<p>As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into clinical decision-making, ensuring trustworthy reasoning is paramount. However, current evaluation strategies of LLMs’ medical reasoning capability either suffer from unsatisfactory assessment or poor scalability, and a rigorous benchmark remains absent. To address this, we present MedThink-Bench, a benchmark designed for rigorous and scalable assessment of LLMs’ medical reasoning. MedThink-Bench comprises 500 high-complexity questions spanning ten medical domains, accompanied by expert-authored, step-by-step rationales that elucidate intermediate reasoning processes. Further, we introduce LLM-w-Rationale, an evaluation framework that combines fine-grained rationale assessment with an LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm, enabling expert-level fidelity in evaluating reasoning quality while preserving scalability. Results show that LLM-w-Rationale correlates strongly with expert evaluation (Pearson coefficient up to 0.87) while requiring only 1.4% of the evaluation time. Overall, MedThink-Bench establishes a rigorous and scalable standard for evaluating medical reasoning in LLMs, advancing their safe and responsible deployment in clinical practice.</p>

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Automating expert-level medical reasoning evaluation of large language models

  • Shuang Zhou,
  • Wenya Xie,
  • Jiaxi Li,
  • Zaifu Zhan,
  • Meijia Song,
  • Han Yang,
  • Cheyenna Espinoza,
  • Lindsay Welton,
  • Xinnie Mai,
  • Yanwei Jin,
  • Zidu Xu,
  • Yuen-Hei Chung,
  • Yiyun Xing,
  • Meng-Han Tsai,
  • Emma Schaffer,
  • Yucheng Shi,
  • Ninghao Liu,
  • Zirui Liu,
  • Rui Zhang

摘要

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into clinical decision-making, ensuring trustworthy reasoning is paramount. However, current evaluation strategies of LLMs’ medical reasoning capability either suffer from unsatisfactory assessment or poor scalability, and a rigorous benchmark remains absent. To address this, we present MedThink-Bench, a benchmark designed for rigorous and scalable assessment of LLMs’ medical reasoning. MedThink-Bench comprises 500 high-complexity questions spanning ten medical domains, accompanied by expert-authored, step-by-step rationales that elucidate intermediate reasoning processes. Further, we introduce LLM-w-Rationale, an evaluation framework that combines fine-grained rationale assessment with an LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm, enabling expert-level fidelity in evaluating reasoning quality while preserving scalability. Results show that LLM-w-Rationale correlates strongly with expert evaluation (Pearson coefficient up to 0.87) while requiring only 1.4% of the evaluation time. Overall, MedThink-Bench establishes a rigorous and scalable standard for evaluating medical reasoning in LLMs, advancing their safe and responsible deployment in clinical practice.