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Not medical advice

The content is not medical advice and does not replace the judgement of a qualified health professional, your institution’s protocols or the instructions of a treating clinician. It must not be used to diagnose, treat, triage or make any decision about a patient. No doctor-patient relationship is created by using the site.

In an emergency

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Draft content has not been medically reviewed

Much of the reference content (anatomy, cranial nerves, terminology, laboratory values, ECG articles, practice material) was drafted with the help of artificial intelligence and has not been reviewed by a qualified clinician. It is labelled as a draft and can contain errors or omissions. The references listed are supporting reading, not proof of each statement.

See also: Source policy

Source-checked content is not medically reviewed either

Some pages are marked “source-checked”. This means their data was cross-checked against published sources (for example official guidelines, WHO, NIH/NCBI or peer-reviewed papers) on the date shown, using an automated, AI-assisted process, and that the sources consulted are listed on the page. It does not mean that a licensed clinician reviewed the page, that it is complete, or that it is current: guidelines change, and the check can miss errors. Source-checked pages may appear in search engines; draft pages do not. Neither kind is a substitute for current guidelines, your course material or a qualified professional.

A page reviewed by a named clinician would say so explicitly, with the reviewer and the date. No page currently makes that claim.

See also: Source policy

Calculators and reference values

Some calculators have not yet been verified against their primary source and are marked as such: do not rely on them clinically. Even verified calculators depend on correct inputs and may not suit your patient or setting. Reference intervals differ between laboratories, methods, populations and countries; always use the intervals of the laboratory that produced a result.

Simulations

The imaging viewer, ECG tracings, OSCE stations, clinical cases and anatomy models are teaching simulations. They are simplified, may be synthetic or stylised, and do not reproduce real patients or the full variability of real findings. They are not for diagnosis.

Drug information

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence was used to draft content and powers the document assistant. AI can produce statements that sound confident but are wrong, outdated or incomplete. Its output is always unverified and must be checked against the original document and primary sources.

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