# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2) - 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: 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2) — address `art-17-2` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-17-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-17-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十七条の二 art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-17-2 **第一項** 大学において医学を専攻する学生であつて、共用試験に合格したものは、前条の規定にかかわらず、当該大学が行う臨床実習において、医師の指導監督の下に、医師として具有すべき知識及び技能の修得のために医業（政令で定めるものを除く。次条において同じ。）をすることができる。 art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-17-2/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, a student majoring in medicine at a university who has passed the common examination may, in clinical practicum conducted by the university, under the guidance and supervision of a medical practitioner, engage in medical practice (excluding that specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies in the following Article) in order to acquire the knowledge and skills that a medical practitioner should possess. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-17-2/par-1: 前条 → 医師法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-17 - art-17-2/par-1: 次条 → 医師法 第十七条の三 (Article 17-3), art-17-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-17-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-17-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 第十一条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-11/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-11/par-1/item-1 - 医師法 第十七条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-practitioners-act/art-17-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-17-3/par-1 --- ## 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-20261009T095312-003, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09