A person who does not fall under any of the following items may not take the national examination for medical practitioners:
医師国家試験は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する者でなければ、これを受けることができない。
a person who has completed a regular course of study in medicine at a university and graduated (limited to a person who has passed the examination specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as an examination common to universities for evaluating whether students majoring in medicine at a university have acquired the knowledge and skills they should have before beginning clinical practice (referred to as the "common examination" in Article 17-2));
a person who has passed the national preliminary examination for medical practitioners, and who has subsequently undergone practical training related to medical care or public health for one year or more; or
医師国家試験予備試験に合格した者で、合格した後一年以上の診療及び公衆衛生に関する実地修練を経たもの
a person who has graduated from a medical school in a foreign state, or who has acquired a medical practitioner's license in a foreign state, who possesses at least the same level of knowledge and skills as the persons set forth in the preceding two items and whom the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved as eligible to take the national examination for medical practitioners.
外国の医学校を卒業し、又は外国で医師免許を得た者で、厚生労働大臣が前二号に掲げる者と同等以上の学力及び技能を有し、かつ、適当と認定したもの
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare seeks to draft the enactment or amendment of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in item (i) of the preceding paragraph, the Minister must hear the opinions of the Medical Ethics Council.
厚生労働大臣は、前項第一号の厚生労働省令の制定又は改正の立案をしようとするときは、医道審議会の意見を聴かなければならない。