@article{250510717, title = {A Modular Approach for Clinical SLMs Driven by Synthetic Data with Pre-Instruction Tuning, Model Merging, and Clinical-Tasks Alignment}, author = {Jean-Philippe Corbeil and Amin Dada and Jean-Michel Attendu and Asma Ben Abacha and Alessandro Sordoni and Lucas Caccia and François Beaulieu and Thomas Lin and Jens Kleesiek and Paul Vozila}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2505.10717}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10717v2}, }