# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第十六条の十 (Article 16-10) - 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: 第十六条の十 (Article 16-10) — address `art-16-10` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十六条の十 art-16-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10 **第一項** 医学医術に関する学術団体その他の厚生労働省令で定める団体は、医師の研修に関する計画を定め、又は変更しようとするとき（当該計画に基づき研修を実施することにより、医療提供体制の確保に重大な影響を与える場合として厚生労働省令で定める場合に限る。）は、あらかじめ、厚生労働大臣の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-16-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-1 When an academic association related to medical science and medical techniques or any other association specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare seeks to establish or change a plan concerning the training of medical practitioners (limited to a case specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in which implementing training based on the plan would have a significant impact on securing the medical care provision system), it must hear the opinions of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in advance. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の団体を定める厚生労働省令の制定又は改廃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。 art-16-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-2 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare seeks to prepare a draft for the establishment, amendment or abolition of the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that specifies the associations referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Minister must hear the opinions of the Medical Ethics Council. machine translation, not official **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、第一項の規定により意見を述べるときは、あらかじめ、関係都道府県知事の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-16-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-3 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare states opinions pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the Minister must hear the opinions of the prefectural governors concerned in advance. machine translation, not official **第四項** 都道府県知事は、前項の規定により意見を述べるときは、あらかじめ、地域医療対策協議会の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-16-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-4 When a prefectural governor states opinions pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the governor must hear the opinions of the regional medical care measures council in advance. machine translation, not official **第五項** 第一項の厚生労働省令で定める団体は、同項の規定により厚生労働大臣の意見を聴いたときは、同項に規定する医師の研修に関する計画の内容に当該意見を反映させるよう努めなければならない。 art-16-10/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-5 When an association specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under paragraph (1) has heard the opinions of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, it must endeavor to reflect those opinions in the content of the plan concerning the training of medical practitioners prescribed in that paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16-10/par-2: 前項 → 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/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-1 - art-16-10/par-3: 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/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-1 - art-16-10/par-4: 前項 → 医師法 第十六条の十第三項 (Article 16-10, paragraph (3)), art-16-10/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-3 - art-16-10/par-5: 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/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 第十六条の九第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-9/par-1 - 医師法 第十六条の十第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-2 - 医師法 第十六条の十第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-3 - 医師法 第十六条の十第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-4 - 医師法 第十六条の十第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-10/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-10/par-5 --- ## 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 - 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