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MedMCQA

Introduced by Ankit Pal et al. in MedMCQA : A Large-scale Multi-Subject Multi-Choice Dataset for Medical domain Question Answering27 Mar 2022 archive 2025-07-28

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)PaperCode
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.

DateSamples 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

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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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