EuropeMedQA Study Protocol: A Multilingual, Multimodal Medical Examination Dataset for Language Model Evaluation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14306v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:03:13 GMT
• Title: EuropeMedQA Study Protocol: A Multilingual, Multimodal Medical Examination Dataset for Language Model Evaluation
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated high proficiency on English-centric medical examinations.<n>This study protocol describes the development of EuropeMedQA, the first comprehensive, multilingual, and multimodal medical examination dataset.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated high proficiency on English-centric medical examinations, their performance often declines when faced with non-English languages and multimodal diagnostic tasks. This study protocol describes the development of EuropeMedQA, the first comprehensive, multilingual, and multimodal medical examination dataset sourced from official regulatory exams in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. Following FAIR data principles and SPIRIT-AI guidelines, we describe a rigorous curation process and an automated translation pipeline for comparative analysis. We evaluate contemporary multimodal LLMs using a zero-shot, strictly constrained prompting strategy to assess cross-lingual transfer and visual reasoning. EuropeMedQA aims to provide a contamination-resistant benchmark that reflects the complexity of European clinical practices and fosters the development of more generalizable medical AI.

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