The Rundown: AI Research …. what about doctors and medical exams!

Posted on August 18, 2025 by michelleclarke2015
AI RESEARCH
🏥 GPT-5 blows past doctors on medical exams
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The Rundown: OpenAI’s GPT-5 posted impressive results on medical reasoning benchmarks, surpassing both GPT-4o and human medical professionals by substantial margins across diagnostic and multimodal tasks in a new study from Emory University.
The details:
The model achieved 95.84% accuracy on MedQA’s clinical questions, jumping 4.8 percentage points over GPT-4o’s previous best.GPT-5 scored 70% on multimodal medical reasoning tasks that combine patient histories with imaging, gaining nearly 30 points over GPT-4o.The system also exceeded pre-licensed medical professionals by 24% on reasoning and 29% on understanding in expert-level tests.GPT-5 showed sophisticated diagnostic abilities on complex cases, correctly ID’ing rare conditions like Boerhaave syndrome from lab values and CT scans.
Why it matters: The shift from GPT-4o’s near-human performance to GPT-5’s superiority over medical professionals shows we’re approaching a point where physicians NOT using AI in clinical settings could be regarded as malpractice (H/T Dr. Derya Unutmaz). Plus, the gap is only heading in one direction as intelligence scales.

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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