ClinicalPearls Author Terms of Service

Version v1 — Effective 2026-05-24

These Author Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your use of ClinicalPearls as a content contributor ("Author"). By submitting a case, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by the per-case attestation you sign at submission time.

1. Eligibility

You must be a board-eligible or board-certified physician, fellow, or resident in anesthesiology or a related specialty, and you must be acting in your individual capacity and not on behalf of any employer, hospital, training program, or institution.

2. Content You Submit

All content you submit must satisfy the per-case attestation, which is recorded immutably for each case at submission time. In particular:

• Cases must be fictional or fully de-identified. No protected health information ("PHI") under HIPAA, and no information that could reasonably identify a real patient, may be included.
• The clinical reasoning and narrative must be your original work.
• You must not submit material owned by, or under contractual restriction from, your employer, hospital system, or training program.

3. License You Grant to ClinicalPearls

For each submitted case, you grant ClinicalPearls a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly display, and use the case and its associated structured data, including for the purpose of licensing it to third parties for artificial intelligence model training, evaluation, and research.

You retain ownership of your underlying clinical expertise. ClinicalPearls claims no rights over cases you do not submit, nor over your practice of medicine.

4. Compensation

Approved cases qualify for the payout tier displayed at submission time (standard, specialized, or rare). Payouts are made by the methods listed in your ClinicalPearls account after a case is approved and verified by a reviewer. Rejected cases earn no payout. Withdrawn cases earn no payout.

5. No Patient Care Relationship

ClinicalPearls is a dataset platform. It does not provide medical advice, does not establish a physician-patient relationship, and is not a clinical decision support tool. You agree not to submit cases that you would not be comfortable publishing in an educational journal under a fictional patient identifier.

6. Withdrawal and Recall

You may withdraw a submitted case from review at any time before it is verified by a reviewer. Once a case has been verified and included in a delivered buyer bundle, it cannot be recalled from buyers who have already received it. ClinicalPearls will, on request, exclude the case from all future bundle generations.

7. Termination

Either party may terminate your participation as an Author at any time. The licenses granted in Section 3 for cases already submitted survive termination.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, ClinicalPearls is not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the platform. Your sole remedy for any dispute is termination of your account.

9. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.

10. Changes

ClinicalPearls may update these Terms by publishing a new version. The version in effect at the time you submit a case governs that submission and the attestation recorded against it.

Questions: support@clinicalpearls.ai