The right to work for medical workers in the Russian Federation is limited by many requirements, prohibitions, and conditions. The first part of the article is devoted to the consideration of certain restrictions concerning medical and other education that allows you to be considered a medical professional, as well as the accreditation of a specialist, which (according to the legislator) is a procedure for determining the compliance of a person who has received medical or other education with the requirements for carrying out medical activities in a certain medical specialty. The relevant norms of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the Federal Law “On the Basics of Public Health Protection in the Russian Federation”, as well as regulatory legal acts of federal executive authorities responsible for the development and implementation of state policy and regulatory regulation in the field of healthcare and higher education are analyzed. The opinion is expressed on the need to amend certain norms of federal legislation in order to unambiguously understand the rights of medical workers and restrictions for them related to the implementation of medical activities.