Use of anonymous in the medicine forums

Appropriate discussions of patients and practice
While discussion about patients and clinical experiences amongst colleagues online can have botheducational and professional benefit, informal discussion about patients on public internet forums shouldbe avoided. It would be particularly inappropriate for medical professionals to make personal or derogatorycomments about their patients or colleagues. Even where doctors or medical students post anonymouslyand are confident that what they say will not breach patient confidentiality, they should consider how suchcomments will reflect on themselves as physicians or future doctors and bear in mind the potential impactthey could have on the public’s trust in the medical profession as a whole.

Hey guys,

You may have noticed there is a new function in the current medical students and Doctor's forum: the ability to anonymise posts.

We have introduced this in order to aid any med students/ doctors who want to seek advice on issues of professional conduct or worries about their current performance without the post being linked to them.

This is NOT:
* for applicants to ask questions about applying
* a place to seek medical advice (the health forum is the place to do that).

Please remember although you will be posting anonymously the same rules of confidentiality apply. Please do not identify specific trusts, staff members or patients.

How anonymous is anonymous? i.e. do mods/admins have access to the usernames/IP addresses etc? Cheers!

How anonymous is anonymous? i.e. do mods/admins have access to the usernames/IP addresses etc? Cheers!

Every time I post it seems to tick anonymous for me automatically and I have to actively un-tick it, so I keep making accidental anon posts... is this just my browser being a pain in the behind?

Nope, thats just the way the anon feature works. Its designed so you don't accidentally reveal yourself if you set up a thread anonymously, but is a bit of a pain in longer threads.

It's a real pain in the TSR Med Student Thread in particular.
We need a feature that allows you to stop this box from being automatically ticked.

For example:

Post 1 - You want to post anonymously
Post 2 - This post is defaulted to anonymous as well - good.

Later on in the thread, you may want to post like normal (especially in very large threads).

You should be able to select the option [Unmark all future posts from being automatically anonymous in this thread]

I think it would make sense if there were a pop-up to confirm whether you want to post anonymously or not

No because then the pop up will glitch out and appear all the time.
everyone will start complaining about it like they have done already

Nope, thats just the way the anon feature works. Its designed so you don't accidentally reveal yourself if you set up a thread anonymously, but is a bit of a pain in longer threads.

I'm no longer getting the option for posting anonymously in the Current Medics forum. Is there a problem with it?

(Sorry, I searched for an "Ask a Moderator" button or thread or something similar, but couldn't find one, so I have quoted you instead.)