What is Step Juan?
Introducing STEP Juan, a clinical problem solving algorithm designed to succeed on USMLE STEP1 questions! USMLE STEP1 is a milestone exam administered after preclinical training in medical school that demonstrates a student's fundamental level of medical knowledge and clinical reasoning. The exam consists of ~280 multiple choice questions presented as clinical vignettes. STEP Juan accepts a screenshot of a STEP1 question as input. Google's Vision AI API converts the image to text and extracts the question stem. The question stem is then analyzed with the Stanza Natural Language Processing package biomedical model, which parses the question stem to extract relevant signs and symptoms for downstream analysis. Future iterations of STEP Juan will take these symptoms as input to query a database of disorders in order to come up with a most-likely diagnosis. Subsequent development will focus on approaches to answer second order questions about treatment and disease mechanism.
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