October 12, 2025Open Access

The Growing Importance of Soft Skills in Medical Education in the AI Era: Balancing Humanistic Care and Artificial Intelligence

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Narrative review highlights soft skills' impact on patient safety and ethical accountability, suggesting integration into medical curricula.

Soft skills enhance patient adherence and satisfaction, promoting safety and trust during interactions with healthcare providers.
The integration of communication, emotional intelligence, and professionalism reflects a vital aspect of medical education in training future physicians.
Experiential and competency-based pedagogies yield the strongest outcomes for developing soft skills necessary in AI-enhanced medical environments.
Despite challenges like fragmented curricular adoption, a focus on soft skills cultivates physician resilience, collaboration, and ethical practice.

Effie Simou (2025) studied this question.

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Narrative review highlights soft skills' impact on patient safety and ethical accountability, suggesting integration into medical curricula.