# 医師法 / Medical Practitioners' Act — 第十六条の八 (Article 16-8) - 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: 第十六条の八 (Article 16-8) — address `art-16-8` - Text in force since: 2026-05-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-8 - 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. --- ### 第十六条の八 art-16-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-8 **第一項** この節に規定するもののほか、第十六条の二第一項の指定、第十六条の三第一項及び第三項の研修医の定員の定め、第十六条の六第一項の医籍の登録並びに同条第二項の臨床研修修了登録証の交付、書換交付及び再交付に関して必要な事項は、厚生労働省令で定める。 art-16-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-8/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in this Section, necessary matters related to designation as set forth in Article 16-2, paragraph (1), determination of the quota of clinical trainees as set forth in Article 16-3, paragraph (1) and paragraph (3), registration in the register of medical practitioners as set forth in Article 16-6, paragraph (1), and delivery, replacement, and redelivery of the registration certificate for completion of clinical training as set forth in paragraph (2) of the same Article are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16-8/par-1: 第十六条の三第一項 → 医師法 第十六条の三第一項 (Article 16-3, paragraph (1)), art-16-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-3/par-1 - art-16-8/par-1: 第十六条の六第一項 → 医師法 第十六条の六第一項 (Article 16-6, paragraph (1)), art-16-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-6/par-1 - art-16-8/par-1: 同条第二項 → 医師法 第十六条の六第二項 (Article 16-6, paragraph (2)), art-16-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-6/par-2 - art-16-8/par-1: 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 - art-16-8/par-1: 第三項 → 医師法 第十六条の三第三項 (Article 16-3, paragraph (3)), art-16-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-practitioners-act/art-16-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000201/art-16-3/par-3 ## 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