About Instruction data generation

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The first step in building a physician-patient conversation dataset is to collect the disease database that serves as the gold standard. Therefore, we collected and organized a database of diseases, which contains about 700 diseases with their relative symptoms, medical tests, and recommended medications. To train high-quality conversation models on an academic budget, we input each message from the disease database separately as a prompt into the ChatGPT API to automatically generate instruction data. It is worth noting that our prompts to the ChatGPT API contain the gold standard of diseases and symptoms, and drugs, so our fine-tuned ChatDoctor is not only able to achieve ChatGPT's conversational fluency but also higher diagnostic accuracy compared to ChatGPT. We finally collected 5K doctor-patient conversation instructions and named it InstructorDoctor-5K.

I'm confused by this process. Can anyone explain it more precisely?