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Reserve Defence Forces Recruitment 2015 **Update!**
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@EGOSHEA
How did you find the medical overall?
Was it extremely thorough?
My main concern I think would be the hearing test and also haven't had bloods done in years so God knows what sort of tropical diseases I've caught!! That and the incomprehensible fear of needles!!
The medical was pretty thorough. If it's okay to describe here (mods edit if required), it included:
Filling out a number of forms concerning past/present medical conditions.
Providing a urine sample.
ECG (an electrocardiograph; 12 little electrodes attached to your chest in different places in order to assess your heartbeat over a short period of time, about 30 seconds).
Hearing test (headphones in a booth, pressing a button any time you heard tones of various pitch; about 5 minutes long).
A vision test (reading lines of letters; gauging depth; assessing 'straightness'/integration of both eyes; colour-blindness test).
Blood pressure.
Blood test (one injection but a number of little viles of blood collected).
An actual meeting with a doctor (strip off, walk back and forth across the floor - presumably to observe basic gait and absence of fallen arches, more questions which you already answered on the earlier forms, drop the jocks and cough - ahem!, and then asking about smoking, current rates of exercise, etc).
Strangest question here was probably: "Do you know you'll have to be fit doing this? You'll have to go off up into the mountains for a week at a time?" (I'm reasonably fit, look reasonably fit, and have a BMI of about 22 but I guess they have to 'warn' you about the demands and such - fair enough).
Re: hearing test - don't go to pubs, nightclubs, etc, for a few days before the medical. iPods too. If you have a tendency to a fair bit of wax in your easr, think about getting them syringed beforehand.
Bloods: Don't worry about it. You're very unlikely to have tropical diseases (!) and sure if you did, this is a free way to find out.
Fear of needles: They'll have you lying down for this anyway, but if you've a history of/concern about feeling faint or passing out, tense your leg and arm muscles before and during the blood being taken - it's a technique which keeps your blood flowing and pressure high enough not to pass out - same principle as jet fighter pilots who do the same in flight to avoid losing consciousness. In any event, it really doesn't hurt at all - tiny little pinch is all.0 -
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Wow cheers that was quite a comprehensive answer!!
Better bring an extra pair of socks for the walk About in the undies!! :P
They'll have to strap me down for the bloods, as I'm quite likely to run away like a little girl!!
Fingers crossed the rest will be ok, but I've a bit of a wait for the test now!!
'Strap you down for the bloods'?! Jaysus...you better never get shot (though in the Reserve, that's fairly unlikely).
You'll be grand, buddy. The nurses are sound - less pain that getting a pinch.0 -
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