README.md

metadata

annotations_creators:
  - no-annotation
language:
  - en
language_creators:
  - found
  - other
license:
  - mit
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
pretty_name: MedQA Textbook (English) Corpus
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
source_datasets:
  - extended|medmcqa
tags:
  - medical
  - clinical medicine
  - biology
task_categories:
  - text-generation
task_ids:
  - language-modeling

Dataset Card for MedQA English Textbooks

Table of Contents

• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information

Dataset Description

Dataset Summary

MedQA includes

prepared text materials from a total of 18 English medical textbooks that have been widely used by medical students and USMLE takers" [Jin, Di, et al. 2020].

This dataset is derived from these medical textbooks (those in English), providing subsets that coincide with Medical subspecialties for use in pre-training medical LLMs with gold standard domain text.

Languages

English

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Records have the following structure

{"text": "The manifestations of acute intestinal obstruction depend on the nature of the underlying [..]", 
 "source": "textbooks/en/InternalMed_Harrison.txt"}

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

The MedQA dataset includes raw text corpus that is excluded from most of its derivations and the raw text is valuable for pre-training of medical LLMS.

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

Langchain's RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter is used for chunking and the most commonly-appearing non-ASCII characters are replaced with readable equivalents. The textbooks are then broken into separate subsets, indicated below along with the textbooks they comprise:

• Core Clinical Medicine
  • Anatomy_Gray.txt, First_Aid_Step1.txt, First_Aid_Step2.txt, Immunology_Janeway.txt, InternalMed_Harrison.txt, Neurology_Adams.txt, Obstentrics_Williams.txt, Pathoma_Husain.txt, Pediatrics_Nelson.txt, and Surgery_Schwartz.txt
• Basic Biology
  • Biochemistry_Lippincott.txt, Cell_Biology_Alberts.txt, Histology_Ross.txt, Pathology_Robbins.txt, and Physiology_Levy.txt
• Pharmacology
  • Pharmacology_Katzung.txt
• Psychiatry
  • Psichiatry_DSM-5.txt