Dialogue is Better Than Monologue: Instructing Meidcal LLMs via Strategic Conversations

Zijie Liu; Xinyu Zhao; Jie Peng; Jinhao Duan; Zhuangdi Zhu; Qingyu Chen; Kaidi Xu; Xia Hu; Tianlong Chen

Dialogue is Better Than Monologue: Instructing Meidcal LLMs via Strategic Conversations

Zijie Liu, Xinyu Zhao, Jie Peng, Jinhao Duan, Zhuangdi Zhu, Qingyu Chen, Kaidi Xu, Xia Hu, Tianlong Chen

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Cite (ACL):: Zijie Liu, Xinyu Zhao, Jie Peng, Jinhao Duan, Zhuangdi Zhu, Qingyu Chen, Kaidi Xu, Xia Hu, and Tianlong Chen. 2026. Dialogue is Better Than Monologue: Instructing Meidcal LLMs via Strategic Conversations. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, pages 2858–2872, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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%A Duan, Jinhao
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%A Hu, Xia
%A Chen, Tianlong
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[Dialogue is Better Than Monologue: Instructing Meidcal LLMs via Strategic Conversations](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.149/) (Liu et al., Findings 2026)

Dialogue is Better Than Monologue: Instructing Meidcal LLMs via Strategic Conversations (Liu et al., Findings 2026)

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Zijie Liu, Xinyu Zhao, Jie Peng, Jinhao Duan, Zhuangdi Zhu, Qingyu Chen, Kaidi Xu, Xia Hu, and Tianlong Chen. 2026. Dialogue is Better Than Monologue: Instructing Meidcal LLMs via Strategic Conversations. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, pages 2858–2872, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.