To ensure our platform is valuable and additive to the broader medical community, questions must meet the following criteria:

1. Not addressed in existing resources. Questions must fill a gap in current knowledge resources (i.e., textbooks, guidelines, or UpToDate).
2. Relevant to the wider community. To be most effective, questions should be helpful to the broader community and not be overly specific such as unique patient cases.
3. Clinical in nature. Questions must be clinical in nature and answerable. Purely theoretical or "food for thought" questions are not accepted.

Unlike traditional online medical communities, theMednet is not a chat forum or discussion board. Through our moderated Q&A format, we provide peer-reviewed expert answers that physicians can put into clinical practice to improve patient outcomes. That’s why time spent on theMednet now counts toward CME.

At theMednet, transparency is paramount. All authors are required to disclose any potential conflicts of interest before their responses are published. Any question that arose as a result of a special educational program (<5% of questions on the site) is disclosed. These precautions ensure physicians can make informed decisions based on impartial expert knowledge.

We recommend you start by searching theMednet’s database of more than 10,000 questions to see if there already is an answer to your question. If you don’t find your question, ask it! A physician editor will match your question with experts best suited to answer it. You’ll be notified by email once it’s answered.

Only board-certified or eligible physicians in select specialties in the US can join. Today, theMednet community includes Oncology. We expect to launch additional specialties in 2025, so stay tuned for updates.

theMednet was initially self-funded by Nadine and Samir prior to receiving a number of grants from organizations like the National Science Foundation, the SWOG Hope Foundation, and the Bonnie Addario Lung Cancer Foundation. More recently, theMednet has received sponsorship funding for special educational programs we feel are medically relevant and necessary for the community, such as Journal Clubs. With any partnership, we guarantee that:

• All Q&A continue to come solely from our physician community with no input from the sponsor
• Q&A from a sponsored program is disclosed on the site
• No physician user data is ever provided back to our sponsors.

These programs (< 5% of the Q&A on the site) allow us to continue to offer theMednet for free.

Yes! We’ve found that more than a third of the time, physicians change their patient approach or learn something new from theMednet. You can read that publication here.