Medscape FAQs

The majority of the surveys you have been invited to are developed by our clients. These clients set the specific criteria and parameters for which they are searching.

Your expertise, years in practice, or any other targeted information may be different from the specified needs of conducting research for this particular survey.

If you did not qualify or if the maximum number of survey responses was reached, you will be entered into a sweepstake. This sweepstake gives all entered a chance to win $50.00 Amazon.com gift cards. For rules and more information: https://www.medscape.com/promo/public/marketresearch/rules?activityId=16236

Currently, clinicians residing in the United States are eligible to participate in these surveys (unless otherwise indicated in the survey invitation).

Please note that even if you reside in the United States, there may be additional screening questions you may be required to answer to determine whether you qualify to participate in each individual survey opportunity.

First please try the following:

1. Log into www.medscape.com. You will know if you’re logged in by seeing your first initial and last name in the upper-right corner.

2. From the homepage click on Medscape CME which is located on the upper-left corner. You can also go directly to http://cme.medscape.com.

3. On that page click on CME Tracker in the upper-right corner.

4. Go to “Total Credits Earned from” and change the date to reflect the time in which you completed earlier activities. Click the “Change Date Range” button and you should see your total credits for that time period.

Any CME activities that you have completed on the Medscape site will show up in the tracker.

If you see some, but not all of your CME/CE credits in your Tracker, or if you are seeing a different Education Tracker on the Medscape app as opposed to the Medscape site, then it is possible that you may have created more than one Medscape account. If you believe this to be the case, please select 'Contact Us' at the top of this page, and select the 'Update My Profile' category and 'Other Profile Changes' subcategory. Please include asmany of the following details as possible:

Any email addresses you may have used when registering (whether a currently valid email or not)

Your Medscape username(s)

The zip code/postal code you entered when registering

Your full first and last name

Your date of birth

The profession and medical specialty you chose at registration

Once we are able to confirm that you are the owner of any duplicate accounts, we will merge them into your correct/current Medscape account to consolidate all information.

If you are an author of content published on our website and have any questions, comments, or concerns, please email the authoring department directly at [email protected].

As part of the most trusted and recognized brand in healthcare, verified and qualified Medscape Members can take part in paid market research opportunities.

We send targeted survey invitations via email or within our Medscape website.

Each survey may contain client createdscreen-erquestions in order to determine if you meet the survey eligibility criteria per our client. If you qualify and complete the entire survey, you will be sent compensation within 4-6 weeks of the survey closing in the form of an Amazon.com gift code.

Medscape does not limit the amount of honoraria you can earn; however once you claim $600 or more for the year, we will prompt you to fill out a W-2 form for the IRS.

To sign up for our market research survey opportunities, please click here and use the Join Now button on the next page.

If you are not already logged in to your Medscape account, you will be prompted to enter your username and password.

If you do not already have a Medscape account, you may register by clicking here.

The terms content preferences and specialty are currently used interchangeably within the different Medscape App platforms. This can lead to some confusion. Android uses will see the term ' Content Preferences' while, iOS users will see the option listed as 'Speciality. In reality, all App platforms shoud list this selection as 'Content Preferences', since specialities can only be changed via our website.

The 'specialty' cannot be updated on the Medscape App ; this can only be done via your online www.medscape.com profile.To update your specialty, please refer to Changing specialty homepage

Via App, however, you may update the 'content preference' you are interested in reading. Please keep in mind that this selection will only be saved locally. Meaning, if you uninstall or sign out of the App, the content preference will revert to the original content selected on your Medscape.com profile - "Online profile always wins over the App".

When using an Android device, you will be able to change your content by selecting “Content Preferences” and selecting the specialty you wish to read about.

ANDROID:

iOS:

Medscape LIVE! Symposium Events

[Q] How do I earn credit for this live event?

[A] Credit for Medscape Registered Users:

Earn Credit via QR Codes

Use your mobile device to scan the QR Code presented in one of the following areas at the Live Event:

Slide Presentation:

Attendees will see a QR Code presented on the last presentation slide

Earn Credit Button:

. Seen within the Array Application, this will display the same QR Code

Event Kiosk: (Not available at all events)

. If there is a Medscape LIVE! Kiosk outside the event space, scan the QR Code displayed on the screen to earn credit.

After scanning one of these QR Codes:

You may be prompted to log into your Medscape account

Login to the site and you will immediately be directed to the page where you can earn your credit.

The code will take you to a page where you can follow the prompts to earn your credit.

Earn Credit via URL

At the top of each QR code image and displayed within printed materials for the event, attendees will see a URL available for them to earn credit.

Enter that URL into your mobile browser

You may be prompted to log into your Medscape account

Login to the site, and you will immediately be directed to the page where you can earn your credit.

The URL will take you to a page where you can follow the prompts to earn your credit.

[A] Credit for Non-Medscape Users:

Earn Credit via QR Codes

Use your mobile device to scan the QR Code presented in one of the following areas at the Live Event:

Slide Presentation:

Attendees will see a QR Code presented on the last presentation slide

Earn Credit Button:

. Seen within the Array Application, this will display the same QR Code

Event Kiosk: (Not available at all events)

. If there is a Medscape LIVE! Kiosk outside the event space, scan the QR Code displayed on the screen to earn credit.

After scanning one of these QR Codes:

You will be brought to the Medscape Login page

Click on the tab labeled, “REGISTER FOR FREE”

Fill out the registration form, and create a Medscape account

Once you create your account you will be redirected to the page where you can earn your credit.

Earn Credit via URL

At the top of each QR code image and displayed within printed materials for the event, attendees will see a URL available for them to earn credit.

Enter that URL into your mobile browser

You will be brought to the Medscape Login page

Click on the tab labeled, “REGISTER FOR FREE”

Fill out the registration form, and create a Medscape account

Once you create your account you will be redirected to the page where you can earn your credit.

[Q] Will there be a Recording of this Live Event?

[A] Generally, yes, but there are exceptions

Most of the live events produced by Medscape LIVE! are recorded, and those events are published on our Education site for additional credit. Recordings are generally available 1 month after the live event has taken place.

To find the recorded event, navigate back to the page where you earned credit for the event, and there should be a link to the recording when it’s available.

[A] Exceptions:

Some of our programs do not have a recorded component, and Medscape will not publish the event recording for additional credit.

[Q] Can I Bring a Friend to the Event?

[A] Of course! The more the merrier

If the event is taking place at a conference, we recommend bringing your conference badge to the event, in order to register you and/or your friends for the event more quickly.

[Q] Do I need to have a Medscape account to attend one of your Live Events?

[A] No, you do not need a Medscape account to Attend a Medscape LIVE! Event.

Attendees will need to register for the event, but they do not need to be a Medscape member to attend. If you wish to earn credit for attending the event, you’ll need to create a medscape account. See above for registering for a free Medscape account.

[Q] I registered for a Medscape LIVE! event, am I now a Medscape member?

[A] Registering online, yes

Medscape requires users to login and/or register for a Medscape account in order to pre-register for a Medscape LIVE! event

[A] Registering at the event, no

Simply going through the registration process at the event does not mean you have a Medscape account. If you’d like to earn credit for the event, you’ll need to create an account.

[Q] Will I have a chance to ask questions of the Faculty?

[A] Yes!

Medscape LIVE! Reserves time for at the end of events for attendees to ask questions of our faculty panel. However, due to time constraints our faculty may not be able to answer all questions.

Medscape has many exciting features. For an overview, take a look at our website tabs:

News & Perspective, Drugs & Diseases, CME & Education, Academy, Consult, Video

News & Perspective: Breaking medical news, conference coverage, expert commentary, Medscape Business of Medicine articles, and much more!

We're proud of our editorial collaborations with such esteemed organizations as the American College of Cardiology, the Endocrine Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the National Kidney Foundation.

Drugs & Diseases: Access a wide range of helpful reference materials and clinical tools, such as drug lookup and interaction checker, the latest procedure and treatment guidelines, calculators, health insurance formulary plans, our physician directory, and many other resources. Here you can also access our popular cases, quizzes, and slideshows.

CME & Education: Stay current in your field with Medscape's large library of Continuing Medical Education activities. Want to know more about the business side of medicine and how to make the most of your earnings? Check out the learning modules of Physician Business Academy.

Consult: Looking to connect with other physicians and find out how they would make a diagnosis, select a treatment, and more? Medscape Consult is an online community where physicians ask and answer clinical questions as well as share and discuss clinical challenges. It's your virtual curbside consult.

Video: We're excited to offer Medscape TV, beautifully produced content with a personal touch, including insights and experiences from real physiciansand their real patients.

Medsims:Patientsimulations! Check it out ~ MedSims The underlying framework of MedSims' simulations incorporate the National Committee for Quality Assurance's (NCQA) formula for improvement Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Repeat.

Podcasts:As long as you have 'Cardiology' listed as your content preference, your Medscape should open to the following page: https://www.medscape.com/cardiology. From this cardiology homepage, scroll down to the 'Perspectives' area. You will see the podcast listed as 'This Week in Cardiology' with a headphone symbol on right.Or you may save the following page as a favorite:

Medscape Podcasts

Medscape is available in these languages as well:

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Medscape FRANAIS

Medscape ESPAOL

Medscape DEUTSCH

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No. Medscape does not offer any options for mailing or emailing certificates, nor do we submit them to your board or institution.

Instead, you may print your earned CME/CE certificates via the Medscape CME/CE Tracker.

Your CME/CE Tracker will keep a record of all certificates you’ve earned.

You can view or print your certificates at any time by going directlyto your Tracker at http://www.medscape.org/activitytracker.

If you are filling out the new member registration form and receive a message stating that the email address entered is already in use, you may already have a Medscape account.

If you do not recall your sign-in credentials, use the sign-in/reset links available via the login screen.

If you need more assistance, click the Contact Us button at the top of this page.

If your medical school is not listed in the drop-down menu on our registration page, please click the Contact Us button at the top of this page and let us know the name and location of your school. We will work on adding it to the list.

In the meantime, you can proceed with your registration by choosing a different medical school in the same country or region as the one attended.

Is your school in a country other than the United States? If so, please see the following FAQ: Unable to select an International Medical School

Medscape Education (medscape.org) is the leading destination for continuous professional development, comprising 30+ specialty-focused websites offering thousands of free CME/CE courses (ranging from 0.25 credits to 2 credits AMA PRA credits) and not-for-credit activities for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Accessible via the desktop and mobile platforms, Medscape Education is always available to inform and educate clinicians, through a variety of formats that include Clinical News Briefs, Patient Simulations, Clinical Cases, Expert Commentary Videos, Conference Coverage, and more.

Medscape, LLC is accredited with commendation by the ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education) as a provider of certified physician education. Medscape, LLC is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation and accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. All of our accredited activities are independently developed by a dedicated team of scientific directors who work in cooperation with leading faculty from major academic institutions, including leading physician experts in the areas of Oncology, Cardiology, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Neurology, and more.

Any of the programs featured on the Medscape Education websites can be accessed by visiting www.medscape.org.

1. Within 6-8 weeks after the survey closes (which is different from the date completed) you will receive an email from [email protected] contains a link to your honoraria in the form of an Amazon.com electronic gift card (code).

2. Once you receive your honorarium email, click on the CLAIM button/link in the email.

IMPORTANT: If you do not claim your gift code by the expiration date listed within the email, you will waive any claim to this gift card.

Keep in mind: Once you have gone through the process to receive/claim your gift card code on Amazon, the gift code can be redeemed at any time and will not expire.

3. Log in to your Medscape.com account (make sure you are logged in as yourself and not under someone else’s account). If you need assistance with logging into your account, click here.

4. Select the Amazon.com Gift Card checkbox, edit your recipient email address (if necessary), and click the Submit button.

5. On the final page, you will be provided with your Amazon.com gift code. Additionally, an email with the gift card code will be sent from [email protected] to the email address you provided.

6. After you have received your Amazon.com gift code, you will be able to redeem your code on Amazon.com.

Even if you do not plan on using your code right away, it is highly recommended that you apply the gift card code to your Amazon.com account to use on future purchases.

Visit www.Amazon.com/help if you need assistance in applying your gift card code(s) to your Amazon account.

Not receiving your payment emails? Please search your inbox for emails from [email protected] well as [email protected].

Please view the following FAQ:

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Q: Why do you need to verify my identity?

A: Market research can provide valuable insights into the perspectives, opinions, and experiences of healthcare professionals. In the interest of maintaining the integrity of the Medscape market research process and survey results, we require that you verify your identity as a healthcare professional before participating in Medscape Paid Research surveys.

Q: How secure is this process?

A: Don't worry - The information you submit below will be sent in an encrypted form directly to our identity verification vendor who will use the information solely to identify you within its database. If you are so identified, you will be presented with a series of questions that only you should be able to answer. If you answer all questions correctly, you will be eligible to participate in Medscape Paid Market Research. Note that Medscape does not store any of the information that you submit nor does Medscape have access to your answers to the verification questions.

Yes. Your personal information is not revealed to the end client. Only aggregate information is provided.

We will not provide any sponsor with your survey responses on an identifiable basis unless we obtain your consent.

If you participate in a survey administered by a third-party market research company, this company may identify you when you participate in the survey.

We require these companies to agree that they will not provide the survey sponsor with personally identifiable information about you based on your participation in thesurvey, nor will they market to you based on such participation.

For more information, please review our privacy policy.

You will need to do this through our website, not through our mobile application:

Visit www.medscape.com and log in to your account.

In the upper-right corner, click the gear icon next to your name.

Choose My Account from the drop-down menu.

On the next screen, select Professional/Contact Information.

Here you can change your display name, email or mailing address, password, professional information, or any other information within your profile.

Once you have made the changes to your profile information, click the Update button at the bottom.

If you no longer wish to receive a particular Medscape newsletter or email, simply click the words "Unsubscribe" toward the bottom of the mailing. This will take you to a second page where the unsubscribe for that particular product mailer can be submitted.

If you no longer wish to receive emails from a particular business unit of Medscape, you will want to select the 'opt out' link from the mailer you are receiving. This will take you to a second page where the opt out for that particular business unit can be submitted.Each mailer you receive could be from another business unit. Business units are listed on the bottom of the mail. Our Medscape business units are as follows:Medscape Education, Medscape from WebMD, and WebMD Professional. Please allow 10 days for your request to feed throughout our systems.

If you want to stop all emails and are unsure which busines units you have or have not opted out, please click the 'Contact Us' button on this page, selecting the 'Edit Profile' category, and request a GLOBAL opt out. **Important**, once globally opting out, it is rather difficult to decide to start receiving emails again. Please ensure you truly wish to globally opt-out of all Medscape business unit emails.A member Support rep will answer your request in the order it is received.

If you believe an opt out is not working as it should, please click the 'Contact Us' button on this page, & forward the mailer you continue to receive.

We also recommend updating your email preferences by going to My Account and selecting Newsletter Preferences, which will allow you to choose which types of mailings you would like to receive.

You will need to do this through the Medscape website, not through our mobile app.

1. Visit www.medscape.com and log in to your account.

2. In the upper-right corner, click the icon next to your own name.

3. Choose My Account from the drop-down menu.

4. On the next screen, select Professional/Contact Information.

5. Here you can change your display name, email or mailing address, password, professional information, and any other information within your profile.Please note Password requirements -8 character minimum.No punctuation; only letters & numbers are accepted.

6. Once you have updated your profile information, click the Update button at the bottom.

*Changes to a Medscape profile must performed via our website; changes can not be accepted from the Medscape App.

Yes. All of Medscape's content is available completely free of charge.

Whether you're looking for breaking medical news, CME activities, expert commentary on topics that affect medical professionals, clinical tools and calculators, the latest treatment guidelines, or advice for staying on top of the business of medicine, Medscape provides all of this and more, for free.

***Currently our password reset option via App is not functioning. Members are reporting a 'Service Unavailable" error. Please open your mobile web browser and head to www.Medscape.com and reset from the site.***** We will update this section once the App reset is available.****

When filling out the New Member Registration form, please supply your current email address and create a password.

A Medscape password must be at least five characters. Special characters are not accepted.

If you are already a Medscape member and would like a quick login option allowing login without a password, visit Sign In Assistance.

If you are already registered but would like to change your password, visit Password Assistance.

Please note Password requirements -8 character minimum.No punctuation; only letters & numbers are accepted.

At one time, Medscape required user names for sign-in. Currently, Medscape accepts either a registered email address or a user name for sign-in. If you are having difficulty remembering a past user name, it may be helpful to recall that user names needed to be at least five characters in length and that special characters and capital letters were acceptable.

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If an activity is certified for physician CME, then the CME certificate issued to physicians is for earning AMA PRA Category 1 credit.

Activities certified for physicians may also be eligible for American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points.

In these cases, upon successful completion of the activity, ABIM Diplomates may opt in for their ABIM MOC points to be transmitted to ABIM via the ACCME PARS system.

Some physician activities may also be accredited for American Academy of Family Physician (AAFP) credit. In these cases, this will appear in the accreditation statement and on the CME certificate.

Any other professional (not registered as a physician) will receive a letter of completion (LOC) certificate.

The CME Tracker shows MOC points and CME credits as well as LOC credits for physicians. LOCs are issued for credits earned by a physician for activities that were not certified for physician CME.

If an activity is certified for nurse CE, then nurses will receive a CE certificate for ANCC nurse CE credit.

The CE Tracker shows CE credits and LOC credits for nurses. LOCs are issued for credits earned by a nurse for activities that were not certified for nurse CE.

If an activity is certified for pharmacist CE, then pharmacists will receive a CE Statement of Credit that explains that their ACPE credit will be transmitted to CPE Monitor.

The CE Tracker shows CE credits and LOC credits for pharmacists. LOCs are issued for credits earned by a pharmacist for activities that were not certified for pharmacist CE.

Any professional other than one whom an activity is certified for will receive an LOC which will state the credit for which the activity was designated. You will need to check with your individual licensing board or certification organization to determine whether the credit will be accepted.

If an activity is certified for physicians, the LOC will state that the activity was designated AMA PRA Category 1 credit, as many other professions can use credit for activities designated for AMA PRA Category 1.

If the activity is not certified for physicians, than the LOC will contain the credit designation statement for the applicable credit that the activity is certified for (ie, ANCC or ACPE).

The Credit Type column in all trackers shows the credit type for each activity.

If you are already a Medscape member and would like to log in via a link (ie, without a password), see Login Assistance.

If you would like to change your password, see Password Assistance.

Please note Password requirements -8 character minimum.No punctuation; only letters & numbers are accepted.

Also,please note: At one time, Medscape required user names for sign-in. Currently, Medscape accepts either a registered email address or a user name for sign-in. If you are having difficulty remembering a past user name, it may be helpful to recall that user names needed to be at least five characters in length and that special characters and capital letters were acceptable.

You may also be interested in Sign in Assistance.

Medscapedoes not submit your certificates or credits for you. You will need to print them and submit them to your licensing board or institution.

Consult is a crowdsourced community of physicians and medical students. Community members often post cases while their patients' treatment is ongoing, seeking clinical guidance from peers. We encourage Consult contributors to provide updates and outcomes whenever possible.

Here are some suggestions for finding case updates and outcomes on Consult:

FOLLOW A CASE: If you use the Medscape App and follow a case, you will receive push notifications on your phone when there are comments on these cases. (Please note: Currently, you will receive a notification for every reply. To turn off notifications, unfollow the case.)

FEATURED TAB: Look for the case in the "Featured" feed. We add "RESOLVED" or "UPDATE" when a case author has posted an outcome, and we duplicate the response at the top of the comment thread. This tab also features cases with expert recommendations.

AUTHOR PROFILE: Visit the case author's profile (click on the name) and look in the "Responses" feed to find updates and outcomes on specific cases from that author. If you follow an author, you can also find posts by navigating to your profile and then selecting the author's name from your "Following" list.

ASK THE AUTHOR: Comment on a post, requesting that the author add an outcome.

If you are trying to register but are unable to locate your specialty, please look in the category called "other."

If you are still unable to locate your specialty, please reach out to Medscape Member Support by clicking the Contact Us button at the top of this page.

In the meantime, in order to continue with the registration process, we suggest selecting a specialty as close as possible to your own.

The specialties available for registration purposes are not wholly representative of the medical and research content available on our site.

To access the Drugs & Diseases reference databases without an Internet connection, you can download the content right to your smart device.

To initially download the content, you will need to connect to WiFi. (using data could be costly) Launch the Medscape app, Click on the 'Hamburger Bar' (top left/three lines) and select 'Data Updates'. From here, please tap on 'Download Clinical Reference'.

Once this is complete, you will no longer need an Internet connection to access Medscape.

To unsubscribe from survey mailings, please refer to the last email invitation you received.

On the bottom of the email, click the "unsubscribe" link.

Please note that you may continue to receive mailings for a short period while your request to unsubscribe is being processed.

*Please keep in mind, there are other survey types sent out from Medscape. Example, there are also CME Education surveys, Marketing Surveys etc. Please unsubscribe from each survey type to ensure they cease.

In accordance with tax laws, Medscape is required to send Tax Form 1099 to anyone who has reached or exceeded the $600 claimed (not earned) honoraria threshold per calendar year. Claimed means you clicked claim and received the Amazon code.

We will require a completed W-9 form as soon as one attempts to claim over $500 within a calendar year. Once you reach this threshold and try to claim, you should see a W-9 pop up before it will give you your honoraria.

Memberhas earned $500 about to claim $50 =will be prompted with W9 form

Memberhas earned $400 about to claim $50 =will NOT be prompted with W9 form

Member has earned $480 about to claim $25 =will be prompted with W9 form

If you have any questions regarding the total honoraria you have earned this calendar year and/or other tax-related questions, please get in touch with us via the Contact Us button on this page.

Update: 2018 1099 forms were mailed 1/22/19. The 2019 1099 mailing date will post here by Feb of 2020.

The Medscape app is primarily a drug, disease, and treatment reference resource, with point-of-care decision-making tools. Features include a pill identifier, drug and drug-interaction lookup, medical calculators, procedure reference, and more.

UPDATE- WE RETIRED THE MEDPULSE APP, SINCE NEWS IS NOW AVAILABLE WITH OUR CORE MEDSCAPE APP. The MedPulse app is devoted to our award-winning medical news and expert perspectives, with plenty of graphics. The MedPulse app allows for more personalization so that you can stay on top of the specialties and topics you're most interested in.

You may register for a free account by visiting Medscape.com and clicking on the Register link in the upper right corner of the page.

Complete the registration form and then click Submit.

If you have filled in all of the fields successfully, you will be sent to a page where you may select your email newsletter preferences.

If clicking Submit does not bring you to the newsletter selections, please scroll up to determine the error(s) and make the corrections.

You can also register on Medscape using your smartphone via your Android or iOS mobile browser. Better yet, download our app via the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Please note:

Password requirements -8 character minimum.No punctuation; only letters & numbers are accepted.

Having trouble? Please click the 'Contact Us' button on this page. We are here to help.

Medscape offers three types of credit through CME/CE activities. We offer credit to physicians (AMA/PRA Category 1), registered nurses (ANCC contact hours), and pharmacists (ACPE contact hours).

If you do not fall into one of these categories, you will receive a letter of completion (LOC) that identifies the hours of instruction and credit type for which the activity was designated.

Medscape cannot guarantee that these credits will be accepted by your state board. Please contact your professional licensing board before participating in an activity to determine whether they will accept these credits.

The Medscape App offers you the flexibility to customize the content preference by specialty.

However, subspecialties are not available on App because there is limited content.

You can change the preference content of the application to view news articles and CME activities specific to that specialty by following the steps below:

From the upper left corner of the Medscape App select the ‘profile icon’

Select Content Preferences

Select your specialty

Note: By default, the application displays headlines for the specialty you have noted in your online medscape website profile.

All Medscape Drugs & Diseases editorial content is independent from advertising.

The reference disease and procedure articles are authored and reviewed by clinical faculty from leading academic medical centers and hospital systems.

These chief editors and authors work with the Medscape editorial team to ensure the currency and accuracy of content that is evidence-based, unbiased, and sourced from and linked to recent primary literature from top-tier journals and medical societies.

Drug monographs are proprietary, compiled by a PharmD staff and based on FDA approvals, and are updated within 48 hours of an approval.

Authors and chief editors of Drugs & Diseases condition articles have their affiliations and disclosure statements listed under the article title.

Original-source publications are cited within the article and listed in the references at the bottom of the table of contents, with links to MEDLINE abstracts and full-text publications when available.

The Medscape Reference Cases are a series of real patient presentations distributed via email to healthcare practitioners around the world. Our mission is to educate health care providers regarding the clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, and complications of a wide range of disorders in all areas of medicine.

Examples of Cases:

Progressive Weakness and Numbness With a Long History of Back Pain

Mysterious Bruising, Weakness, Back Pain, and Gum Bleeds

Each Case should include the following:

A clinical patient presentation with a broad appeal to a general clinical audience that falls into one or more of these categories:

A commonly encountered medical condition (eg, cholecystitis, appendicitis, incarcerated hernia)

A relatively less common, but "cannot miss" diagnosis associated with a common presentation (eg, aortic dissection for a patient with chest pain; epiploic appendagitis in a patient with right lower quadrant pain)

An interesting medical condition (eg, herpes zoster oticus, pneumatosis intestinalis)

A regional disease or condition (eg, dracunculiasis, coccidioidomycosis)

Associated multimedia resources with sufficient resolution:

Digitized imaging studies, such as a plain radiographs, ultrasound images, or a CT scan image

Digital photographs of physical examination findings

Digitized or scanned electrocardiograms

Video clips of ultrasound examinations or physical examination findings

Digitized histopathology slides

A discussion of the disease, syndrome, or condition, including:

A general description of how the diagnosis was made

Epidemiology of the condition

Typical and atypical clinical presentations

Useful diagnostic studies

The differential diagnosis

Complications associated with the condition

Typical and atypical treatment

Clinical course of the patient presented in the case

Possible responses within 4 weeks of submission

Accepted without revisions

Accepted with revisions

If your case receives an "accepted with revisions" status, you will be expected to make the necessary changes as suggested by the medical editor of the case. Generally, your case will be published within a 2- to 3-month time frame, but the editors reserve the right to suspend the case for an indefinite period.

Not Accepted

If your case is initially not accepted, you may resubmit if you modify your case to more closely comply with the guidelines or address specific issues with the case.

The decision to suspend a case may be made for a number of reasons, such as if another case on a similar topic was recently published or if there are difficulties or delays in obtaining copyright clearances or in processing the multimedia used in the case.

Submit cases or questions

Please send your note of interest, details of your case submission, or questions to [email protected]

Please click here

Based on feedback from UK physicians, we are delighted to inform you that Medscape launched a local UK section. In addition to the news and resources you have come to expect from Medscape, we will now also deliver:

Breaking and In-Depth UK Medical News- The latest clinical updates, journal highlights, and conference news, focused on what’s important to UK physicians.

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