Med-MCQA

Overview

MedMCQA is a large-scale multiple-choice question answering dataset designed to address real-world medical entrance exam questions. It contains over 194K questions covering diverse medical topics from Indian medical entrance examinations (AIIMS, NEET-PG).

Task Description

Task Type: Medical Knowledge Multiple-Choice QA
Input: Medical question with 4 answer choices
Output: Correct answer letter
Domain: Clinical medicine, basic sciences, healthcare

Key Features

Over 194,000 medical exam questions
Real questions from AIIMS and NEET-PG exams
21 medical subjects covered (anatomy, pharmacology, pathology, etc.)
Expert-verified correct answers with explanations
Tests medical knowledge comprehension and clinical reasoning

Evaluation Notes

Default configuration uses 0-shot evaluation
Evaluates on validation split
Simple accuracy metric
Train split available for few-shot learning

Properties

Property	Value
Benchmark Name	`med_mcqa`
Dataset ID	extraordinarylab/medmcqa
Paper	N/A
Tags	`Knowledge`, `MCQ`
Metrics	`acc`
Default Shots	0-shot
Evaluation Split	`validation`
Train Split	`train`

Data Statistics

Metric	Value
Total Samples	4,183
Prompt Length (Mean)	374.31 chars
Prompt Length (Min/Max)	232 / 1004 chars

Sample Example

Subset: default

{
  "input": [
    {
      "id": "9bf68985",
      "content": "Answer the following multiple choice question. The entire content of your response should be of the following format: 'ANSWER: [LETTER]' (without quotes) where [LETTER] is one of A,B,C,D.\n\nWhich of the following is not true for myelinated ner ... [TRUNCATED] ... ugh myelinated fibers is slower than non-myelinated fibers\nB) Membrane currents are generated at nodes of Ranvier\nC) Saltatory conduction of impulses is seen\nD) Local anesthesia is effective only when the nerve is not covered by myelin sheath"
    }
  ],
  "choices": [
    "Impulse through myelinated fibers is slower than non-myelinated fibers",
    "Membrane currents are generated at nodes of Ranvier",
    "Saltatory conduction of impulses is seen",
    "Local anesthesia is effective only when the nerve is not covered by myelin sheath"
  ],
  "target": "A",
  "id": 0,
  "group_id": 0,
  "metadata": {}
}

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Prompt Template

Prompt Template:

Answer the following multiple choice question. The entire content of your response should be of the following format: 'ANSWER: [LETTER]' (without quotes) where [LETTER] is one of {letters}.

{question}

{choices}

Usage

Using CLI

evalscope eval \
    --model YOUR_MODEL \
    --api-url OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL \
    --api-key EMPTY_TOKEN \
    --datasets med_mcqa \
    --limit 10  # Remove this line for formal evaluation

Using Python

from evalscope import run_task
from evalscope.config import TaskConfig

task_cfg = TaskConfig(
    model='YOUR_MODEL',
    api_url='OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL',
    api_key='EMPTY_TOKEN',
    datasets=['med_mcqa'],
    limit=10,  # Remove this line for formal evaluation
)

run_task(task_cfg=task_cfg)

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