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Editorial policy

MedSchool publishes educational clinical content for a medical audience. Every article goes through the process below before it is marked status: published.

Who can contribute

Authors must be registered medics in good standing with a recognised medical regulatory body (e.g. GMC, AMA, RACGP). Final-year medical students may co-author with a registered supervisor. Author credentials and registration body are recorded in the author profile; verified authors have had their registration confirmed by our editorial team.

Article structure

Articles include a one-line TLDR, the body, references, and explicit metadata: published date, last-reviewed date, specialty, content type, and audience level. The frontmatter is validated at build time — malformed metadata fails the build, not silently slips through.

References

Clinical claims must cite primary literature, current guidelines, or systematic reviews. Where evidence is mixed, that is stated explicitly in an Evidence callout. Each reference includes a full citation and, where possible, a direct link (DOI, PubMed, or guideline body).

Review process

  1. Submission — the author opens a pull request (or, in Phase 2, submits via the contributor dashboard).
  2. Editorial check — an editor reviews structure, references, and consistency with the style guide.
  3. Clinical review — a second registered medic in the relevant specialty reviews the clinical content.
  4. Publish — the article is merged to main and the production build deploys it.

Updates and corrections

Articles carry a lastReviewedAt date that is updated whenever the article is re-checked against current evidence and guidelines. Corrections are appended openly; the Git history preserves the previous version. If you spot an error, please open an issue or pull request.

Disclosures and conflicts of interest

Authors must declare any financial or non-financial conflicts of interest relevant to the article. These appear at the foot of the article.

Licence

Unless otherwise stated, MedSchool articles are published under CC BY 4.0. You may share and adapt the work with attribution.

Not clinical decision support

MedSchool is educational. It is not, and is not intended to be, clinical decision support software. Always corroborate clinical decisions with current guidelines, local protocols, and the judgement of a treating clinician.