# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第十六条の十一 (Article 16-11) - 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: 第十六条の十一 (Article 16-11) — address `art-16-11` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-11 - 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. --- ### 第十六条の十一 art-16-11 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-11 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、医師が、長時間にわたる労働により健康を損なうことなく、医療に関する最新の知見及び技能に関する研修を受ける機会を確保できるようにするため特に必要があると認めるときは、当該研修を行い、又は行おうとする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に対し、当該研修の実施に関し、必要な措置の実施を要請することができる。 art-16-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-11/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it particularly necessary to ensure that medical practitioners have opportunities to receive training in the latest knowledge and skills concerning medical care without impairing their health through long working hours, the Minister may request 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 that conducts or seeks to conduct such training to take necessary measures regarding the implementation of the training. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の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-16-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-11/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 under the preceding paragraph, the Minister must hear the opinions of the Medical Ethics Council. machine translation, not official **第三項** 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、厚生労働大臣から研修の実施に関し、必要な措置の実施を要請されたときは、当該要請に応じるよう努めなければならない。 art-16-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-11/par-3 When an association specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under paragraph (1) has been requested by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph to take necessary measures regarding the implementation of training, it must endeavor to comply with the request. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16-11/par-2: 前項 → 医師法 第十六条の十一第一項 (Article 16-11, paragraph (1)), art-16-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-11/par-1 - art-16-11/par-3: 第一項 → 医師法 第十六条の十一第一項 (Article 16-11, paragraph (1)), art-16-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-11/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 第十六条の十一第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-11/par-2 - 医師法 第十六条の十一第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-11/par-3 --- ## 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