# MedPaLM addresses multiple-choice questions and questions posed by medical professionals and non-professionals.

*genai · news · 2023-01-04 · Interesting Engineering*

## Key points

- Med-PaLM introduces the new HealthSearchQA dataset with 3,375 frequently asked consumer medical questions.
- Med-PaLM achieves 67% on MedQA USMLE, improving prior benchmarks by over 17%.
- 92.6% of Med-PaLM responses matched clinician-generated answers, closely aligning with human performance.
- Only 5.8% of Med-PaLM answers risked negative consequences, lower than clinicians and Flan-PaLM.

**Companies:** Google
**Countries:** USA

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