Teaching LLMs Brazilian Healthcare: Injecting Knowledge from Official Clinical Guidelines

arXiv:2605.01077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brazil's Unified Health System (SUS) relies on official clinical guidelines that define diagnostic criteria, treatments, dosages, and monitoring procedures for over 200 million citizens. Yet current LLMs perform poorly on this guideline-specific knowledge, and no benchmark evaluates clinical recall grounded in Brazilian Portuguese protocols. We address this gap by adapting Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct to the Brazilian clinical domain. From 178 official gui...