患者教育对于医疗和大健康均具有重要意义，但当前面临多重难点。主要包括教育内容不全面、方式单一、时间不持续、医患信息不对称、沟通障碍、患者依从性低、评估方法不完善等问题。元宇宙可以通过虚拟现实和增强现实技术，在虚拟医疗教育中可提供虚拟实境、个性化学习路径、实时学习互动与反馈、社交互动与分享、情感支持与心理辅导、智能监测和评估以及持续的医疗支持等，有效帮助患者掌握医疗知识，大大提高患者教育覆盖面和效率。因此，元宇宙赋能患者教育中国专家专家组制定了本共识，旨在通过推动元宇宙赋能患者教育，以期尽早实现“名医治未病，元医惠众生”的愿景。

Patient education is of great significance for medical care and public health, but currently faces multiple challenges. These include incomplete educational content, single delivery methods, lack of continuous education, information asymmetry between doctors and patients, communication barriers, low patient compliance, and imperfect evaluation methods. Metaverse can provide virtual reality and augmented reality technologies to offer virtual medical education with features such as virtual reality environments, personalized learning paths, real-time learning interaction and feedback, social interaction and sharing, emotional support and psychological counseling, intelligent monitoring and evaluation, and continuous medical support. This can effectively help patients master medical knowledge, greatly improve the coverage and efficiency of patient education. Therefore, the consensus was developed to promote the empowerment of patient education through metaverse, aiming to achieve the vision of preventing diseases with renowned doctors and benefiting the public with metaverse doctors” as soon as possible.