# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第十六条の九 (Article 16-9)

- Law: 医師法 (Medical Practitioners' Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百一号
- English title "Medical Practitioners' Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第十六条の九 (Article 16-9) — address `art-16-9`
- Text in force since: 2026-05-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-9
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-9
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### 第十六条の九
<sup>art-16-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-9</sup>

  **第一項**  国、都道府県、病院又は診療所の管理者、大学、医学医術に関する学術団体、診療に関する学識経験者の団体その他の関係者は、医療提供体制（医療法第三十条の三第一項に規定する医療提供体制をいう。次条第一項において同じ。）の確保に与える影響に配慮して医師の研修が行われるよう、適切な役割分担を行うとともに、相互に連携を図りながら協力するよう努めなければならない。
  <sup>art-16-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-9/par-1</sup>
  The national government, prefectures, administrators of hospitals or clinics, universities, academic associations related to medical science and medical techniques, associations of persons with knowledge and experience regarding medical care, and other persons concerned must endeavor to cooperate with each other while maintaining mutual collaboration, with an appropriate division of roles, so that training of medical practitioners is conducted in consideration of its impact on securing the medical care provision system (meaning the medical care provision system prescribed in Article 30-3, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article).
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-16-9/par-1: 医療法第三十条の三第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000205, 第三十条の三第一項 (Article 30-3, paragraph (1)), art-30-3/par-1 — not held in this collection
- art-16-9/par-1: 次条第一項 → 医師法 第十六条の十第一項 (Article 16-10, paragraph (1)), art-16-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医師法 — the text in force from 2026-05-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000201/20260521_505AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-09
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Practitioners' Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3992/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-practitioners-act-20261009T095312-002, translated 2026-10-09
- This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09