Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in healthcare require advanced clinical skills (CS), yet current benchmarks fail to evaluate these comprehensively. We introduce MedQA-CS, an AI-SCE framework inspired by medical education's Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), to address this gap. MedQA-CS evaluates LLMs through two instruction-following tasks, LLM-as-medical-student and LLM-as-CS-examiner, designed to reflect real clinical scenarios. Our contributions include developing MedQA-CS, a comprehensive evaluation framework with publicly available data and expert annotations, and providing the quantitative and qualitative assessment of LLMs as reliable judges in CS evaluation. Our experiments show that MedQA-CS is a more challenging benchmark for evaluating clinical skills than traditional multiple-choice QA benchmarks (e.g., MedQA). Combined with existing benchmarks, MedQA-CS enables a more comprehensive evaluation of LLMs' clinical capabilities for both open- and closed-source LLMs.
@article{arxiv.2410.01553,
title = {MedQA-CS: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)-Style Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Clinical Skills},
author = {Zonghai Yao and Zihao Zhang and Chaolong Tang and Xingyu Bian and Youxia Zhao and Zhichao Yang and Junda Wang and Huixue Zhou and Won Seok Jang and Feiyun Ouyang and Hong Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.01553},
year = {2026}
}
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To appear in proceedings of the Main Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2026