Being examined as an exchange student away from home

I have seen some posts about this topic here and there, but I wonder how many of you guys had the experience of being an exchange student in a foreign country or even in a different city in your country, and find yourselves being examined for some reason other than being ill.

It happened to me when I was 15. I was sent to the States to a small Jewish community with few other boys from my school. I was very active in our local youth movement and the idea was to serve as a counselor in the Jewish summer camp. I was very excited about it and the whole trip was kind of adventure, being abroad on my own for the first time. We all had local families that hosted us for the first week. Mine were really nice guys and they had a sun about my age that was going to be on the same camp with me.

Three days before we had to leave for camp, the family dad told both of us that the doctor appointment is due this evening. He spoke as if I should understand what he meant. I didn't. My friend saw my face and explained that we should get our health certificate stamped by the pediatrician if we wanted to go on the camp. It was just formality and there's nothing to be worry about. The fact was that when we came to the pediatrician's office we both got some serious examination. The doctor was not willing to sign the form without checking us, and he said (and was right about it) that he didn't know me at all. So, he examine me head to tows with my new friend and his dad in the room (though I don't think they saw me too good) the doctor did all the usual checks and when I was on my back on the table he lowered my briefs and palpated my testicles for few seconds. It was both strange and irritating because I wanted to go to camp and had no choice but to comply with this embarrassing surprise.

I love to hear from other guys who had this kind of experience.

Yes I was very surprisingly examined too, at the age of 16, visting the States. My host dad took me to the High school i was supposed to attend a couple of days before the semester started. I was introduced to the principal and some of the staff and shown around. Just before leaving I was told the doctor wanted to see me. I protested some, because the exchange program already had me examined before leaving for the States, but they said this was something else.

It was strange being told to drop my pants in front of an old doc and the father of the host family, him watching as I had my foreskin retracted. I always have had the feeling that the both took the opportunity to take good glimpse,

This also happened to me, when I¨had to go to local doctor for a physical, before joining the High school Cross country

team varsity. I¨did not know it was coming before the doc put on a latex glove on one hand. He told me to pull down my briefs and turn my head and cough.My host family started talking abouth my physical, during dinner the same day.

They started asking about details, I¨think this was unprofessional of the host family.

My host family started talking abouth my physical, during dinner the same day. They started asking about details, I¨think this was unprofessional of the host family.

That does seem like a very strange topic for conversation at the dinner table. How did you handle the situation? Did you tell them what happened, and what the doctor did to you during the physical?

I had an exam as an exchange student in Russia once. It wasn't a surprise, cause I had been told before that there would be an exam in the receiving state, but it was still akward. My guest mum took me to some sort of polyclinic for it. In the exam room there was the female doctor (around 50 years old) and the nurse (in her thirties) sitting behind a table. First there was a lot of talking, done mostly by my guest mum as my Russian wasn't very good. Then I was told by the doctor to take all my clothes off. There was nothing to change behind, so I had to take all my clothes off in front of the three women. Then I had to do various exercises completely naked in front of them. Next the doctor came to me and started feeling my neck, joints, ect. Then I had to bent over for my spine to be checked. After that she told me to lie down on the exam table and she checked my feet and legs and so on and it felt like ages that I was lying there naked. Finally when I thought that that must have been it, she turned around to my guest mum and said something. My guest mum got up and came to the exam table and so did the nurse. The doctor then took my penis in her hand and rectracted my foreskin in full sight of my guest mum while she was explaining something about it to her. She moved the foresking forth and back once or twice and started feeling the shaft. My penis began to pulsate and became semihard. Then she took my testicles in her hand and felt them, while still the other two women watched and commented on it. When the doctor had finished she was still explaining something about "boys" and "hygiene" to my guest mother - and only after that I was finally allowed to put my clothes back on.

Hey jim

how old were you? in what grade? were you fully developed?

I was 15, my last year at school and I had gone over Germany as an exchange student. We were out shopping when I suddenly came down with serve stomach pains and I got taken to the local hospital. My German friend stayed outside and the doctor started to ask me about what was wrong. Up to that point I could only hold a simple conversation. He was getting frustrated, and I was getting more scared every time her raised his voice in frustration. My friend had to come in and translate. I had to lay there naked when he gave me a complete physical and I was so shy being so intimately examined in front of her. Thankfully it was an infection that could be treated with tablets and did not require a stay in hospital.

Hey avnerico,

I was 16 years old at that time, so I was in the 10th grade. And I'd dare say I was already fully developed at that time.

Yes I was very surprisingly examined too, at the age of 16, visting the States... It was strange being told to drop my pants in front of an old doc and the father of the host family, him watching as I had my foreskin retracted. I always have had the feeling that the both took the opportunity to take good glimpse,

On another forum, I heard something a bit similar about a Belgian male exchange student who went to the US. I surmise, and would not be that surprised that the reason the doc and possibly host father took the oppurtunity to have a ´good glimpse´ was that, just as I heard about the Belgian´s experience, it had to do with him being un-circumcised.

In fact, the un-circumcised condition of the exchange student caused enough interest for both the high school sports coach and principal, to urge and recommend he have himself circumcised.

I took part in a school exchange program to the States. A few days after my arrival (still before attending high school) my guest dad told me that I had to undergo a routine medical exa like all participants of the program. My guest dad drove me to the doctor and I was nervous. He just said, it’s just a quick routine check up and it won’t last long. because of that it was ok for me that my guest dad also was present in the exam room. I had to strip to underwear the doc examined me. Even that was ok for me, because - I mean - its like being at a pool and like wearing swim wear. But then the doctor told me to take my shorts off. I was shocked. He repeated to take them off and I did. I felt really embarrassed. I think my guest dad too but he watched nevertheless. The doc palpated my scrotum and testicles and pulled back foreskin back a few times. I felt so embarrassed. My guest dad and me never talked about it. He saw me completely naked and saw my most intimate body parts.

In Highschool I was taking part in an exchange program with England. During one of the educational trips I got sick and one teacher acompanied me back to the school. There the school nurse gave me a quick check up. Nothing crazy, just vitals and stuff.

Second occasion I got an exam abroad was as a university student during my exchange semester. The exchange Programm required a health certificate from the university medical center. This time I got a full exam head to toe, including a hernia check and genital exam. The exams were done by medical students under the supervision of one senior doctor