Medical Examination At The Beijing Language and Culture University

In this post I thought we could take a look at the medical examination you will probably have to do once you arrive at the Beijing Language and Culture University. It is a basic health check that every student is required to undergo, unless you have the results of a health check from your own country of origin that the Chinese government recognises.

An American friend of mine at BLCU had the tests done in the US before coming to Beijing so that he wouldn't have to do them there, but BLCU didn't recognise the certificates and he was required to retake the tests anyway. So keep this in mind if you are thinking along the same lines. Your health check certificates from home may not be accepted in China.

The medical for BLCU cost 600 RMB and was organised within the first week of term starting. Coaches would take a different group of students to a hospital about half an hour away each day at 14:00. You would be assigned which day you were going during the registration period.

Once at the hospital, the queues were quite long and when you eventually did get to to the front you were registered and told to get some paperwork signed at 6 different rooms. Each room performed different tests including blood tests, scans and so on. Waiting to be seen didn't take too long as normally there were only a few students ahead of you at each area.

When all your tests were done you could head back to the coach and wait for everyone else to finish. All in all it didn't take more than an hour or two and you were back at BLCU before long. I can't remember if you were issued your results straight away or whether the university got them a few days later. Either way, I still have my certificates bearing the all important official seal of approval from the Chinese government.

If it emerges that you have any serious illnesses, I believe it is grounds to refuse you entry to the course at BLCU and deport you back home. So it's something to be taken seriously.

Now let's take a quick look at the 3 test papers I received after completing the medical examination.

As you can see, this is some sort of scan, but I'm not sure what is shows. Is it a heart scan or something? Perhaps someone reading this who is studying medicine or works in the healthcare sector might be able to tell just by looking at it. Either way, I don't know, but it's one of two pieces of paper I got back from my tests.

The title of this page is "Physical Examination Record For Foreigner And The Personnel From Hong Kong Macao And Taiwan".

I have deliberately cut off the top section of this page as it shows personal information including full name, gender, date of birth, nationality, passport or ID no., and the school you are applying to (which in my case was BLCU). These details are all given in both English and Chinese.

As the image quality is not great, I will briefly run through what the various boxes show. In order, under the section titled "Medicine & Surgery", we have: height, weight, blood pressure, development, nutritional level, pulse rate, skin, lymph nodes, thyroid, head and neck, spine, extremities, heart, lungs, cardiovascular system, chest, abdomen, nervous system, and other. All my results show "no abnormal findings". I wonder why they didn't pick up on my asthma in the "lungs" section?

Under the section at the bottom titled "E.N.T" we have: uncorrected vision, corrected vision, hearing, colour sense, eyes, ears, nose, throat, tonsils, and other. Again, all the tests here show "no abnormal findings" except that they have picked up on my short-sightedness in uncorrected vision.

This is the back of the page we have just looked at above. We can see sections for chest x-ray, ECG, b-ultrasonic, laboratory test, and suggestions at the very bottom. You can also make out the official stamp of approval at the bottom right of the page, the doctor's name and date (March 10, 2010).

So this has been the little insight I've offered to readers of my blog regarding the medical examination done at BLCU when you first arrive. I hope you've found it useful or at least you now know what to expect. If you have any comments or further questions, please leave them in the comments section below.

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