Model Overview
- Type: Causal Language Model with Vision Encoder
- Training Stage: Pre-training & Post-training
- Language Model
- Number of Parameters: 27B
- Hidden Dimension: 5120
- Token Embedding: 248320 (Padded)
- Number of Layers: 64
- Hidden Layout: 16 × (3 × (Gated DeltaNet → FFN) → 1 × (Gated Attention → FFN))
- Gated DeltaNet:
- Number of Linear Attention Heads: 48 for V and 16 for QK
- Head Dimension: 128
- Gated Attention:
- Number of Attention Heads: 24 for Q and 4 for KV
- Head Dimension: 256
- Rotary Position Embedding Dimension: 64
- Feed Forward Network:
- Intermediate Dimension: 17408
- LM Output: 248320 (Padded)
- MTP: trained with multi-steps
- Context Length: 262,144 natively and extensible up to 1,010,000 tokens.
Interpretation
Reasoning-Medical-27B reports 93.00% MedQA accuracy in the model card's 2-shot setup. The same table reports 84.40% for Qwen 3.6 27B, an absolute difference of 8.60 percentage points.
The broader comparison above is not a standardized leaderboard. It combines published and model-card results that use materially different protocols, including:
- Few-shot and zero-shot prompting
- Web-search augmentation
- Benchmark-specific fine-tuning
- Self-consistency chain-of-thought
- Best-of-N test-time scaling
- Different MedQA variants and answer-option formats
For a defensible model comparison, rerun all models on the same dataset revision, prompt template, shot count, decoding settings, answer extractor, and random seed.
Evaluation limitations
The reported benchmark score should not be interpreted as clinical validation.
Important limitations include:
- MedQA measures exam-style multiple-choice performance, not real-world patient outcomes.
- Public benchmark contamination may inflate apparent generalization.
- Accuracy can change substantially with prompt templates and decoding settings.
- The model may generate confident but incorrect explanations.
- Performance may vary across specialties, countries, languages, demographics, and care settings.
- The public model card does not fully enumerate the approximately 370,000-example training mixture.
- Independent replication of the reported 0.930 MedQA score is recommended.
Installation
To get started, install the necessary dependencies to setup your environment:
!pip install --upgrade "transformers>=5.2.0"
Using Reasoning Medical 27B via the Chat Completions API
The chat completions API is accessible via standard HTTP requests or OpenAI SDKs.
Here, we show examples using the OpenAI Python SDK.
Before starting, make sure it is installed and the API key and the API base URL is configured, e.g.:
pip install -U openai
# Set the following accordingly
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8000/v1"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="EMPTY"
[!Tip]
We recommend using the following set of sampling parameters for generation
- Thinking mode for general tasks:
temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0, repetition_penalty=1.0
- Thinking mode for precise coding tasks (e.g. WebDev):
temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0, repetition_penalty=1.0
- Instruct (or non-thinking) mode:
temperature=0.7, top_p=0.80, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0
Please note that the support for sampling parameters varies according to inference frameworks.
[!Important]
Our models operate in thinking mode by default, generating thinking content signified by <think>\n...</think>\n\n before producing the final responses.
To disable thinking content and obtain direct response, refer to the examples here.
Text-Only Input
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
messages = [
{"role": "user", "content": "Chronic urethral obstruction due to benign prismatic hyperplasia can lead to the following change in kidney parenchyma"},
]
chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="EpistemeAI/Reasoning-Medical-27B",
messages=messages,
max_tokens=81920,
temperature=1.0,
top_p=0.95,
presence_penalty=0.0,
extra_body={
"top_k": 20,
},
)
print("Chat response:", chat_response)
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3.5/demo/CI_Demo/mathv-1327.jpg"
}
},
{
"type": "text",
"text": "The centres of the four illustrated circles are in the corners of the square. The two big circles touch each other and also the two little circles. With which factor do you have to multiply the radii of the little circles to obtain the radius of the big circles?\nChoices:\n(A) $\\frac{2}{9}$\n(B) $\\sqrt{5}$\n(C) $0.8 \\cdot \\pi$\n(D) 2.5\n(E) $1+\\sqrt{2}$"
}
]
}
]
chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="EpistemeAI/Reasoning-Medical-27B",
messages=messages,
max_tokens=81920,
temperature=1.0,
top_p=0.95,
presence_penalty=0.0,
extra_body={
"top_k": 20,
},
)
print("Chat response:", chat_response)
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "video_url",
"video_url": {
"url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3.5/demo/video/N1cdUjctpG8.mp4"
}
},
{
"type": "text",
"text": "How many porcelain jars were discovered in the niches located in the primary chamber of the tomb?"
}
]
}
]
chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="EpistemeAI/Reasoning-Medical-27B",
messages=messages,
max_tokens=81920,
temperature=1.0,
top_p=0.95,
presence_penalty=0.0,
extra_body={
"top_k": 20,
"mm_processor_kwargs": {"fps": 2, "do_sample_frames": True},
},
)
print("Chat response:", chat_response)
Instruct (or Non-Thinking) Mode
[!Important]
Our model does not officially support the soft switch of Reasoning Medical 27B, i.e., /think and /nothink.
Our model will think by default before response.
You can obtain direct response from the model without thinking by configuring the API parameters.
For example,
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3.6/demo/RealWorld/RealWorld-04.png"
}
},
{
"type": "text",
"text": "Where is this?"
}
]
}
]
chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="EpistemeAI/Reasoning-Medical-27B",
messages=messages,
max_tokens=32768,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.8,
presence_penalty=1.5,
extra_body={
"top_k": 20,
"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False},
},
)
print("Chat response:", chat_response)
[!Note]
If you are using APIs from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, in addition to changing model, please use "enable_thinking": False instead of "chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}.
Preserve Thinking
By default, only the thinking blocks generated in handling the latest user message is retained, resulting in a pattern commonly as interleaved thinking.
Reasoning Medical 27B has been additionally trained to preserve and leverage thinking traces from historical messages.
You can enable this behavior by setting the preserve_thinking option:
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
messages = [...]
chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="EpistemeAI/Reasoning-Medical-27B",
messages=messages,
max_tokens=32768,
temperature=0.6,
top_p=0.95,
presence_penalty=0.0,
extra_body={
"top_k": 20,
"chat_template_kwargs": {"preserve_thinking": True},
},
)
print("Chat response:", chat_response)
[!Note]
If you are using APIs from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, in addition to changing model, please use "preserve_thinking": True instead of "chat_template_kwargs": {"preserve_thinking": False}.
This capability is particularly beneficial for agent scenarios, where maintaining full reasoning context can enhance decision consistency and, in many cases, reduce overall token consumption by minimizing redundant reasoning. Additionally, it can improve KV cache utilization, optimizing inference efficiency in both thinking and non-thinking modes.
Agentic Usage
Our model excels in tool calling capabilities.
Qwen-Agent
We recommend using Qwen-Agent to quickly build Agent applications with Qwen3.6.
To define the available tools, you can use the MCP configuration file, use the integrated tool of Qwen-Agent, or integrate other tools by yourself.
import os
from qwen_agent.agents import Assistant
llm_cfg = {
'model': 'EpistemeAI/Reasoning-Medical-27B',
'model_type': 'qwenvl_oai',
'model_server': 'https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1',
'api_key': os.getenv('DASHSCOPE_API_KEY'),
'generate_cfg': {
'use_raw_api': True,
'extra_body': {
'enable_thinking': True,
'preserve_thinking': True,
},
},
}
tools = [
{'mcpServers': {
"filesystem": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "/Users/xxxx/Desktop"]
}
}
}
]
bot = Assistant(llm=llm_cfg, function_list=tools)
messages = [{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Help me organize my desktop.'}]
for responses in bot.run(messages=messages):
pass
print(responses)
messages = [{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Develop a dog website and save it on the desktop'}]
for responses in bot.run(messages=messages):
pass
print(responses)
Processing Ultra-Long Texts
Reasoning Medical 27B natively supports context lengths of up to 262,144 tokens.
For long-horizon tasks where the total length (including both input and output) exceeds this limit, we recommend using RoPE scaling techniques to handle long texts effectively., e.g., YaRN.
YaRN is currently supported by several inference frameworks, e.g., transformers, vllm, ktransformers and sglang.
In general, there are two approaches to enabling YaRN for supported frameworks:
-
Modifying the model configuration file:
In the config.json file, change the rope_parameters fields in text_config to:
{
"mrope_interleaved": true,
"mrope_section": [
11,
11,
10
],
"rope_type": "yarn",
"rope_theta": 10000000,
"partial_rotary_factor": 0.25,
"factor": 4.0,
"original_max_position_embeddings": 262144,
}
-
Passing command line arguments:
For vllm, you can use
VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1 vllm serve ... --hf-overrides '{"text_config": {"rope_parameters": {"mrope_interleaved": true, "mrope_section": [11, 11, 10], "rope_type": "yarn", "rope_theta": 10000000, "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25, "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}}' --max-model-len 1010000
For sglang and ktransformers, you can use
SGLANG_ALLOW_OVERWRITE_LONGER_CONTEXT_LEN=1 python -m sglang.launch_server ... --json-model-override-args '{"text_config": {"rope_parameters": {"mrope_interleaved": true, "mrope_section": [11, 11, 10], "rope_type": "yarn", "rope_theta": 10000000, "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25, "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}}' --context-length 1010000
[!NOTE]
All the notable open-source frameworks implement static YaRN, which means the scaling factor remains constant regardless of input length, potentially impacting performance on shorter texts.
We advise modifying the rope_parameters configuration only when processing long contexts is required.
It is also recommended to modify the factor as needed. For example, if the typical context length for your application is 524,288 tokens, it would be better to set factor as 2.0.
Best Practices
To achieve optimal performance, we recommend the following settings:
-
Sampling Parameters:
- We suggest using the following sets of sampling parameters depending on the mode and task type:
- Thinking mode for general tasks:
temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0, repetition_penalty=1.0
- Thinking mode for precise coding tasks (e.g., WebDev):
temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0,
Benchmark results reported by the model card
HealthBench Professional

Table with columns: Rank, Model or System, Score, Source| Rank | Model or System | Score | Source |
|---|
| 1 | Reasoning Medical 27B | 0.560 | EpistemeAI evaluation |
| 2 | GPT 5.5 | 0.518 | External evaluation |
| 3 | Opus 4.8 | 0.512 | External evaluation |
| 4 | Kimi-K2.6 | 0.503 | External evaluation |
Broader reported MedQA comparison

Table with columns: Rank, Model, Parameters, MedQA accuracy, Reported protocol| Rank | Model | Parameters | MedQA accuracy | Reported protocol |
|---|
| 1 | EpistemeAI/Reasoning-Medical-27B | 27B | 93.00% | 2-shot; accuracy reported on the model card |
| 2 | Med-Gemini | Not disclosed | 91.10% | Uncertainty-guided web-search strategy |
| 3 |
Legal Notice and Disclaimer
This model is independently developed and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, authorized by, or otherwise associated with Qwen, Alibaba Group, or any of their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, licensors, owners, or representatives. Any reference to Qwen is made solely for descriptive or comparative purposes, where applicable.
To the best of the developer’s knowledge, no fine-tuning, training, evaluation, optimization, or model-development process for this model involved distillation from OpenAI or Anthropic models, systems, APIs, outputs, synthetic responses, logits, hidden states, labels, or any other derived training signals. No OpenAI or Anthropic model outputs were knowingly used as training data for this fine-tuning process.
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Limitation
Reasoning-Medical-27B is intended for research and informational purposes only. Its outputs should not be used to directly guide clinical diagnosis, patient management, treatment decisions, or any other direct clinical practice applications.
Benchmark results are provided to illustrate the model’s baseline performance on relevant evaluation tasks; however, they do not guarantee accuracy, reliability, or suitability for clinical use. Even in image and text domains that are substantially represented in the training data, the model may generate incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading outputs.
All outputs generated by Reasoning-Medical-27B should be treated as preliminary and must undergo independent verification, clinical correlation, and further validation through established research, development, and regulatory review processes before any clinical application is considered.
Model Card Authors
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- Developed by: EpistemeAI
- License: apache-2.0
- Created USA