Medical Ethics Council医道審議会
A council (審議会) set up in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Article 6, paragraph (1)) to deal with the matters that eleven Acts on health care — among them the Medical Care Act, the Medical Practitioners' Act and the Dental Practitioners' Act — place in its hands (Article 10, paragraph (1)); it gives its opinion, and the Minister decides. Under the Medical Practitioners' Act, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must hear its opinion before reprimanding a physician, suspending their practice or revoking their licence, and before granting a licence again after a revocation (Medical Practitioners' Act, Article 7, paragraphs (1) to (3)); before setting the subjects of the national examination for medical practitioners or of its preliminary examination, or how either is run and passed (Article 10, paragraph (2)); before designating a foreign hospital for clinical training or revoking the designation, and before setting each prefecture's quota of trainee physicians (Article 16-2, paragraph (5), and Article 16-3, paragraphs (1) and (2)); before drafting several of the Ministry's Orders (省令) under the Act (Article 11, paragraph (2), Article 16-2, paragraph (5), Article 16-10, paragraph (2), and Article 16-11, paragraph (2)); and before giving physicians instructions needed to prevent a serious danger to public health (Article 24-2). The Minister may also have one of its members hear a physician's explanation before a suspension (Article 7, paragraph (12)).
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Written by AI using Act for Establishment of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Arts. 6, 10 and Medical Practitioners' Act, Arts. 7, 10, 11, 16-2, 16-3, 16-10, 16-11, 24-2 as a reference.