---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: User
    dtype: string
  - name: Category
    dtype: string
  - name: Language
    dtype: string
  - name: Topic1
    dtype: string
  - name: Topic2
    dtype: string
  - name: Topic3
    dtype: string
  - name: Text
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 241448613
    num_examples: 21871
  download_size: 110279683
  dataset_size: 241448613
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
- question-answering
- conversational
- text-generation
language:
- en
- de
- fr
- es
tags:
- medical
- healthcare
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---
# MSD_manual_topics_user_base

This dataset has been built with the website https://www.msdmanuals.com/ provided by Merck & Co for the greater audience.

The MSD manual is an essential source of knowledge for many topics related to symptoms, diseases, health and other related topics. The manual makes an extra effort to make it available both for professionals and patients by having two distinct version. 
The content, while being labelled the same, differs by the type of user in order to facilitate understanding for patients or give clear details for professional. The manual is available in different languages. 

This dataset focuses on spanish, german, english and french content about health topics and symptoms. The content is tagged by 2 to 3 medical topics and flagged by user and languages.

Use cases:
- Create adaptive agent for medical explanation
- Benchmarck models' abilities to explain
- Create medical agents
- Fine-tune models

[More Information needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)