Assessment of ChatGPT success with specialty medical knowledge using anaesthesiology board examination practice questions

Editor—An artificial intelligence (AI) system known as ChatGPT has recently demonstrated outstanding capabilities across a range of tasks, including diagnostic medicine. 1 Schulman J, Zoph B, Kim C, et al. ChatGPT: optimizing language models for dialogue 2022. Available from: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt. Accessed on January 30, 2023. Google Scholar ,2 Levine D.M. Tuwani R. Kompa B. et al. The Diagnostic and Triage Accuracy of the GPT-3 Artificial Intelligence Model. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Feb; Google Scholar ChatGPT has been shown to contain wide medical knowledge, performing reasonably well on medical licencing examination questions 3 Kung T.H. Cheatham M. Medinilla A. et al. Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models 2023. PLOS Digit Health. 2023; 2e0000198 Google Scholar and board examination style questions, such as neurosurgery. 4 Hopkins B.S. Nguyen V.N. Dallas J. et al. ChatGPT versus the neurosurgical written boards: a comparative analysis of artificial intelligence/machine learning performance on neurosurgical board-style questions. J Neurosurg. 2023; : 1-8 Google Scholar We aimed to characterise ChatGPT's knowledge of anaesthesiology-specialty medical knowledge on anaesthesiology board examination questions.