Last reviewed: 30 September 2026 by the Kinase Medical Team.
Who writes and reviews Kinase content
Kinase question explanations, concept pages, image-atlas entries and exam guides are written and reviewed by the Kinase Medical Team. We publish under the team name rather than individual bylines, and we do not display invented authors, credentials, testimonials or ratings. Every page carries the date its facts were last checked.
Our content is built for one purpose: helping candidates prepare for NEET PG, INI-CET and the UPSC Combined Medical Services examination. That shapes what we write — high-yield facts, how a topic is tested, and the traps that cost marks — but it never lowers the bar for accuracy. A fact that we cannot verify is left out.
Our source hierarchy
We use tier-1 sources only, and we check a fact against the source itself — the exact sentence or table on the page — not against a search snippet or a summary.
Exam facts (dates, pattern, eligibility, counselling)
Exam information comes from the body that conducts or regulates the exam, and nowhere else:
- →NBEMS — NEET PG notices, information bulletins and results
- →AIIMS New Delhi — INI-CET prospectus, notices and results
- →UPSC — Combined Medical Services examination notices
- →MCC — All-India PG counselling schedules and seat matrices
- →NMC — Regulations on eligibility, internship and postgraduate education
When an official notice and an older page disagree, the latest official notice wins. Dates and fees on the site are kept in one central place in our code so that a correction reaches every page at once.
Medical content
- →StatPearls and other books on the NCBI Bookshelf
- →Standard textbooks (for example Harrison's, Robbins, and the standard Indian subject texts)
- →WHO, CDC and NICE guidance
- →MoHFW and ICMR guidelines and national programme documents for Indian practice
- →Radiopaedia for imaging signs
- →DermNet for skin conditions
- →Peer-reviewed reviews and guidelines indexed in PubMed / PubMed Central
Numbers, normal ranges, classifications, “most common” statements and drug facts are confirmed in at least two independent tier-1 sources. Where good sources genuinely differ — normal ranges vary between laboratories and methods, and some textbooks define a cut-off differently — we say so and show the range with its source instead of picking one silently. Sources are listed on each page, and we write in our own words.
What we never use as a source
- ✕Coaching-institute websites, notes or question banks
- ✕Forums and Q&A sites (Reddit, Quora, Telegram channels)
- ✕Unreferenced blogs and AI-generated pages
- ✕Wikipedia as evidence — at most it is a route to the tier-1 reference it cites
Previous-year questions (PYQs) are recalls
NBEMS and AIIMS do not publish their question papers. The PYQs on Kinase are memory-based recalls reconstructed from what candidates remember after each session. We reword stems and options rather than reproduce them, and a recall can differ from the question as it actually appeared. What we do verify is the medicine: the answer key and the explanation of every question are checked against tier-1 sources, and a question whose key is disputed is corrected or withdrawn. See our methodology for how recalls are collected and tagged.
“Last reviewed” dates and updates
The “Last reviewed” date on a page is the day a member of the team actually re-checked its facts against the sources — we do not change it for cosmetic edits. Exam-fact pages are updated when the conducting body publishes a new notice. Medical pages are re-checked when a source they rely on changes (for example a new guideline or drug approval), when a reader reports a problem, and as part of our regular review of older pages.
Corrections
If you think something on Kinase is wrong — a fact, a date, an answer key or an image — tell us. Use Report on the question in the app (your reports are tracked under My Reports) or email support@kinaseapp.com with the page link and, if you can, the source you are relying on. Every report is checked against tier-1 sources. If we were wrong, we fix the content, update the review date, and correct related questions and pages that share the same error.
Medical disclaimer
Kinase is an exam-preparation and medical-education service. Nothing on this site or in the app is medical advice, and it must not be used to diagnose or treat any patient. Clinical decisions belong with qualified clinicians using current local guidelines. Exam facts are summaries — the official notice from the conducting body is always the final word.
Image licensing
We only publish images we have the right to use: images we created, and third-party images released under CC0, public domain, CC BY or CC BY-SA licences — mostly from Wikimedia Commons and NLM Open-i. Before an image is used, we open its file page and confirm the author and licence. Images marked non-commercial (NC), no-derivatives (ND), “fair use” or with an unclear licence are not used, and we never copy images from textbooks, journals behind a paywall or coaching material.
Every third-party image is credited directly beneath it with the author, a link to the source file page and the licence, as CC BY and CC BY-SA require. Clinical images must show exactly the finding they are labelled with; an image that only loosely matches is left out. If you hold rights in an image on Kinase and believe it is used incorrectly, email support@kinaseapp.com and we will review it promptly.