A Systematic Review of Large Language Models in Medical Specialties: Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

A Systematic Review of Large Language Models in Medical Specialties: Applications, Challenges and Future Directions

This systematic review evaluates recent literature from January 2021 to March 2024 on large language model (LLM) applications across diverse medical specialties. Searching PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus, we included 84 studies. LLMs were applied to tasks such as clinical natural language process...

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Main Authors:	Asma Musabah Alkalbani, Ahmed Salim Alrawahi, Ahmad Salah, Venus Haghighi, Yang Zhang, Salam Alkindi, Quan Z. Sheng
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2025-06-01
Series:	Information
Subjects:	artificial intelligence clinical decision support systems large language models clinical natural language processing medical specialties
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/16/6/489
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