Review and publish medical content
Access: edit or review permission for the relevant content type. Start in the moderation dashboard or the content list.
Understand the states
| State | What it means |
|---|---|
| Draft | Work is editable; not an approved replacement |
| Pending review | Submitted for a reviewer |
| Changes requested | Reviewer feedback needs attention |
| Approved | The approved revision has been published |
| Preliminary approved | Imported legacy content awaiting the current review process |
Legacy content can already be provisionally live. Its preliminary status should not be confused with a freshly approved revision.
Author workflow
- Open or create a revision.
- Complete the structured form and run the available validation/preview checks.
- Resolve errors; review warnings in clinical context.
- Save, then submit for review when the content is ready.
- If changes are requested, read the review message, revise, and resubmit.
Saving a draft is not publication. Do not ask IT to write the draft payload into the live collection.
Reviewer workflow
Open the queue, inspect the full revision and validation results, and test the clinically important paths. Request changes with a useful explanation or approve the revision when satisfied. Review capability is distinct from edit capability.
Approval is not a substitute for institutional clinical review. Check units, ranges, generated findings, request dependencies, and learner-facing wording.
What updates reach existing learners?
Medical-content approval updates the published source. A published classroom sequence keeps its content snapshot; publish a new sequence revision when the course should use changed content. Existing started learners normally remain on their assigned revision.
Questionnaire wording replacement is a separate, deliberately restricted exception described in surveys and tests. Do not use it for semantic or scoring changes.