We want INFERMed to be a respectful, evidence-focused research and engineering project. Contributors are expected to collaborate professionally, assume good intent, and keep discussion grounded in the quality, safety, and reproducibility of the work.
- Be respectful and constructive in issues, pull requests, reviews, and discussions.
- Focus criticism on ideas, evidence, implementation quality, and risk, not on people.
- Be careful with medical, pharmacovigilance, and patient-safety language.
- Clearly separate evidence, interpretation, and uncertainty.
- Respect licensing boundaries for datasets, models, publications, and third-party APIs.
- Do not post secrets, API keys, private health information, or proprietary licensed data.
- Harassment, insults, intimidation, or discriminatory language.
- Publishing private information without explicit permission.
- Submitting or encouraging unsafe medical advice as definitive clinical guidance.
- Misrepresenting generated outputs, experimental results, source provenance, or dataset permissions.
- Uploading restricted datasets or credentials to public branches, issues, discussions, or pull requests.
INFERMed is a research and decision-support prototype. It is not a substitute for licensed clinical judgment, approved labeling, institutional policy, or patient-specific care. Contributors should avoid presenting model output as final medical advice.
If you see behavior that violates this code, open a private communication channel with the project maintainers. Reports should include the relevant links, screenshots, or context needed to understand the issue. Maintainers should respond proportionally and protect reporters from retaliation.
Maintainers may remove comments, close issues, request changes, reject contributions, restrict participation, or take other reasonable action to protect the project and its contributors.