In Japan, questions and answers from the annual medical license examination are made publicly available and can be freely used without concerns about copyright infringement. This practice is quite rare globally, where exam content is often restricted or kept confidential.

On this website, a selection of high-quality questions from the Japanese medical license exam has been translated into foreign languages and supplemented with detailed explanations. These questions are an invaluable resource for medical students, helping them acquire the essential knowledge needed to become doctors.

This initiative is particularly beneficial for medical students in low- and middle-income countries, where access to expensive medical textbooks is often limited.

Japan’s open-access approach promotes transparency and supports a more inclusive and equitable learning environment, helping medical students around the globe prepare for their careers without financial or legal barriers.

You can ask ChatGPT for more detailed information about each question, which is almost correct. However, ChatGPT is not very good at briefly summarizing the key points for each question.

These questions and answers may also be useful as training data for generative large language models (LLMs).