Physician Contract Glossary · Restrictive Covenants
Confidentiality Covenant
A confidentiality covenant is your binding promise to keep the practice's confidential information private.
A confidentiality covenant is the formal promise that anchors a non-disclosure clause: you agree to keep defined confidential information private during and after employment, and to return or destroy it when you leave. It overlaps heavily with non-disclosure terms and, like them, lives or dies on how confidential is defined and how long the obligation lasts.
Watch the scope and the survival period, and make sure the covenant does not silently bar you from normal practice. Confirm what you must return at departure so you are not later accused of retaining confidential material.
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