Standards
Medical review
Every clinical page on this site is reviewed by a licensed physician before it publishes, and the reviewer is named on the page with the date they signed off.
Who reviews
Both physicians below review every clinical page. The one whose specialty sits closest to the topic is named first and marked as the primary reviewer for that page.
Read more about each of them on their profiles: Dr. Cocuzzo and Dr. Ali.
What the review covers
- Accuracy. Is every clinical claim correct as written, not merely defensible.
- Emphasis. Does the page weight findings the way clinical practice weights them, so the reader learns the right discriminator rather than a memorable irrelevance.
- Vignettes. Does each case present the way a real patient presents, and does the explanation teach the reasoning rather than announce the answer.
- Safety. Could a reader take a wrong action from this page. Anything that could, gets rewritten.
- Sources. Does every clinical claim trace to a source that actually says it.
How a reviewer is assigned
Assignment follows specialty. Neurology, neuroanatomy, child neurology, seizure disorders, demyelinating disease, pediatrics and developmental disabilities go to Dr. Cocuzzo as primary. Psychiatry, osteopathic medicine and OMM go to Dr. Ali as primary. Topics outside both lanes are reviewed by both, and the primary is the physician whose training sits nearer the material. The second physician reviews every page regardless.
Review dates
Each page carries the date it was last medically reviewed. That date resets when the clinical content changes, when a source is revised, or when a correction lands. A date on a page means a physician read that version of that page, not an earlier one.
The limits of this review
Medical review confirms that a page is accurate and safe to learn from. It is not a guarantee of examination performance, it is not a clinical consultation, and it does not make this site a substitute for your program's curriculum or your attending's judgment. Our reviewers are resident physicians practicing in their specialties, not a board of subspecialty consultants, and the review is scoped to teaching content at the level a medical student is expected to master.
If you believe a reviewed page is wrong, tell us. A physician reviewed it, a physician can be wrong, and we would rather fix it than defend it. Report it through the corrections page.