## Dataset Summary
MedPT is the first large-scale, real-world corpus for the Brazilian Portuguese medical domain. It comprises 384,095 authentic question-answer pairs derived from patient-doctor interactions. The dataset covers over 3,200 distinct health-related conditions spanning across 104 medical specialties.
This dataset is designed to advance natural language processing in healthcare for Portuguese speakers by capturing unique clinical and cultural nuances, including endemic diseases and region-specific colloquialisms often lost in translated datasets.
## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
A typical instance in the dataset consists of a patient's medical question, an expert's answer, and associated metadata regarding the medical condition, the answering doctor's specialty, and the semantic intent of the question.
**Example:**
```json
{
"id": 0,
"question": "Fazer aplicação de ácido hialurônico no ombro para melhorar o movimento da capsulite adesiva funciona?",
"ans…
