ChatGPT Passes German State Examination in Medicine With Picture Questions Omitted.

Full medical registration in Germany requires passing three medical state examinations. The first state exam (M1) regarding pre-clinical subjects consists of a written exam and a viva voce exam. The second state exam (M2) is a written test and comprises the medical specialties. The third state exam (M3)is an oral/viva voce practical exam. The written test questions are published by the German Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions (IMPP).Both written tests consist of 320 single choice questions with five possible answers each. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of ChatGPT passed examinations of the US Medical License exam (USMLE) (1). ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM), which is based on the transformer network architecture "general pre-trained transformer" (GPT) with more than 170 billion parameters (2, 3). It recognizes speech patterns and responds in a context appropriate way to user queries/questions. We investigated whether Chat GPT could pass the first and second state examinations in Germany and thus is able to answer complex medical questions in the German language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]