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New benchmark reveals LLMs struggle with interactive physician assistance

Researchers have developed PhysAssistBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in assisting physicians. This benchmark focuses on interactive scenarios involving doctors, patients, and electronic health records (EHRs), requiring LLMs to coordinate clinical knowledge, communication, and system interaction. Built using real cases from MIMIC-IV, PhysAssistBench includes a dataset of 1,296 physician-validated turns. Initial experiments indicate that current LLMs are not yet reliable enough for this complex clinical assistance role, highlighting the need for better integration of these diverse capabilities. AI

IMPACT Highlights a critical gap in LLM capabilities for real-world clinical assistance, indicating further development is needed for reliable integration into healthcare workflows.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper introducing a new benchmark for evaluating LLMs in a specific domain.

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  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiancheng Yang ·

    Are LLMs Ready to Assist Physicians? PhysAssistBench for Interactive Doctor-Patient-EHR Assistance

    The most plausible near-term role of medical LLMs is to assist rather than replace physicians, yet current evaluations often test isolated capabilities: clinical knowledge, EHR system interaction, or patient communication. Physician assistance instead requires coordinating these …