Community Guidelines
Continuum Health AI is a professional platform for healthcare mentorship. These guidelines set the expectations that make it safe and productive for everyone. By creating an account, you agree to follow them.
🚨 This is not a platform for patient care
Continuum Health AI is for professional development and mentorship between healthcare professionals. It is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
If you are a patient seeking medical care, please contact your physician or — in an emergency — call 911 (US) or your local emergency number.
⚠️ Never share patient health information (PHI)
Do not include identifiable patient information in your CV, messages, mentor pitch, bio, research interests, or any other field. This includes names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, images that could identify a patient, or specific-enough case details that a patient could be recognized.
Sharing PHI on this platform is a HIPAA violation that puts both you and Continuum Health AI at legal risk. Accounts that share PHI will be suspended. For case-based discussions, use properly de-identified examples following your institution's IRB guidelines.
What Continuum is for
- Career guidance (residency match, fellowship, attending job search, academic path)
- Research collaboration and mentorship
- Professional skill development (leadership, teaching, grant writing, publications)
- Peer connection and community across healthcare disciplines
- Specialty selection and exploration
What Continuum is not for
- Giving or receiving medical advice about specific patients
- Clinical decision-making for active cases
- Sharing patient health information (PHI) in any form
- Selling products, services, or recruiting for commercial purposes
- Harassment, dating, or non-professional solicitation
Professional conduct expected
You are expected to behave here the way you'd behave in a professional setting at your institution.
- Be respectful. No harassment, discrimination, slurs, or personal attacks. Mentorship is built on trust — protect it.
- Represent yourself honestly. Your credentials, institution, specialty, and training should be accurate. Misrepresentation erodes the platform's value for everyone.
- Respect confidentiality. What's shared between a mentor and mentee stays between them. Do not screenshot or share private conversations without consent.
- Set appropriate boundaries. Mentorship is a professional relationship — maintain the same boundaries you would in an institution-based mentoring program.
- Honor your commitments. If you accept a mentorship, follow through. If circumstances change, say so — don't ghost.
Scope and boundaries for mentors
Mentors are not supervising physicians, attendings of record, or a substitute for your mentee's own professional judgment. Specifically:
- Share general principles, frameworks, and experience — not specific patient-care recommendations.
- Do not review radiographic images, labs, or charts for clinical decision-making.
- Do not prescribe, recommend medications, or suggest dosing for real patients.
- If a mentee asks a clinical question about an active case, redirect them to their supervising physician, institution, or local protocols.
- You are not liable for career outcomes — your role is to share perspective, not guarantee results.
Scope and boundaries for mentees
- Your mentor's advice is input, not a mandate. Use your own judgment, especially on high-stakes decisions.
- Do not share identifiable patient information when asking case-based questions — use de-identified examples.
- For active clinical care, consult your attending, program director, or institution — not a mentor you've met through Continuum.
- Be respectful of your mentor's time. They're volunteering here.
What gets you suspended or banned
- Sharing PHI (any identifiable patient information in any field or message).
- Harassment — sexual, racial, personal, or otherwise — toward any user.
- Misrepresenting credentials (claiming degrees, specialties, or institutions you don't have).
- Spam or commercial solicitation unrelated to the professional mentorship purpose of the platform.
- Providing specific clinical advice that the recipient appears to be applying to real patient care.
- Repeat abuse reports from other members.
First incidents may result in a warning or temporary suspension. Serious or repeated violations result in permanent removal. Appeals go to [email protected].
How to report a user
Every profile and match card has a Report this user option. Use it whenever you see behavior that violates these guidelines. Reports are reviewed by Continuum staff — not by other users. We'll never disclose who filed a report to the person being reported.
For urgent safety issues, email [email protected] with "URGENT" in the subject line.
A note on good-faith disagreement
Mentors and mentees won't always agree — on specialty choice, career paths, research directions, or anything else. That's healthy. Honest disagreement expressed respectfully is not harassment. The report mechanism is for behavior that violates these guidelines, not for feedback you didn't want to hear.
Changes to these guidelines
We'll update these as the platform evolves and as we learn from the community. Material changes will be announced to users. Continued use of Continuum after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised guidelines.
Last updated: April 2026. Questions? Contact us.