When I evaluate a medical LLM for a real deployment, triage chatbot, decision-support tool, or internal research assistant, I’m not looking for cool demos. I’m looking for evidence: training data, benchmarks, reproducible scripts, and a clear risk profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clinical Camel and PMC-LLaMA are two of the most important open-source medical LLM families right now. I’ve tested both in internal sandboxes for clinical Q&A, guideline retrieval, and resident education use cases. They behave very differently, and that’s exactly why they complement each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Below I walk through how they’re trained, how they perform, and which one I’d choose for hospitals, MedTech products, and education tools, plus how to get them running on your own hardware under HIPAA\/GDPR constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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