Research Letter

Fidelity of Medical Reasoning in Large Language Models

JAMA Network Open 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.26021

August 08, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This cross-sectional study evaluates whether the performance of large language models on medical benchmarks reflects logical reasoning or pattern recognition.

Corresponding Author: Suhana Bedi, BS, Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, 453 Quarry Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1419 (suhana@stanford.edu).

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