diff --git a/romancal/outlier_detection/utils.py b/romancal/outlier_detection/utils.py
index d1ccec1e2..f3498e4ed 100644
--- a/romancal/outlier_detection/utils.py
+++ b/romancal/outlier_detection/utils.py
@@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ def _median_with_resampling(
         if True, save the drizzled models and median model to fits.
 
     make_output_path : function
-        The functools.partial instance to pass to save_median. Must be
-        specified if save_intermediate_results is True. Default None.
+        The functools.partial instance to pass to save_median.
 
     buffer_size : int
         The size of chunk in bytes that will be read into memory when computing the median.
         This parameter has no effect if the input library has its on_disk attribute
-        set to False.
+        set to False. If None or 0 the buffer size will be set to the size of one
+        input image.
     """
     if not resamp.single:
         raise ValueError(