# Register of medical practitioners (医籍, いせき)

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- Group: Institutions, offices and documents
- URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/medical-register
- In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/medical-register
- Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-09

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)).

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## Provisions and sources it draws on

- [Medical Practitioners' Act, Arts. 5, 6, 7-2, 16-6](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000201) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act

## Where the laws use it

1 law in force uses it in this sense, in 7 provisions; there the word opens this explanation.

- [Medical Practitioners' Act (医師法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act): 7 provisions, among them [Article 5](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-5), [Article 6](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-6), [Article 7-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-7-2)

## Related

- [Rescission (取消し, とりけし)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/rescission)

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## Sources

- Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-09)
- Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text
- English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3992/tb)