GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
20 hours ago
- #Medical Education
- #Transcript Normalization
- #Residency Recruitment
- Cortex Core Clerkship Transcript Normalization feature has received feedback regarding inaccuracies in automation-extracted grades.
- Cortex provides access to all application data in its original format and uses OCR and NLP to parse clerkship grades.
- The tool generates reference reports for contextualizing grades but does not allow filtering or auto-rejecting applicants based on these outputs.
- Program directors are encouraged to verify grades against official transcripts, which are fully accessible in Cortex.
- Concerns about inaccuracies disadvantaging applicants are addressed by emphasizing the tool's supplementary role and the broader review practices of program directors.
- Guidelines recommend using Transcript Normalization as a reference and verifying grades through official documents.
- Applicants are assured their official documents are correct and unchanged, with discrepancies identified and corrected by program directors.
- Medical schools are encouraged to share guidance with applicants and collaborate on refining grade mappings for complex systems.
- Thalamus commits to continuous improvement of Cortex based on community feedback, aiming for a fair and efficient recruitment experience.