What it measures

Composite clinical benchmark combining MedQA, MedMCQA, PubMedQA, MMLU clinical topics, LiveQA, MedicationQA, and consumer queries.

Reading the measurement

Accuracy is only part of the picture. Inspect unsupported answers, abstentions, language coverage and the evidence available to the model. A confident response can still be wrong, and a broad average can hide a specialist gap.

Published evaluation

Published accuracy on this constituent dataset. MultiMedQA is a suite, so component datasets remain separate; HealthSearchQA free-form response assessment is not substituted.

Where this fits in an evaluation suite

Read accuracy together with error and abstention rates. Domain averages can hide language gaps, specialist failures, and poorly calibrated confidence.

Start with a capability hypothesis, then choose a second test with a different failure mode. Keep the checkpoint, reasoning effort, agent tools, sampling policy, and scoring procedure fixed when measuring a training intervention. Record failures and missing outputs in the denominator.

A reproducible comparison

Published accuracy on this constituent dataset. MultiMedQA is a suite, so component datasets remain separate; HealthSearchQA free-form response assessment is not substituted.

Publish the exact run configuration, item coverage, score units, and available uncertainty. If a source supplies only an aggregate or a single run, preserve that limit. A new model name or a rounded score alone does not establish a capability improvement.

PRIMARY EVIDENCE & FURTHER READING

  1. Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge — published result table ↗

    Singhal, Karan, Azizi, Shekoofeh, Tu, Tao, Mahdavi, S. Sara, Wei, Jason, Chung, Hyung Won et al. · 2022

    All 30 authors

    Singhal, Karan, Azizi, Shekoofeh, Tu, Tao, Mahdavi, S. Sara, Wei, Jason, Chung, Hyung Won, Scales, Nathan, Tanwani, Ajay, Cole-Lewis, Heather, Pfohl, Stephen, Payne, Perry, Seneviratne, Martin, Gamble, Paul, Kelly, Chris, Scharli, Nathaneal, Chowdhery, Aakanksha, Mansfield, Philip, Arcas, Blaise Aguera y, Webster, Dale, Corrado, Greg S., Matias, Yossi, Chou, Katherine, Gottweis, Juraj, Tomasev, Nenad, Liu, Yun, Rajkomar, Alvin, Barral, Joelle, Semturs, Christopher, Karthikesalingam, Alan, Natarajan, Vivek

Reviewed 2026-10-27. Explanation and interpretation by RLTasks. Benchmark ownership remains with its original authors.