ABSTRACT
Educating patients to correctly recognize and fulfill their health ethical responsibilities is an important basis for maintaining individual health, constructing a harmonious doctor-patient relationship, and building a healthy China. By combing the domestic and foreign papers on patient ethical responsibility education, this paper summarized the educational elements of patient ethical responsibility education, including the educational subject, educational object, educational content, and educational path. At present, there are limitations in the research on patient ethical responsibility education both domestically and internationally, such as incomplete theoretical system, insufficient empirical research on the transformation from theory to practice, and the lack of educational effectiveness evaluation tools. It is expected to provide useful reference to improve the theoretical system of patient ethical responsibility for future research on patient ethical responsibility education, explore the path of ethical responsibility education and practice, and formulate effective tools for evaluating the effectiveness of ethical responsibility education, and improve patients’ awareness and performance of ethical responsibility.