Medical examinations for school and university

In the UK in the 60s and 70s there were routine exams at school (roughly 5, 10, 12 and 14). Not sure they were actually compulsory, but everyone had them and I suspect you (or more precisely your parents) would have had to try hard to get you out of them. Don't think they do that now.

My most embarrassing sports physical happened when I was 14. I reported to the locker room on a Saturday morning with five other guys who tried out for the JV football team. The coach told us to strip to our underpants and head into the gym. In the gym was the school nurse who weighed all of us and got our height. We then went to other stations where nurses and medical students checked us out. At the last station there was a screen set up. The lady at this station was a nurse and the mom of my best friend. She greeted me and said, "Okay sport, step behind the screen and lose the undies, the doctor will be right back to check you for hernia." I did as she said. I waited for a long time Suddenly, an old gray haired man came behind the screen, followed by my friend's mom He kneeled in front of me and started feeling my balls. My mom's friend looked right at me and said, "Okay hon, turn your head and give the doctor a good hard cough." I was embarrassed every time I saw my friend's mom.

The first time I remember being embarrassed was about age 10 when my mom was in the exam room with me for my school physical. I was undressed to my underpants, and the door to the room was wide open. The school ,nurse came in, took me by the hand, and walked me down the hallway to get my height and weight A girl from my school and her mom walked past me as I was on the scale. The girl smirked as she walked by me.

We had examinations every 2 to 3 years. When I was 11 it was very embarrasing because my mother attended. At the next one we were given a letter to take home to tell parents the date and time of the exam. I did not give mine to my parents so they did not find out. It was much less embarrassing without my mother there.

It was much less embarrassing without my mother there.

My mother was also never present when I had my school physicals. For sure I would have found it very embarrassing especially during my teen years.

Mine was at 11 or 12 7th or 8th grade got a full exam by doc! i wanted 2 die bcuz it was a total surprise!

Belgium has em

every 2 years but its just for the publical health

not really much

In Sweden during 60s and 70s I had class examinations when I started school at 7, then when I was 10 and 13. We were told to strip to our underwear and met the doctor one by one along with a nurse. At least when 7 and 13 I remember the doc pulling briefs down checking penis and testicles, at 13 he pulled the foreskin back. That was never really embaressing - just a little annoying.

My last two exams were the worst; firstly totally unexpectedly in the US, as an exchange student; I was totally naked in front of two grown up, unfamiliar men, as the father of my host family was present too.

The last one was back in Sweden when I attended Gymnasium. The nurse had called me for exams several times, but I never showed up. When finally giving in she gave me a hard time; I had to strip completely in front of an old, retired doctor and she'd let the door wide open to the adjacent room where a whole class were undressing. I was 18 at the time.

Thanks for sharing your experience, Mesterton, from the neighbor country. Do you know, do they still have regular school physicals in Sweden?

Baraja, I think it differs a lot, from school to school, from adminstration to administration. In those days there were practically no private schools in Sweden, now about 1/3 is. Today exams are more of an offer, 30 years ago they were mandatory under the School Law.

At age 9 went to boarding school. With the doctor and nurse in the room was examined from head to toe. The first of many!

I know there are many countries in which these exams are voluntary but still 'compulsory'. If school offers/requires an exam, you can't miss the call, really.

I think most states in the U.S. required students to have an up-to-date set of vaccinations. But that is usually done by your private physician, not at the school. The school simply requires that you have the paperwork to prove that you are up-to-date.

But when it comes to compulsory school physicals in the U.S., I think those days are gone. I'm not aware of any school systems that require that. Other than, of course, sports physicals. Everywhere you go in the U.S. it is required to have a pre-participation physical exam before you can play any organized sports in school. The physical may be done by your own physician, or the school may organize group exams done at the school. It all depends on the school really.

Here is what i have found:

Under Pennsylvania state law, every 6th grader must undergo a physical exam with a family doctor or at school. School officials said that the 59 girls had not turned in reports from their own doctors.

Kansas state law requires all children 8 years old and younger, or any student enrolling in a Kansas School for the first time have written proof of a physical examination.The physical examination must be done within 12 months before school enrollment or within 90 days after school enrollment.

Students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade who are making their initial entry into a Florida school must present a record of a physical examination completed within the past 12 months. The exam record should be taken to the child's school upon enrollment. Although a specific form is not required, it is recommended that Florida's standardized School Entry Exam form (DH 3040) be used to document completion of a physical examination. It must be completed by a health care provider licensed to perform physical examinations. For students transferring to a Florida school, a comparable form from another state would be acceptable, if completed within 1 year.

thats just a sampel of what i found online...

During preteen and teenage because it was embarrassing to show changing and growing body parts to someone else.

One winter I reviewed page by page two British medical weeklies BMJ (British Medical Journal) and The Lancet. I did this from 1824 to the 2004. In the mid to late 19th centuries tabulations were made yearly of physical examination results i.e. carious teeth, hernias, heart murmurs - this up until the right after WW II. After that these tabulations were dropped. From many discussions with folks here I wonder if the practice has totally been discontinued. Here in the US there seems to be legislatively mandated exams in some of the eastern states like Pennsylvania and New York, likewise in Illinois - the principal exam population now are student athletes - somewhere I saw a number 9,700,000 per year (I think in JAMA)

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I was 7 years old. I was told to strip to my underpants. He made me do all these exercise in front of him. Then I stood by his side and he pulled my underpants off. He examined my little cock and balls - I started to get hard, I though I was going to cry I was so embarassed!

My school medicals where 5-11-15 i think the most embarasing one had to be at 11 a group of boys were lined up outside th MI room boys would come out looking very embarased, the dor opened and the male nurse called names out 4 of us went in we were taken behind some screens and told to strip down to our underpants and waight until called , most embarasing part wos when the doctor pulled my underpants down and pulled my forskin back, and made me cough twice then the worst he ordered me to turn round and bend over he then pulled my underpants down and patred my buttocks and looked at my anus for whot seamed for a long time.

In New York State it was mandatory that physicals were done in school. I think you had an option that your parent can take you to your family doctor...but nobody gave us that choice.

In NY, I think the first time was in middle school in 7th grade. We were called down in Alphabetical order by our last names. Girls would go separately from the boys. A group of 20 of us boys would get to the nurses office and would be told to get undressed to our undies. Back in the 80's we all wore tighty whities. The doctor would be behind a medical screen. You would stand in line. Once it was your turn, the nurse would have you go onto the scale, weigh you and took your height. Then you would walk behind the screen and a doctor would be sitting in a chair. He would listen to your heart..have you turn around and listen to your lungs. Then he would look into your throat and say ah. While still standing he felt around your stomach and then he would tell you he's going to remove your undies...he would remove them and then he would tell you to stand and spread your legs a bit...he would feel your testicles and palpate the shaft of your penis and then hand you back your undies and that was it.

In high school, all the boys were called down in 10th grade this happen again. However, in High School there was a table. The same thing would happen, we were called down...about 20 boys. The nurse would measure us and then we would go into another room with a table. The same doctor would have us sit on the exam table and he would do the same test but he would have us stand and do the cough test.

I went to school in NYS and while you needed a physical at certain years in school, you did not have to have it done in school. Your family doctor could always do it if you chose. I always had it done by my family physician.

When i was 14 in secondary school i had a half body check to see if my breasts where growing properly .

for a 14 year old it was embarresing as i was not even thinking about boys or sex .

i didnt really know about the birds and the bee's untill i was older

To "mboyd77" : your mandatory physicals in middle and high schools in the state of New York were not so weird.

If I have well understood you, you were only exposed to your classmates and the school nurse for the first part of the exam in the nurse'office when you were semi-naked still wearing tighty whities as it was still the use in the 80's (for me, it was in the 60's in France and all students wore only white briefs) and after when you were really naked or when you pulled down your underwear for the check of the genitals, it was behind a curtain or in an other room and only in front of the doctor, so no other person could see you in that situation. The nurse was not here to assist the doctor.

it could have been worse if you had been completely naked in front of a large group of your classmates and of a nurse and a lady doctor and why not your PE teacher as I have sometimes known in school physicals in the 60's.

to " geeser34": it might be frequent that the parents opted for school physicals due to cost.

It was more embarrassing to be examined by group of four boys all together in the room exam.

but you were only exposed to one nurse school, so I presume that she might perform only a quick examination, not so thorough as a doctor could have done?

at what age did you have these exams by group of four?

Most embarrassing was at school around 9 or 10 . there was a rumour at playtiem that one of the boys - blond haired boy - think his name was nicolas. he said he had been told to take off his underpants as well s his torusers. this got us worried. I went red when he told me to lift uy t shirt right up whilst he listened to my chest but then almost died when he said 'good boy,right pop your trouser off for me and lie on my bed. i fumbled to undo the button and zip but thoguht i had to cus he is the doctor. he smiled and helped my up and kept reassuring me tht it was Ok. i ha cream pants on and he pulled them down to umcover my tummy. i was a skinny thng and it mant that u coudl se down thme but he said that he wanted to have a good feel of teh bottom part of my tummy as well as the top. just when i thought it was all over it was not . stand up for me now - he said - well down, u are doing so so well. now can u pop thise pants down for the doctor mow? its ok , he said, just going to have a little feel of your willy. he began howeer with my balls - used to call them nuts. he said to me looking right into my eyes that "now Tom you should have 2 little balls in here. can we have a little see.? an with that very gently he used the fingert tips of his hands to press my tight sack. that was the embarrasssing bit.turns me on rememembering

School exams all the time in the fifties and sixties,they used to have a travelling medical team that visited schools in my day.

I had an exam while in College. The doctor walked in and told me to get undressed. He did the usuall stuff and then had me take off my underwear to finish up.

Here in Spain we have very different situation depending on the school. In my school all years we have to pass a complete physical exam by school doctor. I remember it as a bad experiences because you have to undress in front of all the class.

Teacher took us in 10 persons group to the nurse office. There we had a place like a locker room when all people undress to our underwear. Then a nurse called us one at a time to be examined by the doctor.

So once inside doctor room they check weight, height, measures, and then he checked the spine, bending over to touch you feet while he examines you back.

Then seated on a small chair he examined eyes, nose, ears and lymph nodes. Also the doctor auscultated heart and lungs while seated.

And the worst part. The doctor indicated us to take of our underwear and lye on the table. There he touched our abdomen and then examined our pennis and testicles thoroughly.

All of us hated this yearly exam.

I had to get a physical at the university health center to enter grad school in the mid 1970s. A nurse took me to an exam room. After getting my height, weight, oral temp, blood pressure, pulse, and respirations, she asked, "Are you wearing underpants?" I nodded and she said, "Leave your undies on but everything else needs to come off, including jewelry and socks. Then have a seat on the exam table. You will be seeing our new lady doc. She has just come to the U.S. from Israel where she was a doctor in the Israeli army." With that she left the room and closed the door. I had never been examined by a lady doctor but did not have time to think about it as the door opened. In came a huge woman in her 30s. She was not obese but was over 6 feet tall and built like a battle ship. She was not ugly but she was very stern looking. She had on an old fashioned dress. She introduced herself and then stood and asked me a bunch of questions about my health, including if I was sexually active. She was hard to understand. She then began the exam, starting with my head and working south. After having me lay on my back and pressing on my stomach she told me to sit up. I thought we were done. She went to a desk in the room, sat down, and began filling out a form. She then came back to me. "You now stand and, ah, how you say, take down your, ah, your panties. Ah no, panties for the ladies, you take down briefs." I did as she told me, now standing completely naked and red faced. She knelt in front of me and without warning took my penis with her bare fingers and felt it all over, moving her face within inches of it. She asked, "Are you a Jew?" I said no and she said, "You have good circumcision just like Israeli boys." She then felt my testicles, rolling each between her thumb and forefinger. Next she jammed her finger up my sac said, "Turn head and cough hard." She repeated this on the other side, this time having me cough several times. She then had me turn around and bend over, pulling my butt cheeks apart. She just looked. Then she stood up and had me do several exercises, including jumping jacks, running in place, toe touches, knee bends, and a duck walk, with me still totally naked. She then listened to my heart and said, "You strong like ox. Get dressed and go to lab to give blood." As I watched her leave the room I was stunned. It was the first time I looked to my left since when she walked in. The door was wide open and a fully-clothed coed in the exam room across the hall was seated on the exam table facing so she could see into my exam room. I had no idea how much of my exam she had seen. The doctor closed the door and I dressed, leaving the university health center with embarrassing memories. A few days later I saw the coed in the cafeteria. She had a big grin as she saw me and I passed her.

I was 11 and had just started at a new school when all my class received letters saying we needed to go for a school medical. They were to be held at a city centre clinic and we needed to be accompanied by a parent.The day came and we arrived at the clinic to be directed to the appropriate office. As we walked in my face dropped - there sat only in white underpants was one of my classmates. I immediately realised I faced the same embarrassment of being seen like this not just by a doctor and nurse but also by other parents and some of my classmates. Very soon, the nurse appeared, told me to take everything off except my underpants and then wait there. She asked my classmate to come across the room where I could see her weigh him, measure him and test his eyesight. I finished undressing - leaving just my brief white underpants on and sat down, not knowing what to say to my mother. Then the office door opened and another of classmates emerged - again in just his underwear. He'd just seen the doctor.Soon it was my turn as I puzzled over why a boy had to be in his underwear to have his eyes tested. And then walking past my classmate who was now dressing, it was into the doctor.

He listened to my chest, tested my reflexes and then suddenly reached over and eased down my underpants. He quickly felt my testicles and examined my penis before asking me to cough. Then it was all over and he told me I could go and get dressed. Another classmate had now arrived and I could see the look on his face as I emerged nearly naked. I'd never been as embarrassed but I knew I'd also enjoyed it. Maybe the others did too but we never mentioned that afternoon to each other again.

Instead of being examined at school, I had to get a medical certificate from my own doctor. By far the most embarrassing part was after the examination itself, when I had to pull down my pants and bend over his receptionist's lap for a booster shot. Worst of all was when I was about 14 and his beautiful teenaged daughter was acting receptionist during the school holidays. I really fancied her and craved her respect, which I knew would be forfeit if she held me across her lap and watched me get a shot in the bare bottom.

No compulsory exams here in the US, except for the mandatory annual checkup if the student wants to play a sport.