DOT Exam
What is required for licensure?
The 2014 Federal Guidelines require you to provide more detailed information about your health conditions, as well as more oversight by doctors who specialize in treating those conditions.
Print out this DOT Medical Examination Report and fill out the first page before your appointment.
Reviewing it will help you understand the health conditions considered significant to commercial driving.
Please arrive 30 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time to ensure that all required documentation is completed.
Below are further suggestions to help you prepare or determine if you are qualified for the exam.
- Eyeglasses, Contact lenses, Hearing aid (20/40 vision is required to pass)
- Bring a list of your current medications as well as the name and contact number of the doctor who prescribed them.
- If you take medications for pain, psychiatric conditions, or attention deficit disorder, you must bring a letter from your treating doctor clearing you for commercial driving.
- Supply your provider with medical records for conditions such as diabetes, cardiac disease, sleep disorders, neurological conditions, etc.
- Diabetic Drivers cannot be on needle-injected insulin
- Diabetes controlled through a diet or oral medication is permitted
- A driver’s blood pressure must be under 140/90, otherwise a temporary license or no license will be issued, depending on the blood pressure values at the exam.
- Use of Controlled substance prescriptions may even with this letter prevent you from obtaining a license though, since examiners are instructed to fail anyone whose medical care interferes with safe driving. If you take any controlled substance prescription, you may want to check with your prescribing physician about safer alternatives before your exam.
- If you see any health care provider routinely for this condition, you will need a letter of clearance for commercial driving from that Provider in order to be considered for licensure.
- Prescription medication to control blood pressure is permitted. If you have high blood pressure, see your treating doctor before the exam to ensure it is well controlled.
- If a driver has any history of a heart problem, including coronary artery disease, valve disease, congestive heart failure, arrhythmia, congenital heart defect, or any past heart surgery or procedure, you will be required to provide the Medical Examiner with records that may include stress test (performed within the last 12 months) Echocardiograms, Holter Monitoring, vascular studies, or other pertinent tests, along with a release from the driver’s cardiologist stating that he/she is “cleared to drive a commercial motor vehicle without restrictions”. See you cardiologist before the exam to obtain these.
- The Department of Transportation also requires clearance from treating physicians for drivers that have been diagnosed with the following conditions: sleep apnea, recent back injury, recent major surgery, a current hernia, or have had recent workers’ compensation claims. For self-pay sleep studies contact our Sleep Center for more information. (410) 414-6185
FAA Physicals
What is required prior to an FAA Physical?
Dr. Charles Judge is a Senior Aviation Medical examiner, and can issue Class 1, 2, and 3 medical certificates. Follow the link below to the FAA website, there you can register for a medxpress account and enter your data prior to the office visit for your FAA Physical. This is required for all airmen.
MedXPress Account Registration
Below are further suggestions to help you prepare or determine if you are qualified for the exam
- All airmen who use glasses or contacts or both should bring them to the exam
- If you have any significant medical problems, please bring in any documentation available at the time of the exam if you are not a patient of the Calvert Internal Medicine Group.
- Any airman with a special issuance from the FAA should bring in the FAA special issuance letter and any required documentation to the visit.
- FAA certificate exams are not billable to your insurance.