Jobs that require an Exam

My question is to all... in your experiences of employment what type of jobs have required you to have a pre employment or annual physical exam as a requirement?

I have seen jobs recently such as a position of a purchasing assistant at a hospital, to jobs such as construction that all require exams.

I as a local club promoter decided all male dancer I hire must complete a physical exam as well!!

I've never had an exam. Been drug tested a few times, but nothing more.

And physicals for male dancers make sense - what about physicals for the dj?

Djboy,

Are you performing the physicals or just going to observe 😄

Jackie

I am going to be a teacher, and I have to go through an exam, when I want to become a public servant. This exam is very important and you are not allowed to tell the doctor any problems,otherwise you don`t get as much money as other teachers.

I have never had to have an exam for any kind of employment, but the jobs I have had are pretty standard.

I can understand an exam for a male dancer, but why would it be so important for a teacher? Is it because of the teacher being around children? (No offense meant, I am just curious)

I had very simple physicals when I was a student and had a summer job at my dad's plant (late 70s , early 80s).

My wife is a RN and is required to have a complete check up every year.

I could understand physical for me the DJ/club promoter. I also do the sound and lighting designs! Which requires heavy lifting at times. Its not exactly easy to install and wire all the equipment in. However..like most other nightclubs you are usually just paid cash and are just a part time employee. I did have one club owner who asked me detailed questions about any drug usage, and drinking habits. However..I hardly drink. So they like that. and NEVER have done drugs! I try to always be a good boy!! 😃

NO I dont perform them. I have gone with a few of the guys into the exam room to observe. Some of the guys are relaxed about it and are ok.. sometimes they are kinda reluctant at first but then remember I have inspected their bodies only visually as part of their audition. and at some point will see them in the dressing rooms changing.

Djboy is the doctor that performs the exams male or female? Also do they have to put on a gown, and have any of them got erections?

The doctor is male. They are instructed to put on a gown. and one of them did get a semi erection.

Alot of public servant jobs (teachers, bus drivers, truck drivers, nurses, doctors... etc... ) all require physical exams. The depth of these physicals vary. Sometimes if you work with kids you're required to receive certain tests ie TB and a Urinalysis for drugs etc.

In my experience as a bus driver, we get physicals every year, although they aren't truly proper physicals with the whole take your clothes off and put this gown on. Even my first physical was just a cursory once over fully clothed. In my physical they do things like check your sight and hearing, then check to make sure you can move your arms and legs and that you have strength. This year the doctor pressed a little on my abdomen, but i was sitting up so i dont know how complete that was. They listen to heart and lungs.. take bp and temp.. and pronounce you good to go after a brief medical history. The whole exam process maybe takes 10 minutes and I was in there with 5 other people lined up to be examined.

That's pretty much the same experience as mine for work. When we used to have our own Occupational Health Department it was more thorough (both the exam and any extra tests if they suspected something), but when it was contracted out to an outside company I'm sure they let anyone through who had a pulse.

My job required me to submit a urine sample for a drugs and alcohol test. The first time it was done I had to empty my pockets, pee in the cup and not flush the toilet. The second time they didn't even ask me to empty my pockets, so I could have carried a clean sample in with me (I didn't, by the way!).

I'll also support the public servant example. My girlfriend just got an office job with the government. Even though she just had her yearly physical a month before she was hired, they are requiring her to receive another one by their doctor. I am guessing this is for insurance purposes and everyone is required to get one. She is only 24 so it wouldn't be health related or anything. The impression she got from HR was that it was going to be a through one with a pelvic exam and everything. She is not pleased about it.

I have a CDL drivers license and have high blood pressure controlled by meds. This combination requires a physical every year with all the usual tests and checks including checking for a hernia and rectal exam.

Prior to be hired as a bank officer years ago I had to get a physical with a doctor selected by the bank. I thought it would be a quick and simple exam.... just breathe on a mirror to make sure I was alive.

I got three surprises that day. The first one was when the RN told me to "strip naked" (her words) and then she handed me a paper gown. The second surprise was when a very attractive doctor in her mid 30s entered the exam room. The third surprise was when the RN remained in the room during the entire physical.

After the the RN took my temperature rectally the paper gown disappeared. The doctor wasn't shy about touching me. She examined my genitals while I laid on my back with my feet flat on the table. She checked my prostate as I was standing on the little step at the end of the table. I was bent over and my chest was resting on the exam table while my butt was in the air.

The physical was very thorough -- and I didn't have to breathe on a mirror!

I had one when I was 16 and went to work as a dishwasher in a nursing home. I think it had more to do with them worried about TB and hepatitis than anything else.

I have to have a physical exam every year for my job in order to keep my insurance rates low and affordable. they check blood pressure, heart rate, stamina, and strength. because it is tough sometimes to pull the vinyl skins over the seats.

One particular Truck Company in the US has started requiring their drivers to have a sleep study done for sleep apnea if they show signs of being sleepy or drowsy during the day. If someone stops breathing or has shallow breathing for periods of time while sleeping their oxygen level in the blood decreases and they don't get adequate sleep. The next day they feel poorly and can fall asleep frequently. Therefore, they are at risk for having a traffic accident. If the physician determines that they do have the diagnosis of Sleep Apnea they are required to use a breathing machine at night. If the driver doesn't comply then they are terminated.

I had one job exam. Urine drug test and vitals sings that is it.

I've worked for five cities in the same state. One of them required a very thorough physical. One required a very minimal one. The others required none at all.

I think it depends the job...,and the insurance (that is the first reason to do you a medical exam).Sure medical exams in dangerous jobs, I think.

When you have a job in a German hopital, there will be evry 2 years a job exam. But only blood samples, blood presure and upper chest examination are included. And if required a TBC Test.

Some hospitals I worked in required a physical every year, and it had to be done right on the job by the house doctor. They just plucked you right off the floor and told you they wanted you to come down to the ER for a physical. It was pretty thorough. They did everything short of a pelvic exam. I guess the pelvic wasn't required, but they always asked if they could do one, and I always refused. I don't think any of the other female employees consented to have the pelvic done either. What I hated the most about these physicals on the job was that we had to sit down at the dinner table with our "examiners" afterward. Sometimes they would discuss it with you at dinner as well, and to me...that was just too embarrassing. I always tried to avoid sitting with them at dinner any way I could.

I think this sounds amazing! wish i had that job!

It was all the time done with a notice 2 or 3 weeks before.

And never any intensive examination like GYN for female or testicle or prostate for male.

Many of the jobs for which I have applied, required physicals before employment was offered. My work is in medical sales and sales management. These have been great because they are done by contracted doctors to which I have been sent rather than a doctor of my choosing. Having a strange doctor do a physical is always more exciting because there is the element of the unknown. You do not know what the doctor looks like and what his routine is. Also, having another person see the genitalia who has never seen them before is anxiety producing.

Most jobs i have have wanted medical

My last two jobs have demanded a physical.

The earlier job demanded a pre-employment physical.

This included a blood test, X-ray of the chest, a look at the throat, under the lower eyelid and a stethoscope exam of the front and back of the torso.

Then a technician, a rather slow chap, asked me for my stool sample.

I expressed surprise and told him, rather aggressively, that I had already been for my morning dump so if he'd wanted that he should have informed me earlier.

Or he could come to my home the next morning and jolly well harvest my shit himself!!

He looked all confused for a moment, then nodded his head and went ahead and just took a blood and urine sample.

The doctor himself did not spend more than a few minutes with me before handing me to the technician for the samples.

My last job did not require a pre-emp, or an annual physical.

They had gone in for a Life and Medical insurance program for which we were all sent off for a physical because the insurance company insisted on it.

This time, besides the vitals and the blood and urine samples (they did not ask for a stool sample) they also did an ECG and then made me run on a treadmill with all the probes hanging from my chest.

The doctor looked at my form and asked me if I had hernia or hydrocele. I said no, but he was welcome to check.

He looked at my face to see if I was serious. Then decided against checking for himself.

Pity!

However, I have heard that jobs in hotels and airlines require annual physicals - but it's hearsay.

But I do know for a fact that oil companies do. Here's how:

In the late 1970's, a friend of mine's cousin, a bright young woman - much older than me (I was a teenager in high school then and found her very pretty) - had landed a job with a major oil company. She was being sent off to their refinery located in a remote part of the country as her first posting.

She'd had done her pre-employment physical in her home town itself but had to visit the HQ (in the city where my friend and I live) for her induction program and to present her original documents (like certificates, etc) for their verification and record.

She was called by the HR lady and when she met her was told that there was another piece of her medical remaining - only because she was going to a place that entitled her to a 'hardship allowance' because of its remote location and the odd hours.

She was assured that it would not take much time and the clinic was just a short walk away.

She just nodded her head and took the address of the clinic and went there immediately after her meeting with the HR lady, her last for the day.

At the clinic, to her surprise, horror and grief, she was given an injection for cholera, typhoid and paratyphoid (this was a single injection) in one arm and a tetanus injection in the other.

Finally they gave her a smallpox vaccination on her forearm. Those were the days when they still gave cholera and smallpox inoculations - even for foreign travel.

She came home and tearfully showed us her arms where she had received the injections. She complained bitterly about how painful the injections were and how she hated needles. She cursed the HR lady for not telling her about the injections - and herself for not asking for details before going to the clinic.

The next day she had a fever and both her arms were stiff. The cholera injection site was swollen as well. My friend and I pampered her with hot cups of tea and her favourite snacks and a hot water bottle for her arms. She enjoyed all the fuss!

Two days later, she left to take over her new job.

I never saw her again, but I still remember this incident.

That's exactly what happens with the oil companies. There is a pre-employment physical, then they have an additional, more thorough, physical on site if you are working at a refinery. That includes an EKG for which you have to be topless, they get all privacy-conscious if you come by occupational health room and someone is in there getting theirs (it's done annually).