What MedGrades is, and what it is not.

MedGrades exists to help medical students, interns and junior residents prepare for ward rounds, case presentations and clinical vivas. Everything it generates is written for that purpose: to be read by a student, thought about, and then discussed with a clinical team.

It is not a clinical decision support system, not a diagnostic device, and not a medical record. It has not been evaluated or approved as any of those things, and it should not be used as one.

• It does not diagnose. A working assessment is offered as educational reasoning about the information you supplied, framed as a starting point for discussion. It is never a confirmed diagnosis.
• It does not prescribe. No drug, no dose, no route, no patient-specific treatment instruction. It explains management principles so that you can discuss them, and stops there.
• It does not make patient-specific decisions. It will not tell you whether to admit, discharge, escalate, transfuse or operate. Those decisions belong to the treating team.
• It does not answer outside its purpose. The product is restricted to medical education and declines requests that fall outside it.

The most common way a general-purpose assistant becomes dangerous in a clinical setting is by blending what it was told with what it knows, until a student cannot tell which is which. Round Ready is built to prevent that.

Where the case does not contain enough information to answer, MedGrades says so rather than filling the gap. Anything it cannot trace back to your own notes or to its reference layer is left out.

This means the product will sometimes tell you less than you wanted. That is deliberate. A fabricated finding in front of a consultant costs more than a missing one ever will, and it costs a patient more still.

Withholding is not the same as being right. The service can still be incomplete or wrong about general medical knowledge, which is why the verification step below is not optional.

Cases are mapped to curriculum topics and clinical skills, and that mapping is always presented as suggested. MedGrades records that you were exposed to a case and what the case could teach.

Whether a competency has been achieved is certified by your teacher and your institution. No application is entitled to make that judgment, and MedGrades does not claim to. Nothing in the product is a qualification, a certificate, or evidence of clinical competence.

You remain bound by your institution’s rules on patient confidentiality, by your hospital’s policies, and by Indian law. Using an educational tool does not change any of that.

Do not enter patient names, contact details, addresses, hospital registration numbers, government identifiers or photographs of faces. MedGrades works from clinical findings and does not need identity to be useful. If you are unsure whether something is safe to enter, write to hello@medgrades.in and ask before you enter it.

Treat everything MedGrades produces as preparation. Before any of it influences care, verify it with your supervising clinician and against your current institutional protocols.

If your consultant contradicts something the product said, your consultant is right and the product is a study aid that got something wrong. Please tell us when that happens.

Report it inside the application. Every generated output carries a way to flag it, which sends us the case context needed to investigate along with what you believe is incorrect.

Reporting from within the product matters, because a report there arrives with the context that makes it fixable. Clinical content is reviewed before it reaches students, and reports are how that review keeps improving after launch.

If a patient is at immediate risk, speak to your supervising clinician first. Report to us afterwards.