Register of medical practitioners

The register of physicians kept at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, which records the date of each registration, any reprimand, suspension or revocation of a licence, and the other matters of each physician's licence (Medical Practitioners' Act, Article 5). A physician's licence is granted by entering in it a person who has passed the national medical examination, on their application, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare then issues a licence certificate (医師免許証) (Article 6, paragraphs (1) and (2)). The completion of clinical training, and of any re-education training the Minister ordered — including one ordered for a person seeking a licence again — is also entered in it on the application of the person who completed it (Article 16-6, paragraph (1), and Article 7-2, paragraph (2)).