MedMCQA : A Large-scale Multi-Subject Multi-Choice Dataset for Medical domain Question Answering

Abstract

This paper introduces MedMCQA, a new large-scale, Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) dataset designed to address real-world medical entrance exam questions. More than 194k high-quality AIIMS \& NEET PG entrance exam MCQs covering 2.4k healthcare topics and 21 medical subjects are collected with an average token length of 12.77 and high topical diversity. Each sample contains a question, correct answer(s), and other options which requires a deeper language understanding as it tests the 10+ reasoning abilities of a model across a wide range of medical subjects \& topics. A detailed explanation of the solution, along with the above information, is provided in this study.

arXiv commentProceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) 2022

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