College Physical Exam Forms

My college physical was performed by my doctor the month before I went to college and was a very thorough exam.

I somehow just never sent in the forms for my college physical and then transferred after my first year and the new school never asked.

I know Gentleman Doctors that look forward to the College and Back to School Physical Examination Season which is upon us now. They find the requirement of Schools and Colleges to be a big Bonus for them personally. After all seeing nice looking young guys and gals in the exam room from stern to stern is AWESOME.

I had a pretty thorough exam that included everything as well, it wasn't my first time but my understanding from some of my girlfriends is that for many this was the first time they had a full pelvic exam etc.

Not sure why it is that way except the it is sort of a "right of passage" since how my vagina is doing really shouldn't impact my ability to perform as a student, though I do get why it is important to get immunizations etc. checked considering how close everyone is going to be living.

I know Gentleman Doctors that look forward to the College and Back to School Physical Examination Season which is upon us now.

I believe you are probably right. There's some segment of the doctors and nurses out there that really enjoy their work (nothing wrong with that) and probably look forward to this time of year.

Would love tp picture the college guys going for their exams

Good for a guy, especially one that has not been in sports, to get a complete and thorough physical before he goes to college. Preference would be to have male doctor to give the exam.

I agree. All men need to have an exam!

These colleges seem thorough -

http://www.bhc.edu/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/08/physical_form.pdf

http://www.mesabirange.edu/assets/files/depts/football/Athletic_Physical_Examination.pdf

Wow! I am amazed at the thoroughness of some of these forms! It almost makes me disappointed that I never had such a thorough exam before college!! I can certainly understand some of the requested information but I really wonder how many physicians actually perform a prostate exam on these young 20 year olds... Perhaps a visual inspection of their rectum during the genital exam but I bet there are a lot of N/A or blank fields for the rectal exams. Though, knowing how I feel about the excitement of an impending genital exam, I would be disappointed if I didn't get my rectal! Thanks for the forms!

The link in the original post for this topic no longer works. Here is the new one:

https://www.unh.edu/health-services/sites/unh.edu.health-services/files/media/PDF/PhysicalExamForm2013.pdf

I like that form from Blackhawk College Athletics because they break the genital exam down into the components scrotum, penis, and hernia. The form also does not include a check box for "normal" or "abnormal" so that the doctor has to write in his assessment of each body part. I suspect quite a few doctors would write in "circumcised" or "uncircumcised" on the line for "penis." I would find this really stimulating to read the form after my exam if the doctor wrote a notation about my circumcision status.

I like the one from Franklin Pierce University. Good template for a playdoc.

I went to two well known universities; a medium size Jesuit university for undergraduate and a large public research university for graduate school. Both universities required physicals after acceptance and before you could register for classes. Every college I know of has the same requirement. Also for public high school if you played sports they really made us have a complete exam; I assume because if you had some physical problem and dropped dead they wanted to cover the school board’s ass if you had a preexisting condition.

College physicals make sense on several levels really; at both schools you paid a “Student Health Fee” every semester or quarter and you were 100% covered by their health center insurance. Where I went to undergraduate if you needed surgery, etc. they sent you to a local hospital about a mile from the school. One of my friends had to have an emergency appendectomy junior year and it didn’t cost him a cent for the hospital or operation. Where I went to grad school the university also had a medical school and its own hospital on the same campus. Both schools had all our medical records on hand and they had to make sure relatively healthy students were attending or the medical care cost would go out of line with the health fee. Not to mention dorms are breeding grounds for every communicable disease you can think of, they didn’t want anyone coming in that would infect the whole place especially foreign students.

I did find something funny especially at the Jesuit University; both schools your STD screening had to be no more than 30 days before registration and both schools were still crawling with the clap.

Wow, as a non-American, this is very interesting to read. There are no such exams in the country where I studied so I never had to experience someting like this. I wonder, why do American colleges require such exams? Is it important beacuse of heath insurance? Or some other reasons?

I like that form from Blackhawk College Athletics because they break the genital exam down into the components scrotum, penis, and hernia.

Agreed - it's not hard to imagine that some guys might see that form before their physical too. There must be some guys very nervous beforehand, knowing that they will inevitably be required to take down their pants for a detailed examination of their penis and scrotum.

I also like the form of the Blackhawk College Athletics. For me the female exam is much more interesting. It looks like the exams there are very thorough, they also break it down to components like Breasts, Vulva, Vagina, ...

It´s nice to imagine how these nice, sporty girls get there exam 😃

This isn't the case for most colleges. Perhaps it is for the more 'exclusive!' private colleges. But for anything, and that's a good amount of college, around here you barely even need the physical. Just shot records. The "physical" for sports students is a baseline for heart rate and vitals. Nothing detailed what-so-ever.

Unfortunately I never had to have an entrance exam for any of the three colleges I attended. The closest I ever got was needing to have a TB test and immunizations up to speed. Missed out on all the fun exam forms and exams that go along with them. Bummer!

It is a little depressing though for some isn't it? But at least they don't hold illness against you anymore. Does anyone know why they even started requiring physicals for schooling?

Does anyone know why they even started requiring physicals for schooling?

The reason is straightforward.

They want to be sure you are well enough for transporting yourself around the school and for other activities you may engage in and that you don't have communicable diseases.

All I got in college was a TB test.

I remember getting a physical before college. No form that I can remember? If anything, it was just something for him to sign. Nothing like a checklist.

Does anyone know why they even started requiring physicals for schooling?.

Medical examinations in school were not especially started for scholastic activities, though it would make sense to make sure that serious contagious diseases like TB were discovered as early on as possible.

The main reason had to do with ensuring healthy recruits for later (obligatory) military service. Since military service traditionally started upon graduation or at 18 to 20 years of age, if authorities wanted to do anything to improve the health of recruits, it had to be done while still in school. And since good health is a long term issue, that meant starting as young as possible.

Aside from the military aspect, school exams were naturally beneficial when looked at in a collectively social way. No one in society benefits from a large number of (chronically) ill people or from outbreaks of contagious diseases.

Schools were simply a convenient venue to ensure that all or as many as possible youngsters were examined.

I had an interesting chat with a guy who got an exam every year through his college fraternity. A brother who went on to become a doctor would come back each fall to not only examine all the pledges, but do exams for all the brothers. What he described was very organized and not just some hazing ritual. Did anyone get their exams during college at their fraternity / sorority house or who did you go to for physicals while in college?

Now we have a lot of information about the medical forms, especially the form of Black Hawk College...smile. Would it be interesting to find such completed forms? Is there just a tick set or what is there listed?

Agreed - it's not hard to imagine that some guys might see that form before their physical too. There must be some guys very nervous beforehand, knowing that they will inevitably be required to take down their pants for a detailed examination of their penis and scrotum.

You are exactly correct about the fact that seeing the form in advance would make the guys nervous in advance. I can clearly recall receiving an admissions packet from the university which I planned to attend. My heart sank when I saw a physical exam form among the pages. I quickly looked through the form and felt a sick feeling when I saw that one of the checklist items as "genitalia and hernia (males)." I got a physical for sports with my pediatrician every August and I--correctly--guessed the doctor would make me repeat the examination rather than filling it out based on the exam five months earlier. I always dreaded the genital exposure but to have to walk around for a couple of weeks until my appointment knowing it was hanging over my head was depressing.

Don't recall that being needed for my school (Jesuit), and definitely not for my grad school.

Don't know why they'd care about genitalia beyond hernia or prostate at that age.

Unfortunately none of the links seem to work any more.

Whilst I didn't have to have an actual physical exam as part of my college enrolment I was anxious that I had to tick the box and sign to say that they could ask my GP for access to my medical records.

I dreaded the thought that they would see the records of all the embarrassing treatment that I was having. Of course much later I found out that they only ever request records in exceptional circumstances, but I wasn't aware of that when I attended my interview and wondered just how much the person across the desk knew about me.

I see the exam form also has "rectal" which is a bit different from "anus" and I wonder what they did to check the rectum??