@article{betteraccuraciesworsereasoningasteplevel,
  title = {Better Accuracies, Worse Reasoning: A Step-Level Audit of Medical Chain-of-Thought Distillation},
  author = {Zhaoyang Jiang and Xuanqi Peng and Fei Teng and Zhizhong Fu and Yunsoo Kim and Jiacong Mi and Zicheng Li and Honghan Wu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.28301},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28301},
}