Annual Exams required for certain occupations?

When I was at school we had annual medicals and they were a requirement in certain occupations. This is now pretty rare.

Does anyone have annual medicals either as a requirement or arrange them with a health provider?

Most branches of the US military require annual physicals after a certain number of years of service, usually 30. Before that physicals are required prior to entry and at each reenlistment.

In my last position, in an integrated steel mill, I was required to have an annual physical, an OSHA requirement in that industry.

In the US, Obamacare attempted to resurrect anual physical exams for everyone, exempting them from deductibles and copays on ALL insurance plans. Dunno how many take advantage - I do!

I arrange for an annual physical with my pcp, usually each april.

Not for my job, but it's just good practice to keep up with it in case things change and you don't realize it.

As far as I know, pilots are still required to have an annual physical.....

We're self employed but Anthony certainly requires we get a physical every year 😃

I've never had to in my other jobs. One of my jobs offered insurance but didn't take advantage of it at that time. Can't remember why.

When we initially signed up for life insurance, we had to have a doctor come out and check our vitals. They came to our house, and filled out the required paperwork.

One of the last bastions of medical exams is for commercial driving. I obtained mine at 21 and had a thorough physical exam as well as drug and alcohol testing every 2 years and depending on the company they contracted with different clinics or hospitals. It goes down to every year at 50 or 55 I believe but I had already stopped commercial driving prior to that.

I have to have a annual physical done in order to carry a commercial driver's license.

And I also get a annual physical done by my regular doctor.

I had to pass a physical exam for flight training and also had to pass a full physical exam prior to working in a hospital.

For a while after I got out of the military, I worked as a contractor and trainer to support military training and operations. It wasn't a Blackwater type of organization - we did stuff like training and field support on new gear, did some security (glorified guard duty) and stuff like that. Assignments ranged from 3 months to a year - and a physical was required before each contract if the assignment was not a garrison job. I sometimes had three physicals a year, always with a clinic contracted by my employer - some ranged from "fog the mirror" to extremely detailed and invasive .

Worked in a business that had a ton of government contracts with certain agencies. Contractors that would go into the field had an extensive physical exam that needed to be completed for every new contract and generally annually after that. Contractors had to have their exams done on their own , they were financially responsible for paying for the and then were reimbursed for their out of pocket costs. Occasionally the government agency the contract was with would require that everyone on the contract also had to have teh same physical exam with a medical provider of their choice.

I never had a field assignment, but for every contact that I was an executive on I had the same exam. I never used my own primary care doctor for this exam. Finding a provider to do the exam was always an adventure as the exam was extensive and everything specified on the exam form needed to be done and signed off by the doctor. On a couple of occasions I had to go to the medical provider the government agency sent us to. Those exams were off the charts detailed and at times incredibly humiliating!