Circumcision status on an exam form

Yeah. I wonder how many boys that found out when they got an assignment like that at school, went straight home and asked "you did WHAT to me?"

I've very seldom come across "exam forms", I believe the only ones were for military enrollment and I think (this was 30 years ago) that they just had "genito-urinary tract" without precision; During the only briefs-down examination I had to take for this purpose, the doctor did not say anything about it.

This is what I found in the electronic records system that my physician started using a couple of years ago.

Clinical Summary > Current Health Status > Genitourinary > Penis > Normal (checkbox), Circumcised (another checkbox)

Clinical Summary > Current Health Status > Genitourinary > Prepuce > Normal (checkbox), Excised (another checkbox)

Clinical Summary > Surgeries and Hospitalizations > Surgeries > Outpatient > Circumcision > Redundant Prepuce (checkbox)

After reading through these, I decided to look at my own visit notes. To my surprise, it did note "circumcised". My doctor became part of a larger network a few years ago and seems to have joined their processes. The notes are online and follow the same format yearly, with most of the same feedback. I haven't seen what he's filling out on the computer, but the repetitive nature leads me to believe it's checkboxes or pull downs.

For the physical exam portion the report, it is divided into sections (neck, cardiovascular, chest, genitourinary, etc.). Each section is further broken down (genitourinary: pubic area, penis, testes, etc.) with each having some comments. Looking back a few years, the results are the same, with the "penis" subsection staring with circumcised, followed by additional standard notes.

The only area where I notice changes is occasionally some of the main sections will have a "comments" subsection added in bold. This year, my genitourinary section had the comments: residual foreskin noted easily retracted, glans without rash or lesion, testes descended bilaterally 3+/5, firm. I found this interesting because I've mentioned in previous visits that my penis seems to have shrunk, often appearing uncircumcised. We've discussed it as well, but this was the year it was noted.

In my medical history from Spain, especially the physical exams, it doesn't mention anything or doesn't ask. But in the US, some do specify that it, and in others it is mentioned by the doctor during the physical exam. Sometimes with a brief explanation of what he saw. The document that caught my attention the most because I didn't know of its existence was the medical exam for the US immigration visa.

In that one, the information is broken down in more detail.

It includes weight, height, muscle mass, hearing test, vision test. You can read about minor previous operations, and my mom answers circumcision, meatoplasty and orchidopexy.

The doctor then provides a summary of his visual assessment of the physical examination.

This is such a fascinating discussion. I did not realize that doctors not only observed circumcision status during the exam, but also recorded it in their notes. I don't think this is common in the US, and in fact, I have never had any physician rolling my foreskin back during an exam (to be fair, my foreskin does have a mind of its own and can retract when I get an erection).

@abcguy Checking for proper retraction of the foreskin of uncircumcised boys during physicals was I think quite common some decades ago (with recommendations to parents to act if it remained stuck) in European countries, and I suspect in the US too, but I don't think it would be common for adult men.