What is Curbside?

Curbside enables physicians and surgeons to collaborate to solve clinical problems and to have those solutions grow into a large repository of actionable medical knowledge.

Site guide

All you need to know about Curbside is the following:

Curbside is about getting answers

Come here to ask and answer questions about medical fields you are involved in. You can ask for help with a difficult clinical problem or a issue of importance to the medical community. It is a particularly useful place to get help from colleagues regarding “grey area” patient care decisions where little or no robust evidence exists or where published guidelines may be outdated.

What kinds of questions can I ask?

Any question on any aspect of your practice which could be of interest to doctors and medical students is welcome, provided that the question is:

• detailed and specific
• written clearly and simply

Before posting a question, please consider the following:

• Do not post duplicate questions. Please search the site for potentially similar questions before posting. Not only will this avoid duplicates, but you may find your answer before even posting a question!
• Do not post multiple unrelated questions within the same post. Although a single post may contain related sub-questions, use separate posts for questions that are not directly related to each other.

Participate and build your reputation for expertise.

Every action you take on Curbside can help you gain reputation points, showcasing your expertise! There is a real-time leaderboard for all users available here. As you are browsing through the site, you are encouraged to "up-vote" questions, answers and comments that you find pertinent:

The main ways of gaining reputation points are:

• Answering a question that gets picked as "correct" or gets positive votes
• Accepting an answer to your question

Please note you can also lose reputation if your answer or comment gets down-voted or reported.

You can consult the real-time leaderboard from the "users" menu on the top right:

We all benefit from your contribution

When you see good questions or helpful answers and comments, vote them up!

This will increase the search ranking of good content, as well as encourage quality participation on Curbside.

If you ask a question and receive a helpful reply, mark the answer as "accepted".

This will increase both your and the author of the answer's reputation, as well as help others find the answers to their questions!

If you find misinformation, vote it down. When you do so, please add a comment to indicate what is the issue.

Thank you for helping us build Curbside into a reference in the medical field!