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Dear readers,
MedCaseReports.com (formerly PrzypadkiMedyczne.pl, in operation since October 2009) is an educational portal and a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The portal is created by and for medical enthusiasts who are professionally engaged with medicine. The site features numerous case-quizzes, case-tests, user-proposed treatment algorithms, and collections of reviews of medical films, series and books.
The core form of articles published on the portal are case-quizzes. By collecting clinical history from quiz authors and ordering appropriate investigations, users attempt to make the correct diagnosis and propose treatment. Our intention is for the portal to expand medical knowledge in a practical way, encourage the search for correct answers, and showcase the clinical face of medicine.
MedCaseReports.com is addressed to physicians, paramedics, nurses, medical students, future medical trainees, and all other enthusiasts of medicine.
Before you start using the service, you are required to read the brief but extremely important terms below. One of the points states that browsing the portal and posting content on it constitutes acceptance and understanding of these terms.
Terms of the MedCaseReports.com portal:
1. Presence on the portal and posting content on it constitutes acceptance and full understanding of these terms.
2. The following may be posted on the portal:
2.1) descriptions of fictional, hypothetical cases
2.2) descriptions of patient cases for which you hold written consent for anonymous publication on MedCaseReports.com
2.3) descriptions of cases that happened to you as a patient — publication is possible when the resolution is known and the goal is education, not seeking a diagnosis.
3. Responsibility for content posted on the portal is transferred to the person posting. The editorial team has no ability to verify articles posted by users with respect to legal liability for the information provided.
4. The content of MedCaseReports.com does not have a scientific character. The materials posted here cannot replace a visit to a specialist or a scientific textbook. Although the essence of the descriptions, diagnoses and proposed treatments is intended to be as realistic, accurate and consistent with current medical guidelines as possible, the portal is publicly accessible and largely created by people without specialist competence — it cannot serve as a source of infallible knowledge.
5. It is forbidden to provide any details that could disclose the identity of the patients in the cases described (we do not give, among other things, real names, surnames, dates of events, or specific locations). This applies in particular to case descriptions referred to in point 2.2 of the MedCaseReports.com Terms.
Furthermore, articles, QUIZZES and comments must be written legibly and may not contain:
5.1) profanity or offensive content,
5.2) advertising content,
5.3) content unrelated to the topic.
6) The editorial team may amend the terms with notice to all users. In such case, information will be sent by e-mail. A user's refusal to accept the changes is equivalent to resigning from their account on MedCaseReports.com.
7) Authors posting QUIZZES and TESTS are asked to follow the discussion in the comments and to answer questions directed at them.
8) The editorial team is entitled to make changes to user-submitted cases awaiting acceptance. Changes may concern formatting, maintaining a correct schema/template, preserving correct language, and observing anti-spam rules.
9) The editorial team has the right to refuse user-submitted cases on the grounds that they do not match the profile of the portal.
10) Users of MedCaseReports.com agree to receive the newsletter. Users who do not consent are asked, after registration, to send an e-mail to contact@mdcse.com with the message "I do not consent to receiving the newsletter" together with their login.
11) The owner of the portal is MEDUCASE Sp. z o. o.
Terms for the MedCaseReports.com journal
Available as detailed guidelines in the Journal section.
Terms for the paid section
1) The paid section consists of LEK-endium, i.e. collections of original test questions preparing for the Polish Medical Final Examination (LEK).
2) The fee is PLN 49 for six months of access to the collections and is voluntary.
3) A 10-day return period applies.
4) Complaints will be considered upon proper documentation of malfunction of the paid components.
5) The authors of the paid sections make every effort to ensure that the information they contain is accurate, but they take no responsibility for any errors.
Once again, we warmly welcome you to the portal and encourage you to take an active part in its creation; for readers-only, we wish you a pleasant read. Any ideas, suggestions or expressions of interest in collaborating on the site should be directed to the editorial e-mail.
The MedCaseReports.com editorial team
General e-mail (portal): contact@mdcse.com
General e-mail (journal): contact@mdcse.com