Med-OPD: Improving Medical Vision-Language Models via Evidence-Aware On-Policy Distillation
Experiments on OmniMedVQA subsets show that Med-OPD consistently outperforms SFT and standard OPD across CT, MRI, Disease Diagnosis, and Lesion Grading, and demonstrate that evidence-aware distillation can better strengthen medical VLMs'reliance on key visual evidence and improve reliable multimodal medical reasoning.