Automated Generation and Human Evaluation of Neurosurgical Board Examination Self-Assessment Questions
Anton Alyakin, Jaden Stryker, Daniel Alexander Alber, Jin Vivian Lee, Shrutika Singh, Akshay Save, David Kurland, Cordelia Orillac, Aly A. Valliani, Sean Neifert, Darryl Lau, Ilya Laufer, Peter A. Rozman, Eveline Teresa Hidalgo, Howard Riina, Eric C. Leuthardt, Douglas Kondziolka, Laura Snyder, Eric Karl Oermann · 2026
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Anton Alyakin and a large team test, in 2026, whether artificial intelligence can write neurosurgery board examination questions as well as human experts. Multiple-choice questions are the main format for board certification, but writing good ones consumes scarce expert time.
The team built an automated pipeline using the newest vision-language models to generate board-style self-assessment questions, then had them judged blind against authentic questions. Medical educators gain a quality comparison. It shows where machine drafting can safely save faculty time. It also shows where expert writing still wins. Every specialty that maintains large question banks faces this question.
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| CREATOR | Anton Alyakin, Jaden Stryker, Daniel Alexander Alber, Jin Vivian Lee, Shrutika Singh, Akshay Save, David Kurland, Cordelia Orillac, Aly A. Valliani, Sean Neifert, Darryl Lau, Ilya Laufer, Peter A. Rozman, Eveline Teresa Hidalgo, Howard Riina, Eric C. Leuthardt, Douglas Kondziolka, Laura Snyder, Eric Karl Oermann |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27716 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |