Medical examinations for school and university

"Scotty 95"

I have read your relation about your own experiences of physical exams at school and I am a little surprised by it.

You said that you would be told in PE that you were having a physical that day and asked to strip down to our underwear. Then you walked as a group down the corridor to the gym.

And that "some of the girls had obviously heard what was going on yours on a couple of occasions you were encountered by a group of girls wolf whistling at you which gave you a hard on before you even got in knowing that girls you fancied had seen you whilst you were only wearing your boxer briefs".

What surprises me is not the fact that you had to walk by group in a corridor to go from the locker room to the gym wearing only your boxer briefs, it is rather common for boys like to wait in a corridor their turn to be examined in briefs when it was in an examination room, no big deal, it was a usual group exam, but what surprises me is that the authorities of the school let some girls coming in the corridor to see you and tease at you. For her it was a funny day, I guess that they could not see their male classmates each day in their underwears. ( It would have been worse in real tighty white briefs like in a recent past or in jockstraps with your naked butts completely exposed.)

I would have found it rather normal if it had been accidentally that some girls walking in the corridor had seen you because their teacher would have not been informed that you had that day your physical but you said that on the reverse it was well known and it was why some girls came to see you!

And they were not supervised since they could whistle at you!

I am really surprised that there was not more discipline in that school !

How was it possible that no Pe teachers was present to prevent them from coming in the corridor to tease at you or to make them get out quickly.

or may be the school authorities wanted to toughen you by exposing you in underwear to the view of girls or more likely they did not mind at all at your embarrassment because you were boys ! they did not care about your possible embarrassment!

I guess that the reverse was impossible: girls classmates had never to walk wearing just bras and underwear in corridors ? and certainly never had never exposed to the sight of boys classmates ?

I would have been less surprised by the entrance of a group of girls in the gym during your examination if the schedule of the PE lessons was wrong for instance. But it would have been not intentionally but accidentally!

So anyway it could have been worse if they had entered without supervision in the gym ...or if you had been wearing a jock or stark naked.

Don't complain too much but it was the famous double standard which allowed such situations.

Esaterman, from conversations I'd had later on, the girls had found out about our exams taking place because of rumours that had gone round. There were a fair amount of girls as we walked down one side of the corridor to the gym. and we were escorted there by our PE teacher who chased them away. At the end of the day it was only a short distance, 15 second walk from the exit of the changing room to the entrance to the gym and ultimately while there was a little bit of embarrasment, as I said, as a horny teenager it gave me a hard on knowing they were seeing me semi naked with only my boxers on.

And no, we never got to see the girls semi naked going for the exams - if we had it would have been for longer as their changing room was a little further away as it was on the same corridor but further away. Like you say possibly double standards, but no complaints at them seeing me that way.. other than I didn't get to see the reverse... at least not until I was a few years older. 😉

" Scootv 95" if you were supervised by your male Pe teacher for the walk semi-naked in the corridor and if he chased the girls present to see you away, it means that he did his job and did not agree with their presence but without enough authority in my opinion. The girls might not be there to look at you.

And to be really efficient in his will to protect you from their view, he might have taken their names for a punishment.

Anyway I presume that it was difficult to prevent the rumors and the girls were often very mischievous in such circumstances.

And you say that you have a very short distance to walk from your locker room to the gym, so it was not too much embarrassing.

But why do you say that it was at the end of the day, how could it be possible? the doctor needed some time to examin you, I would have believed that it was rather at the beginning of the school day in the morning ?

What happened next in the gym? were you examined as a group in line ? in different stations or only one ? with weigh-ins in public? or were you examined by a doctor behind a curtain ? was your Pe teacher present all the time?

did you were forced to wait in box-briefs that the last student had been examined to return in group in the locker room even if it meaned that you stayed rather a long time semi-naked or were you allowed to return alone to the locker room to dress again since it was at a short distance ?

Esaterman, answering some of your questions in turn:

"at the end of the day", is just an expression in English meaning something you consider important. I didn't literally mean that my exam took place at the end of the school day, they took place in the morning.

It was a station to station type setup, so when we went into the gym we stood in a line and waited for your turn to go to the first station which was putting your back against a wall while they measured your height and then stepping on a scale while you were weighed, and also getting your waist size measured. You then moved onto the next station and so on. The weigh ins were public since you could see the boys in front of you getting weighed and obviously the ones behind you in the line saw you getting weighed also.

The only part of the exam that was behind a curtain was when you had your genitals examined and you went behind a screen while you removed your boxers and the doctor examined you, everything else was done in full view of everyone else.

Once everyone was in the gym, the teacher didn't stay, everyone was left to just go round.

Once you'd had the genital exam, which was the final part, the doctor said you could go and get changed, you didn't need to wait in the gym in your boxers until everyone else had finished, you could just go.

Scotty - I've got to hand it to you, well done for getting through that as a teenager, because I could never have done it! I'd have wanted to run like hell from the nerves of something like that.

It sounds like you weren't too bothered about getting a medical like that in front of your classmates, or being in just your boxers in front of them. It wouldn't have bothered me being almost naked either, I didn't mind swimming class or getting changed with other guys, but add anything medical to it and my nerves would have destroyed me back then. Getting measured and weighed and going through ears and throat and stomach checks, that would probably have been no problem...but as soon as I got my turn at the doctor with the stethoscope, I'd have had got the kind of boner there'd have been no way of hiding...and I was already made fun of at school for a whole load of different reasons, and if people had seen that it would have been the total end of me! I would have been so anxious about my med-fetish being exposed for everyone to see, and worse, I think actually seeing another guy examined with a stethoscope would have made me hard before I even got my turn, and this was before I even considered that I might be gay, let alone accepted that I was (that didn't happen until I was in my early 20s.) I just liked steth exams that much! I remember this thing we had in class once when I was in year 5 where we were doing the human body, and one instruction on a worksheet was to listen to a friend's heartbeat, and I had to pretend I'd done it because I couldn't go near it even without a real stethoscope. That sort of fear as a teenanger?? You get the idea!

Yeah, I was a worrier, and if I'd have the same experience as you, my brain would have been all over the place. I seriously wonder what the whole experience would have done to me...perhaps it could actually have ruined my fetish forever, I don't know! Your real experience is the sort of thing I've imagined many times as a fantasy with a little teenage regression...group sports-medical exam, attractive friend in front of me who I get to watch before taking my turn, then my turn itself....and the doctor listening to my chest after running? Man, that would have been hot! And what if my friend thought my whole reaction to it was cute and gave me the eye about it? Or maybe even a friend who said 'Yeah I get that too, it's just normal for me' without any kind desire involved in it, and then I wouldn't have felt so freaked about it. But I'm SO glad I never got the same experience as you for real, because it really wouldn't have happened to me in a good way. Fantasy is where I can pretend I wouldn't have been that great big bundle of angst, and when I read your story now I'm such an odd combination of jealous and relieved all at once.

Hi RocketStripe90,

Thank you for your detailed post and for the compliment on the way I reacted to my exam. It really didn't bother me having a medical in front of my classmates as a teenager, but I suppose I'd already got used to it when I was younger. At infant school, I'd had an exam that took place while I was wearing a vest and briefs (which is what we wore for indoors pe at that age anyways) and I'd had another when I was eleven at junior school in just my boxers (which included a hernia check behind a screen) so I'd got used to it before my exams as an adolescent at senior school. Also I'd had occasional exam at the doctors in my briefs in front of my parents when I was younger.

We'd all seen each other in our boxers when getting changed for PE so it wasn't anything new seeing each other that way - albeit it was for a lot longer time in our exams!

I did get a couple of boners. Firstly, as I've already said when girls I fancied got to see me in the corridor semi naked. Again during the stething, I think at that stage I was already well one my way to having a med fetish even if I didn't quite realise it yet, and it turned me on being listened to, exercising, and then being listened to again.

You say that part of you is jealous about me having an exam like that and part of you relieved. From posts on here I realise that south of the border exams like line used to be the norm but are now no longer. I'm personally glad that we have a different education system in Scotland than further down the country that enabled me to go through this!

"scottv 95"

Thank you for your answer and sorry for my bad english which explains that I have not understood the expression" at the end of the day", I would have thought that it means something else ...

Aanyway, you have descibed your examination station by station in the gym

not so bad since you had only to remove your underwear behind a curtain in front of a doctor, being not exposed to the view of your classmates.

You said that the Pe teacher did not stay in the gym during your examination,

and you were exposed to the sight of the other boys only in underwears while weighted, heighted and so on .. It was not different in a certain way of a swimming lesson or a Pe lesson with undressing all together in a locker room. Not much embarrassing.

But if you might go from a medical station to an other one, who was in charge of your examination ? several doctors ? male doctors and women nurses ? how much for all stations ?

Easterman, don't wory about your English, it's very good and much better than my French!

You said that the Pe teacher did not stay in the gym during your examination,

and you were exposed to the sight of the other boys only in underwears while weighted, heighted and so on .. It was not different in a certain way of a swimming lesson or a Pe lesson with undressing all together in a locker room. Not much embarrassing.

It wasn't embarassing really since it was only the same level of exposure as when swimming or down the beach. We'd also already seen each other in our boxers whilst getting changed for PE, and also naked in the showers afterwards loads of times before.

But if you might go from a medical station to an other one, who was in charge of your examination ? several doctors ? male doctors and women nurses ? how much for all stations ?

The stations were in a linear set-up in the gym, and after one doctor had finished doing his or her stuff with us they would direct us where to go to the next station.

You have not answered to my question : how much doctors were present to examin you ?

you said that after one doctor had finished his examination with you, "they" would direct you where to go to the next station

who are "they"?

All of the stations were manned by doctors. The doctor who had finished examining me at each station would direct me as to which doctor to go to next.

All of the stations were manned by doctors. The doctor who had finished examining me at each station would direct me as to which doctor to go to next.

My school/sports physicals were set up in stations, too. But we were directed/managed by med students who helped out and they were the ones who got us to the next station and hung onto our paperwork. These were very big groups of us and there was a lot of long waits in between sections where we'd just go back and sit down until the med student in charge of us came to take us to another station.

"jake new york"

You have certainly already answered to that question but you mention school /sports physicals set up in stations and performed in group

When was it , at each year of high school or also in college?

where they took place? in the gym with special equipments for the examination such as a scale and so on ...

You said thay you were very big groups of students, how much ? and that you had to wait a long time between stations ( fortunately you could sit!)

And that you were directed by med students who helped out to go to the next station when you have finished one ; I presume that it was not one by one but rather group by group ? so that all members of a group watched the examination of the others before going to an other station ?

But you do not say of the med students were all male or both genders ? Were they volonteers to help out or designed by their medic school ?

How much were they ? and the doctors ?how much other persons than students were in the gym ? were all the doctors male or both genders?, no other person like Pe teachers or coaches than the medical persons?

I presume that all guys of a group were undressed in underwears ( or jocks?) immediately after their entrance of the gym and stayed undressed until they had finished all the exam?

It could last a long time?

Do you find it embarrassing or not at all because you were used to that situation and you were thinking that it was casual?

Esatermar -

This was from 5th grade all through high school. I was in wrestling and boxing. Physicals were every August and either January or February.

They spread out with stations in the gym and others in the student health office which was down the hall from the gym. That hallway and another that intersected it was blocked off on exam days. At the furthest end of the intersecting hall was the cafeteria which was sometimes used as a waiting area.

The groups were VERY large. Hundreds of boys. And we would be broken down into smaller groups of 8-10 with color and number coding to keep you together. Like, you might be in group Red-1 or Blue-4. Each of those groups usually had its own med student assistant to watch over you and take charge. he would be the one to hang onto everyone's forms. Each small group would finish a section then either move on to the next or be told to go sit and wait until a station opened up.

First, there was a fitness part of the exam. That was done at one end of the gym and in the training room. After that, you went back and sat and waited for the medical part which took the longest.

For the fitness part, we wore gym clothes, though shirts came off for part. For the medical part, clothing varied. Most years, they just made us wear a towel. A few times, we wore just underpants and a few times they had hospital type shorts for us to wear.

It lasted a long time. Hours. But largely because of all the waiting.

I guess it was embarrassing but not severely so.

I have to take off all my clothes and i feel shame

Had an annual physical exam since born with the same pediatrician for nineteen years. Last time I'd seen him was at nineteen, needing to have some current health information authorized on paperwork to begin college.

We had mandatory medical checks all the way through school — grades 1, 3, 5, 7, and a couple of times during high school. My mom generally took me to the pediatrician for those exams, but I seem to recall getting a physical at school during grade three.

A number of the students in my class, both boys and girls, were brought to the nurse’s office and made to undress down to just underwear. The doctor was behind a curtain, which is where the exam itself took place, but we were all undressed in the same area while we waited our turn.

Back in the day at age 15 we were told to go to the medical room in groups of three. One of the teachers was in and out of the room organising each group and we were told to take all of our clothes off apart from our underpants and wait to be called by the doctor. The doctor, looking rather stern in her white coat, was behind one of those movable curtain type screens, and to a 15 year old boy she looked quite old but was probably only in her 40s. When my turn came I stood in front of her and was given a routine examination, and then told to lower my pants to below my knees. Her hand came across and cupped my testicles and I was told to put my hand over my mouth and cough a couple of times. She then had little feel around but I wouldn't call it a full testicle examination, but for a 15 year old boy quite an interesting experience as you can imagine. The girls had similar medicals but I didn't get to learn the details, more's the shame!

Further down the line over the years I had several employment medicals that were part of the induction process. You were given the job subject to a medical, although in most cases it was just a formality and for insurances purposes I guess. The medicals tended to be a little more detailed than the school one, but varied a little depending on the establishment.

We had to do also.

In low school, we had a medical exam every year, in high school it was every 2 years.

We were only between boys in a dedicated flow, though we heard sometimes there were girls in another wing of the building.

The sequence was of the same:

* undressing in group of 6-8

* being taken in charge by the nurses for a few questions, eye tests, weighting, blood pressure, temperature

* then 1 by 1 with the doctor, for a very quick examination

I attended Drama classes in a one-year course at a Folkhögskola (a very special Swedish form of education, a sort of Popular Accademy, dating back to late 1800’s, where you prepare yourself for further studies, mostly for ages 18-25).

This was in the late 70’s and we were only four young men at this course. The other twelve were girls. About two weeks in to the semester us boys were summoned for a medical. It was a Friday afternoon and I skipped, as I was bound for a flight to my hometown.

On Monday I had a phone call from the school nurse. She was kind of upset that I hadn’t shown up and more or less ordered me to arrive at the doctor’s office the very next morning. I argued that it was up to me being examined or not, I was not a child anymore. She said it would be consequenses if I didn’t submit, that these examinations were bound by law. I didn’t believe her, telling her that it was a volountary education and I couldn’t be told to do anything.

Anyway, I turned up the next morning. It was a rather quick routine affair, but both nurse and doc were unfriendly and I thought sort of giving me a lesson. They had me standing completly nude in front of them both for about one minute. Something I learned my male class mates didn’t experience.

I always doubted the legal aspects of this health care, until I recently came across the Law regarding Folkhögskola from the 1970’s. It stated: ”Pupils for whom health care is arranged must be examined at the beginning of the course and then every two years. It is incumbent on the student to submit to such medical examination.”

The welfare state Sweden was really obsessed with the health of its citizens.

At the start of 7th grade my entire grade had mandatory check-ups performed at school. The boys went the first week of school and I heard from my brothers friends that the nurse had each boy pull down his underwear at the end of the exam so their penis' and development could be checked. This freaked some of us girls out a bit but we came to the conclusion that that was probably only for the boys. The next week all of us girls had our check-ups. Each girl had to disrobe to bra and panties before entering the nurses exam room. The nurse checked the basics like HEENT and heartbeat, then had me do some some basic stretches and asked me to bend down so she could check my spine. To my surprise she asked me to remove my bra and had me stand directly in front of her. She took a look at my nipples but didn't touch anything. A brief genital exam, similar to what the boys went through, was also performed on all the girls at the very end. The nurse asked me to take my panties down and told me to stand with my legs in a wide stance. She clicked on a penlight and gently felt through my pubic hair, then moved the light directly below my crotch to illuminate my labia. She used one hand to part the hair and spread the vagina folds to to a brief look and said “everything looks perfectly normal down here. All done. You can put your clothes back on.”

@jennerhet45 Looks like Tanner stage development. This is not so bad; for boys, more embarrassing exams can be conducted, such as checking if the foreskin retracts freely, or if both testicles are descended.

My wife was in university when I met her.

I remember asking her to describe her medical visits. In France, it's pretty standard. She stays dressed but she just takes off her top. Checking height, weight. Then auscultation with stethoscope of the heart and lungs in sitting position, then auscultation of the heart and lungs in lying position. Auscultation with the stethoscope of the whole abdomen, then palpation/percussion of the 4 quadrants. Verification of sight and hearing.

only happiness :-)

We had small “check ups” at my public schools each year, through 12th grade. Just height, weight, blood pressure, eyesight, hearing, and scoliosis. I never played sports so I didn’t need those physicals.

In Italy we don t have type of physical exam for school etc. just vaccinations…

Not as I recall. I went to a community college after high school and then transferred to a 4 year University out of state. I do not remember any entrance requiring a physical.

I just had a general health questionnaire that I filled out each year, but no physical.

In the Netherlands we were seen regularly as babies and toddlers by a pediatrician at an institution called the consultation bureau. During school time I was seen by a schooldoctor at the age of 10 and 14. After that age no further examinations were done.

During my teens there were regular thorough school doctor exams from about the age of 12 till 16/17. I attended all of them although they were not mandatory.

I never had a medical examination for university (there was no such thing as far as I know).

The only exam I had in school was with an ophthalmologist who checked our eyesight.

I have had at elementary school here in Italy. I think this kind of exam was the starting point of my medical fetish.

Now I'm in love with mandatory school examination, and I like to act as a young high school student during a play exam.