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Soft Skills versus Digital Competencies in the Medical Curriculum of the Future: A Comprehensive Review

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The review showed that healthcare and medical education increasingly rely on AI tools, telemedicine, electronic health records and big-data analytics, yet excessive dependence on them may weaken clinical reasoning, depersonalise care, increase bias and create concerns about the replacement of clinicians.

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