Rectal or genital done first?

My doctor always examines my genitals first and then bends me over the table for the rectal exam.

The female doctor put on gloves and asked me to lower my underpants as I lay on my back on the examination table. She then did the genital examination and then asked me to lie on my side for the rectal.

Genitals first, usually standing in front of the doctor, who would be sitting on a short stool so my penis and scrotum were at about his eye level, and within easy reach. Then I'd be told to turn around and assume whatever position he wanted me in for the rectal part.

I've only had one rectal exam so far and it was done immediately after my hernia exam. After examining my genitals and checking me for a hernia, my doctor stood up and walked over to the side of the table and told me he was going to examine my prostate next.

For all of my physical exams, with every different doctor that I have experienced, they have all more or less followed the same sequence of body parts examined (if they did examine that body part). The more embarrassing/ intimate the body part, the later it comes in the exam. For me personally, that would mean all exams need to end with genital/ hernia, then rectal.

For all of my physical exams, the more embarrassing/ intimate the body part, the later it comes in the exam. For me personally, that would mean all exams need to end with genital/ hernia, then rectal.

I agree that the more memorable an exam experience is, the most embarrassing body parts should be examined later during the process. While both are embarrassing, I find the genital exam to be more embarrassing than the rectal. I posted earlier in this thread about the one exam I had during which the rectal preceded the genital and hernia exams. In addition to the more embarrassing part for me being saved until last, the awkwardness created by having the doctor progress from rectal to genital made the exam really memorable.

At all my exams I had the genital exam first, than followd by the rectal exam for inspection of anus and prostate. This is independend from position I have during exam, whether standing or laying on the examination table.

My experience has been exactly the same as Dlog's, with one exception. I was scheduled for a physical with my regular female doctor a few years ago, but for some reason she was absent that morning and another woman physician (who happened to be Indian) stood in for her. She actually did the rectal first, saying before she did so that "she did this a bit differently" (though she did not say why.) I was not actually undressed for the exam but she had me pull down my pants and underpants, and bend over the exam table. After doing the rectal exam, she had me turn back around and did a quick genital exam before letting me pull my pants up. Very unusual...

Same as Dixon

The doctor would check and spread my vagina and then have me either bend over or lay on my stomach to have a look/feel of my anus.

My rectal is always done last