# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第十六条の四 (Article 16-4) - 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: 第十六条の四 (Article 16-4) — address `art-16-4` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-4 - 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. --- ### 第十六条の四 art-16-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-4 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、臨床研修の業務の適正な実施を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、臨床研修病院の管理者又は開設者に対し、その業務に関し報告を求め、又は必要な指示をすることができる。 art-16-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-4/par-1 When a prefectural governor finds it necessary to ensure the proper implementation of the clinical training operations, the governor may request the administrator or establisher of a clinical training hospital to submit a report on its operations, or may give necessary instructions to the administrator or establisher regarding its operations. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、臨床研修の業務の適正な実施を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、第十六条の二第一項に規定する厚生労働大臣の指定する病院の管理者又は開設者に対し、その業務に関し報告を求め、又は必要な措置をとるべきことを請求することができる。 art-16-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-4/par-2 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary to ensure the proper implementation of the clinical training operations, the Minister may request the administrator or establisher of a hospital designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 16-2, paragraph (1) to submit a report on its operations, or to take necessary measures. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16-4/par-2: 第十六条の二第一項 → 医師法 第十六条の二第一項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (1)), art-16-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-2/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医師法 第十六条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-3/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-20261009T095312-002, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 医師法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09