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MedQA-USMLE-4-options

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Commercial use
Yes
Derivatives
Yes
Redistribution
Yes
File on Mdexa
NoLink only

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Source riskExam-derived

Key facts

Domain
Clinical medicine Modern medicine
Content
Question banks and benchmarks · QA, dialogue and instruction dataOriginal dataset introduced by Jin et al.: a large-scale open domain question answering dataset from medical exams.
Size
—
Language / modality
English / Text
Publisher
GBaker
Year
2020
Expert review
—
Verification
Verified: license text seen

Commercial use of MedQA-USMLE-4-options

Commercial use: Yes. License status: Permissive.

Conditions
Attribution

Quoted statements and their sources are in MedQA-USMLE-4-options license evidence.

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Task format
Open-ended QA

Quoted from the sourceOriginal dataset introduced by Jin et al. in [What Disease does this Patient Have? A Large-scale Open Domain Question Answering Dataset from Medical Exams]Snapshot s04

Multiple-choice (single answer)
Specialty
Multi-specialty

Author-statedInferredHuman-confirmed

MedQA-USMLE-4-options license evidence 1

  1. Hugging Face card metadataPage opened
    CC-BY-4.0
    Third-party text · Hugging Face card metadatalicense: cc-by-4.0

    Statement found in snapshot s04 (readme)

    huggingface.co2026-11-12 · s04

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No upstream or downstream datasets recorded.

Known issues with MedQA-USMLE-4-options

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Preflight

Not run Runs only on ingested data; says nothing about quality.

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Citing MedQA-USMLE-4-options

Mdexa, MedQA-USMLE-4-options, https://mdexa.com/datasets/medqa-usmle-4-options/, verified 2026-11-14.
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medqa-usmle-4-options.jsonmedqa-usmle-4-options.mdcatalog.json

Change log 13
2026-11-14Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-14Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Re-adjudicated under the current rules; all machine checks still pass.
2026-11-13Added via the automated pipeline and passed all checks (gates, verbatim quotes, rule engine, two independent extractions).

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