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healthcare professions soft skills contribute critical thinking decisionmaking patientcentered care important delivery highquality medical care soft skills often underemphasized healthcare training lowandmiddleincome countries despite south asias large population efficacy viability digital soft skills curriculum south asian healthcare practitioners studied date hypothesized webbased multilingual soft skills course could aid understanding application soft skills improve healthcare practitioner knowledge confidence attitudes intenttochange clinical practicein september 2019 needs assessment observing soft skills practices conducted several indian states developed communicationfocused soft skills curriculum comprised seven 10minute video lectures recorded spoken english hindi participants consisted practicing healthcare professionals trainees select south asian countries age 18 participant knowledge confidence attitudes intenttochange clinical practice evaluated using pre postcourse tests surveys statistical analyses performed using stata spssfrom july 26 2021 september 26 2021 5750 registered attempted course 2628 unique participants completed pretest 1566 unique participants completed posttest participants demonstrated small statistically significant gains confidence 0001 attitudes toward course topics relevance 0001 intenttochange clinical practice 0001 statistically significant gain knowledge digital softskills massive open online course healthcare practitioners south asia could serve viable approach improve quality soft skills training lowtomiddle income countries