Community Guidelines & Acceptable Use

INDICIVM Clinical is an educational workspace for healthcare students in clinical training. Its community areas — announcements, shared boards, message threads, and suggestions — exist so members can learn from one another. These guidelines describe the conduct expected of every member and the way INDICIVM moderates content. They apply to everything a member posts or uploads inside the platform.

Prohibited conduct

Members must not:

• Post abusive content. Harassment, threats, discrimination, hate speech, or content that targets a person or group on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or national origin.
• Upload patient-identifying information. Names, dates of birth, record or account numbers, images, addresses, or any other protected health information, and any confidential clinical record shared without appropriate authorization. Enter de-identified information only.
• Share dangerous or deliberately misleading clinical information. Advice that could cause harm, content presented as clinical guidance without basis, or material that misrepresents evidence, dosing, or standards of care.
• Post spam, fraudulent material, or malicious links. Advertising, solicitation, phishing, malware, or links to any of the above.
• Misrepresent credentials or qualifications. Claiming licensure, certification, title, or clinical authority that a member does not hold.
• Attempt unauthorized access or disruption. Probing, scraping, or attempting to reach another member's private records, circumventing access controls, or interfering with the availability or integrity of the platform.
• Infringe intellectual property. Posting copyrighted material, exam content, or proprietary course material without the right to share it.

Clinical and academic records

Moderation applies to public and shared community content. It does not reach into a member's private clinical encounter log, academic records, skills records, time logs, or purchased educational materials, and a moderation decision is never authorization to erase a member's records. Deletion of private data follows the platform's established account and data deletion procedures and applicable privacy requirements.

Members remain responsible for following their own program, preceptor, institutional, and licensing requirements, including any prohibition on sharing course or examination material.

Moderation and enforcement

INDICIVM may review, restrict, hide, or remove user-generated content when reasonably necessary to enforce these guidelines, protect members, comply with legal obligations, or maintain the security and integrity of the platform. Moderation decisions are based on a documented policy violation or a legitimate safety concern, and each decision is recorded with its reason.

This authority is exercised within applicable law and is not unlimited: it does not override contractual commitments, statutory rights, or data protection obligations that apply to the platform.

• Reversible first. Where content is public or shared, INDICIVM prefers hiding content, which can be restored, over permanent removal.
• Content is not an account. Removing a post is a distinct decision from suspending or closing an account. Account-level action follows the separate account terms and is not taken merely because a single post was removed.
• Notice. When appropriate, the author is told that content was removed or restricted and for what reason.

Requesting a review

A member who believes a moderation decision was mistaken may request a review through the designated support channel: reply in the message thread where the notice was sent, or use the contact page. Requests are reviewed by the INDICIVM team, and hidden content can be restored when the decision does not hold up. Moderation notes and administrator-only controls are not shared with members.

Reporting

Members who see content that breaks these guidelines should use the contact page. Reports are reviewed by the INDICIVM team.

Educational use only

INDICIVM is an educational platform. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and it does not replace professional clinical judgment, supervision, institutional policy, or applicable law. Nothing posted in a community area is clinical guidance.

Changes to these guidelines

These guidelines may be updated as the platform evolves. The date at the top of this page reflects the current version.