[The Metaverse: A New Frontier for Healthcare].

We discuss leveraging a cutting-edge technology known as the Metaverse to tackle healthcare challenges, with a particular focus on enhancing patient satisfaction and improving working conditions for medical professionals. We plan to achieve this by improving real-digital collaboration and utilizing the advantages of the Metaverse, such as novel communication and experiences and increased work efficiency and quality. This article showcases several concrete examples of Metaverse services in the medical field, as demonstrated by the "Medical Metaverse Joint Research Course" established through a collaboration between IBM and Juntendo University, and also highlights possible future prospects.