Medical Tests Details
You’ll undergo the following tests as part of your medicals.
- Full body checkup (a lot of people have asked what “full body check up” includes - so I’ll elaborate). It includes:
- Height and weight
- Blood pressure
- Checking ears using an otoscope
- Tapping a tiny hammer on your joints to check your response to pain/stimuli
- Checking the strength in your limbs. Doctor will ask you to push against a plank using your hands and your legs (this wont require much strength. It’s just a gentle push you have to give)
- Listening to your breathing using a stethoscope
- Examination of stomach (you’ll be asked to lie on your back and the doctor will just press the abdomen area in 2–3 places to check if they find tenderness or anything abnormal)
2. Vision test: If you wear glasses/contacts, please go to the test wearing your glasses or contacts. You will be asked to read off a board (the one you see at your optician’s office). You are allowed to keep your glasses/contacts on. You will not be asked to do any reading without your glasses/contacts.
3. Blood test: They’ll take a blood sample. They check for HIV and a few other STDs using this.
4. Urine test: You need to provide a urine sample (mid-stream). They’ll do a urinalysis.
5. Chest X day: For tuberculosis or any other cardiac anomaly that the x-ray can detect.
The results are directly sent to the IRCC. The results may or may not be shared with you. Some doctors do share the reports with you. Some don’t. It depends entirely on the physician.
For women: If you have your period and are unable to provide a urine sample that is clear of blood, many physicians will ask you to come back after a few days and will allow you to take the test again before transmitting it to the IRCC. However, some physicians will not wait and will send the results to the IRCC. You would then receive a request directly from IRCC to provide another clean urine sample. This is not a cause for worry and won’t cause a rejection (if the blood was only due to your period).