GMC-POL-003 · Version 1.0 · 07 September 2026
Community & Professional Conduct
A trusted professional environment depends on accuracy, respect, academic integrity, patient confidentiality and attributable collaboration.
Expected conduct
- Use your real professional identity and accurate credentials.
- Separate verified facts from opinions, proposals and unverified claims.
- Credit authors, institutions and collaborators appropriately.
- Maintain patient confidentiality and appropriate de-identification.
- Communicate respectfully and disclose relevant conflicts where appropriate.
Not acceptable
- Impersonation or credential inflation.
- Harassment, discriminatory abuse, threats or targeted humiliation.
- Plagiarism, fabricated research/academic claims or manipulated evidence.
- Patient-identifiable content without lawful authority.
- Spam, deceptive promotion, unauthorized harvesting or account abuse.
Verification and corrections
Verification is claim-specific, source-specific and time-aware. Authoritative institutional or programme records prevail for official assignments. Users and institutions should have a pathway to challenge or correct inaccurate records.
Moderation
Reports should be logged, triaged proportionately and reviewed by authorized administrators. Serious safety, fraud, unlawful-conduct or professional-misrepresentation concerns may require temporary restriction while reviewed.
Report a concern
For conduct, impersonation, privacy or professional-misrepresentation concerns, email contact@genextconnect.com.