Manual of the Medical Department (NAVMED P-117): Chapter 15: Medical Examinations: Medical Examinations

15-23 Naval Academy Midshipmen, NROTC Applicants, and Students

Department of the Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

(1) A periodic and precommissioning medical examination of Naval Academy midshipmen must be conducted following the regulations governing the Naval Academy and as determined by the superintendent.

(2) Applicants for the NROTC program and other outservice scholarship commissioning programs, i.e., Enlisted Commission Program and NAFHPSP, etc., must meet the physical standards of NAVMEDCOMINST 6120.2 series.

(3) An annual medical examination is not required for students enrolled in NROTC, NAFHPSP, and other outservice scholarship programs leading to commission. However, commanding officers and officers with administrative authority over these students are responsible for ensuring that each student completes an Annual Certificate of Physical Condition (NAVMED 6120t3) form annually during the tall term, i.e., semester, quarter, trimester, and again during the term of graduation.

(4) In the event a student identifies a medical problem on the NAVMED 6120/3, the member's commanding officer or administrative officer must send copies of abstracts of treatment, narrative summaries, or other available health records pertaining to the injury, illness, or disease resulting in hospitalization or absence from school, to BUMED (MED-25) for review.

(5) Students identifying medical problems may be referred to the nearest military, medical facility for evaluation of the alleged defect. Send a copy of the evaluation report to BUMED (MED-25) for review. Evaluation reports from civilian consultants are acceptable it a military medical facility is not available.

(6) The commanding officers of ROTC units and outservice commissioning scholarship program administrative officers are responsible for sending a report to BUMED (MED-25: an any student who, at any time, becomes disabled for a significant period of time or contracts a disease or injury that may render the student NPQ for commissioning. The competed NAVMED 6120t3 is to be filed in the student's Health Record.

(7) Scholarship students must receive a complete medical examination within 24 months of the anticipated date of commissioning. The completed SF 88 and SF-93 are to be sent to BUMED (MED-25) not later than 1 October of the year before the anticipated date of graduation. NROTC students must arrange for precommissioning medical examinations to be conducted locally, provided time and facilities permit. Units located in close proximity to military medical facilities should use those facilities to the maximum extent possible. If the medical examination is not completed before the first class cruise, orders must be endorsed by the unit commanding or administrative officer to provide an intermediate assignment to a naval medical facility for the purpose of a precommissioning medical examination, if required.