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# 🩺 MedicalChatBot - Hugging Face Space

An open-source medical assistant chatbot trained on multiple curated datasets including MedQuAD, PubMedQA, and custom instruction-based datasets. The chatbot is designed to answer a wide range of medical and health-related questions accurately and reliably.

## 🚀 Features

- Medical question answering
- Research-backed responses
- Built on top of Transformers
- Lightweight for deployment

## 🧠 Model

The underlying model is a fine-tuned transformer hosted on the Hugging Face Model Hub:

**Model**: [kberta2014/MedicalChatBot](https://huggingface.co/kberta2014/MedicalChatBot)

## 📚 Dataset

The chatbot was trained on:

- [MedQuAD](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/medquad.html)
- [PubMedQA](https://pubmedqa.github.io/)
- Custom instruction-based medical QA dataset

Dataset repository: [kberta2014/MedicalChatBot-Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/kberta2014/MedicalChatBot-Dataset)

## 💻 Usage

You can interact with the chatbot in this space or embed it into your own application.

## 🧪 Example Prompts

```text
What causes anemia?
How do antibiotics work?
Can probiotics improve gut health?
Is intermittent fasting effective for weight loss?
```

## 📦 Installation Requirements

The following packages are used in this Space:

```bash
pip install transformers gradio
```