Purpose

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Marine Medical Exams are conducted to assess a mariners fitness for their role, and capacity to participate in emergency drills, evacuations and responses 

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Booking your Marine Medical

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• NEW AS OF APRIL 2025: You will be required to complete this question sheet and send it back to our office before an appointment can be scheduled for you; the sooner you can complete and email / mail / drop it off to us, the sooner we can schedule your appointment for you
   

  • Please send all valid medical information with your questionnaire prior your appointment, including any additional forms​ the questionnaire may ask you to fill out
     

• Your CDN is required at the time of booking your appointment

 

• Please notify our staff if you are booking a Coast Guard Medical as these have a different set of forms which you must provide to our office
   

• Please notify our staff if you are requesting a re-certification after a medical leave of absence 
   

• No shows:  Should you need to, please cancel at least 24 hours prior to your appointment. No shows will not be rebooked 
   

• Audiogram:  Should you require an audiogram please notify our office at booking - this will incur an additional cost

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At your Marine Medical Exam

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• Please bring all corrective eye wear should you use them 
   

• Please arrive a few minutes before your appointment as the doctor runs strictly on time. The appointment will take approximately 1 hour, 30 minutes of which are needed for biometric measurements, vision, colour vision and urine testing 
   

• Urine testing is done to detect microscopic blood and glucose
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  • Menstruation affects the urine results and may require follow up testing; if you know you will be menstruating on the date of your appointment, it would be best to reschedule for when your cycle has ended

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Important

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• Cannabis:  The regular use of cannabis has impacts on medical fitness. Please read  Legalisation of cannabis in Canada and vessel operation PRIOR to booking your medical
   

• Processing times:  The role of our office is to gather medical information and make an initial assessment of fitness - we do not have any information on Transport Canada processing times - please direct all enquiries to that office directly 
   

• Voyage types (for reference)
   

• Responsibility for information access:  Should more information be needed to complete your MOT medical our office will make two attempts to access this information. Should this fail, then the MOT medical will be submitted with the information available. It is the applicants responsibility to ensure that the information needed to complete the medical be provided

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Cost

 

The cost of occupational medicals is set by the BC Section of Family Medicine - this fee is payable regardless of your assessment of fitness 

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Face Masks

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As of March 28, 2025 masks are no longer mandated inside medical facilities, but are our office still requires the use of masks if you are having cold or flu symptoms.