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MedMCQA
MedMCQA is a large-scale, Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) dataset designed to address real-world medical entrance exam questions.
MedMCQA has 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.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) | MedMCQA | Med-PaLM 2 (ER) Test Set (Acc-%) 0.723 | Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with... | m42-health/med42 | 22 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
8 shown of 8 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 144. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDITRON-70B: Scaling Medical Pretraining for Large Language Models | 1 | 1 | 27 Nov 2023 | ran 9 of 14 samples (5 unverified) |
| BioMedGPT: Open Multimodal Generative Pre-trained Transformer for BioMedicine | 1 | 1 | 18 Aug 2023 | not harvested |
| Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models | 1 | 3 | 16 May 2023 | not harvested |
| Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge | 1 | 8 | 26 Dec 2022 | not harvested |
| Galactica: A Large Language Model for Science | 1 | 3 | 16 Nov 2022 | ran 0 of 2 samples (2 unverified) |
| Variational Open-Domain Question Answering | 2 | 1 | 23 Sep 2022 | ran 0 of 1 samples (1 unverified) |
| Can large language models reason about medical questions? | 1 | 1 | 17 Jul 2022 | ran 0 of 10 samples (10 unverified) |
| MedMCQA : A Large-scale Multi-Subject Multi-Choice Dataset for Medical domain Question Answering | 1 | 4 | 27 Mar 2022 | ran 0 of 1 samples (1 unverified) |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
4 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
No licence recorded in the archive. Absence here is not a statement about the dataset's terms.
Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
- MedMCQA
- MedMCQA (with Context)
2 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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