can view event surveys by:

  1. Manually navigating from the app to the event on their 'Guide'

  2. Opening the Events and professional development section of the app by pressing 'More'

  3. Clicking the reminder when it's been scheduled


Distributing surveys via a mobile push notification

If you want to send a survey that is not related to an event, you can use a push notification to reach clinicians’ mobile devices immediately. The clinicians will receive a notification that will open the survey when clicked, and it will also appear in the updates feed on their app.

To send a survey through a push notification:

  1. Open your survey template from the surveys homepage and click ‘Send New Distribution’ at the top right of the screen.

  2. Enter a survey title, a message to users, and choose when to send and close the survey.

  3. Select whether to send the survey to one or more roles or to a specific group of users within a cohort.

  4. Preview and review your survey before distributing it.

Quick demonstration

Check out below how to distribute a survey in the demonstration video

Step-by-Step guide

Step 1 Send new distribution

  1. Open your survey template from the surveys homepage,

  2. Click 'Send New Distribution' at the top right of the screen

Step 2 Configure your distribution settings

  1. Survey Title: this is the title for the survey that the clinicians will see when they view the survey.

  2. Settings: here you configure when the survey will be distributed to the clinicians. You can choose to send it immediately or you can scheduled it to be distributed for a set time in the future. Here you also choose the closing date of the survey, which is the time after which the survey will not be available for responses.

  1. Message to Users: here you configure the message the clinicians will receive with the survey.

Step 3 Who should receive it?

Select Recipients: here you can choose whether to send the survey more broadly to one or more roles, or to send the survey to a specific group of users within a Cohort.

Step 4 Preview survey

Make a final check that you are happy with the survey template.

Step 4 Review and distribute

A final check of all the details before you send it!

Distribution links

Sending or scheduling the push notification will also generate a unique distribution link for the survey that will be visible in the survey’s details page. You can share that link with anyone who can access the survey on any device with internet.

  1. Click on any survey template

  2. Open a distribution which is 'in use'

  3. Click the clipboard to copy the link

Canceling distributions

To cancel or change a scheduled survey distribution

  1. Open announcement feature

  2. Find your message and click the 3 dots to open the message menu

  3. Click delete or edit the announcement


In this article, you learned how to distribute surveys through events or push notifications using MedApps. Now you can create and send surveys to clinicians for various purposes, such as collecting feedback, preferences, or insights. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us at support@medapps.com.

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