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1 Educational & Medical Disclaimer (Not Medical Advice)

Tenderpoints™ Hub and its associated podcasts (including Tenderpoints and Tenderpoints: ED Shift™) are designed strictly for educational, informational, and medical board-examination preparation purposes. The materials provided across this platform—including question bank items, audio episodes, clinical summaries, study notes, medical glossaries, visual atlas cases, and osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) review resources—do not constitute medical advice, clinical diagnosis, treatment recommendations, or professional consultation.

Medical knowledge, clinical guidelines, and pharmacological parameters are subject to continuous evolution. Healthcare students, trainees, and practicing clinicians must always independently verify diagnostic criteria, drug dosages, contraindications, and institutional management protocols with primary medical literature, licensed physicians, and current authoritative clinical sources. Never disregard, avoid, or delay seeking professional medical advice or emergency care because of information accessed on this website.

2 Emergency Decision Rules, Bedside Calculators & Pharmacological Dosing

All interactive clinical calculators, weight-based pharmacological dosers (including Rapid Sequence Intubation / RSI dosers), ACLS code cart quick push references, resuscitation quick ribbons, and clinical decision algorithms (e.g., HEART score, Wells DVT/PE criteria, Canadian CT Head, PERC, Centor, Ottawa rules) provided on Tenderpoints Hub are strictly educational simulations and study references.

These utilities are not cleared medical devices, point-of-care clinical decision support systems, or acute dosing directives. They are not designed for acute bedside resuscitation, critical emergency management, or patient care. Medication administration, airway management, and acute clinical interventions must always be directed by licensed physician clinical judgment, direct patient assessment, and institutional hospital policies.

3 Question Bank & Practice Vignettes

Question bank items, answer explanations, clinical vignettes, and practice drills on Tenderpoints Hub are original educational study items created, curated, and audited for board review and active learning reinforcement. They do not represent official past, active, or retired examination items from the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME®), the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME®), or the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). While audited for pedagogical quality, practice questions must not be treated as clinical practice guidelines.

4 Score Predictor & Deficit Analytics

Score estimations, percentile approximations, board readiness indicators, and deficit projections generated by the Performance Dashboard and the COMSAE Score Analyzer are mathematical simulations based on aggregated public score distributions and historical student performance metrics. They are provided solely for personal self-assessment and study planning. They do not constitute official score assessments, formal score reports, or guarantees of passing or achieving any specific score on actual COMLEX-USA® or USMLE® examinations.

5 Visual Medical Atlas & Clinical Imagery

Photographic gross pathology specimens, histopathology photomicrographs, and radiographic images in the Visual Medical Atlas and question vignettes are displayed exclusively for educational pattern recognition and academic instruction. They are not diagnostic-quality medical images and must not be used for primary radiological or pathological interpretation or clinical patient care.

6 Third-Party Trademarks & Fair Use

All product names, examination names, logos, and registered trademarks cited across this website are property of their respective owners:

• COMLEX-USA®, COMAT®, COMSAE®, and NBOME® are registered trademarks of the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners, Inc.
• USMLE® is a joint program of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME®).
• ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians) and WikiEM are referenced for educational attribution and clinical emergency medicine study.
• Audio episodes and study discussions from Divine Intervention Podcasts and biostatistics lectures from Randy Neil, MD are referenced for open educational attribution; the underlying original lectures remain the property of their respective creators.

Tenderpoints Hub is an independent, non-commercial educational initiative. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the NBME, NBOME, FSMB, ACEP, WikiEM, or any other testing or commercial educational organization.