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ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Assessing the Efficacy of Ortho GPT: A Comparative Study with Medical Students and General LLMs on Orthopedic Examination Questions.

Philippe Fabian Pohlmann, Maximilian Glienke, Richard Sandkamp, Christian Gratzke, Hagen Schmal, Dominik Stephan Schoeb, Andreas Fuchs

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Philippe Fabian PohlmannDepartment of Urology, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8578-7452
Maximilian GlienkeDepartment of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6051-4404
Richard SandkampDepartment of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Christian GratzkeDepartment of Urology, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Hagen SchmalDepartment of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8801-2385
Dominik Stephan SchoebDepartment of Urology, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Andreas FuchsDepartment of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.

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backgroundDomain-specific large language models (LLMs) like Ortho GPT have potential advantages over general-purpose models in medical education, offering improved factual accuracy and contextual relevance. This study evaluates the performance of Ortho GPT against general LLMs and senior medical students on validated orthopedic examination questions.

methodsSix LLMs (Ortho GPT 4o, ChatGPT 4o, ChatGPT 3.5, Perplexity AI, DeepSeek-R1, and Llama 3.3-70B) were tested using multiple-choice items from final-year medical student orthopedic exams in German language. Each model answered identical questions under standardized zero-shot conditions; accuracy rates and item-level results were compared using McNemar's test, Jaccard similarity, and point-biserial correlation with student difficulty ratings.

resultsOrtho GPT achieved the highest accuracy across models. McNemar's tests revealed the significant superiority of Ortho GPT over DeepSeek (

conclusionsThese findings illustrate the superiority of Ortho GPT in orthopedic exam accuracy and context relevance, attributed to its specialized training data. The domain-specific approach enables performance matching or exceeding top general LLMs in orthopedics, emphasizing the importance of domain specialization for reliable, curriculum-aligned support in medical education.

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Artificial Intelligencemachine learningmedical educationnatural language processingorthopedicsstudent assessment

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PMCPMC12729420

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