Terms of use

Educational purpose

MedCourseFinder is a study resource for students and health professionals. It offers reference pages, practice questions, flashcards, simulations and tools for learning. It is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, triage or monitor any patient.

No medical advice, no doctor-patient relationship

Nothing on MedCourseFinder is medical advice. Using the site does not create a doctor-patient or any other care relationship between you and the operator or the authors. If you have a health concern, consult a qualified health professional. Never ignore or delay professional advice because of something you read here.

See also: Medical disclaimer

Emergencies

MedCourseFinder is not an emergency service. In an emergency, contact your local emergency services immediately. Do not use this site to decide how to handle an emergency.

Accounts

An account is optional. You must give a valid email address, keep your password confidential and tell us if you suspect unauthorised use. You are responsible for activity under your account. You must be old enough to enter a contract in your country, or have the permission of a parent or guardian.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• enter patient-identifiable or other sensitive personal information anywhere on the site;
• attempt to disrupt the service, bypass its protections or access accounts or data that are not yours;
• scrape the site at a rate that affects other users, or use automated means to create accounts or reports;
• submit unlawful, defamatory, infringing, misleading or spam content;
• present the content as medical advice or use it for clinical decisions.

Reports and contributions

When you send a report or suggestion, you keep your rights in it, and you grant the operator a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, review, edit and use it to correct and improve the content, without obligation to credit you or to act on it. You confirm that you have the right to submit it and that it does not infringe anyone’s rights. Do not paste copyrighted text you are not allowed to share.

Intellectual property and third-party licences

The original text, design and code of MedCourseFinder belong to the operator and its contributors, except where stated. Third-party data, models and software are used under their own open licences, such as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), the MIT licence and the Apache License 2.0; attributions and licence terms are listed on the credits page and are not overridden by these terms. You may use the site for personal study. Do not republish or resell its content without permission, except as your licences allow.

See also: Credits and licences

AI-assisted draft content

Much of the reference content was drafted with the help of artificial intelligence and has not been reviewed by a qualified clinician. Such content is labelled as a draft. AI never marks content as verified: only a human reviewer, working through the verification pipeline (source check, medical review, approval), can publish an item as reviewed. Even reviewed content can contain mistakes. Check important information against your course material and primary sources. The document assistant is an AI feature whose answers may be incomplete or wrong.

See also: Source policy

Availability and changes to the service

The service is provided as available. We may change, suspend or withdraw features or content at any time, with or without notice, for example for maintenance or corrections.

Warranty disclaimer and limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without any warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted availability. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator and the authors are not liable for any loss or harm arising from your use of the site or reliance on its content, including any clinical, academic or financial consequence. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or wilful misconduct, or your mandatory rights as a consumer.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using the site and ask us to delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account, or restrict access, if you breach these terms or misuse the service. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (intellectual property, liability, governing law) continue to apply.

Governing law

The governing law and competent courts are those stated below by the operator. Mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence continue to apply.

Governing law and competent courts

To be completed by the operator

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The new version applies from the date shown at the top of this page. If you continue to use the site after a material change, you accept the updated terms.

Contact

The publisher’s identity and contact details are in the legal notice.

See also: Legal notice