  Generative large language models (LLMs) have shown great success in various
applications, including question-answering (QA) and dialogue systems. However,
in specialized domains like traditional Chinese medical QA, these models may
perform unsatisfactorily without fine-tuning on domain-specific datasets. To
address this, we introduce MedChatZH, a dialogue model designed specifically
for traditional Chinese medical QA. Our model is pre-trained on Chinese
traditional medical books and fine-tuned with a carefully curated medical
instruction dataset. It outperforms several solid baselines on a real-world
medical dialogue dataset. We release our model, code, and dataset on
https://github.com/tyang816/MedChatZH to facilitate further research in the
domain of traditional Chinese medicine and LLMs.
