Academic Disclaimer

Last updated: 12 May 2026

1. What MedQBank is

MedQBank is a study tool — a question bank, flashcards, a conversational tutor, and a few interactive simulators — aligned with the subjects on the UWA medical timetable. It is not:

• A replacement for lectures, tutorials, practicals, or clinical sessions
• An official UWA resource, course material, or curriculum
• Reviewed, approved, validated, or endorsed by UWA or any of its faculty
• Peer-reviewed in any academic sense
• A substitute for textbooks, reading lists, or guidance from staff and supervisors

2. No promise about your grades

Using MedQBank does not guarantee any particular grade, exam score, or academic outcome. Academic performance depends on many things — study habits, comprehension, engagement with the curriculum, exam technique — and MedQBank is one tool among many. Use it as part of a balanced study routine.

3. Content may contain errors

The questions, explanations, flashcards, mnemonics and reference material on MedQBank are produced from a mix of:

• The creator's own medical knowledge
• Drafts generated with the help of large language models, reviewed by hand
• Interpretation of UWA lecture material

Despite a serious effort to check accuracy against authoritative sources, errors do still slip through. Treat anything you would cite back in an assessment as a hypothesis to verify, not as an authoritative source.

4. About the conversational tutor

The chat tutor is powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6, routed through the Vercel AI Gateway. It exists to help you understand topics, walk through fictional cases, and rehearse for exams. A few things to keep in mind:

• It is educational, not clinical. It does not diagnose, dose drugs, or advise on real patient care. Anything that looks like clinical guidance should be treated as practice scaffolding, not as a recommendation.
• Do not paste real patient information into it. Use fictional names and changed details when working through cases.
• It can be confidently wrong. Large language models invent things from time to time. Verify anything important before relying on it.
• Every message is screened. A separate model (Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5) checks each message for signs of distress and for real-patient context. If a conversation suggests you are struggling, a banner with Lifeline, Beyond Blue, and UWA Counselling details will appear. The screen is a safety net, not a substitute for proper support.

5. About the interactive simulators

The pressure–volume loop, hepatitis serology and lipid transport tools are simplified teaching models. They illustrate how a few variables interact; they do not reflect the full clinical picture. Use them to build intuition for a concept. Do not use their output to inform care.

6. Errors and how to flag them

Every question has a flag icon. Press it if a question looks wrong and the question will be excluded from scoring for all students until it's reviewed. The flag is the fastest way to fix an error and is more useful than email, because it surfaces the problem in context and notifies your classmates that a question is under review.

7. You decide how to use this

You are responsible for:

• How and how much you rely on MedQBank in your study routine
• Verifying anything important against authoritative, current sources
• Your own time management and academic decisions
• Using MedQBank in line with UWA's academic integrity policies

8. Independent student project

MedQBank is built by a single UWA medical student. It is not an official UWA resource, not reviewed by faculty, and not affiliated with any department, society, or staff member. The creator is a fellow student sharing a study tool — not providing professional medical education.

9. Lecture-derived content

Some content is derived from or inspired by UWA lecture material. The creator considers this use to fall within the fair dealing for research or study exception in Section 40 of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). In particular:

• Lecture material has been substantially transformed into question-and-answer formats, flashcards, mnemonics and study aids — there is no verbatim reproduction of slides or notes.
• The purpose is strictly non-commercial; MedQBank is free and generates no revenue.
• Access is restricted to UWA students and staff — the same community that has access to the original material.
• The use does not substitute for or compete with the original lecture materials, which remain available only through UWA's LMS.

Under Section 40(2) of the Act, the fairness of a dealing is judged against several factors, including the purpose and character of the use, the nature of the work, the amount and substantiality of the part taken, and the effect on the market. The creator believes those factors are satisfied here, but ultimately whether a dealing is “fair” is a question of fact for a court.

All lecture-derived content is provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. You must not download, scrape, copy, redistribute, or share content from MedQBank outside the platform.

10. Medical information

Nothing on MedQBank — questions, explanations, tutor responses, or simulator output — constitutes medical advice or clinical guidance. Defer to qualified clinicians and current evidence-based guidelines for any clinical decision.

11. Acknowledgement

By using MedQBank you confirm that you have read and understood this Disclaimer, the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, and the Cookie Policy. You accept that MedQBank is a study aid and that you are responsible for your own academic outcomes.