George Doumat
2026
MTDiag: A Multi-Turn Diagnostic Dataset Towards Clinically Meaningful LLM Evaluation
Pia Chouayfati | Alexander M. Fichtl | Miriam Anschütz | George Doumat | Georg Groh
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Pia Chouayfati | Alexander M. Fichtl | Miriam Anschütz | George Doumat | Georg Groh
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Clinical diagnosis is fundamentally interactive and incremental, yet the dominant paradigm for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) in medicine remains static QA benchmarks or template-based dialogues. These benchmarks say little about whether a model can serve as a diagnostic agent in a dynamic clinical encounter, with LLMs showing significant accuracy and reliability degradation in multi-turn settings. To address this issue, we present MTDiag, a large multi-turn diagnostic dialogue dataset constructed from three heterogeneous sources: DDXPlus, MIMIC-IV, and published case reports (AJCR), covering common ED presentations as well as long-tail rare and atypical conditions. All cases are normalized into a canonical PatientVector schema anchored in the most comprehensive and widely-adopted medical knowledge bases (UMLS concept identifiers, with ICD-10 diagnosis codes). We release the PatientVector schema, a UserLM-8B-based utterance-generation pipeline, and the physician-validated dataset that converts structured clinical evidence into natural-language utterances. Importantly, we introduce and motivate clinical knowledge-grounded metrics for evaluating LLMs as diagnostic agents, beyond diagnostic accuracy, for the task of multi-turn differential diagnosis.