# STCW medical **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [May 7, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077 "2023-05-07T19:31:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Dano](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Dano)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/1 "2023-05-07T19:31:16Z")
Need to renew my STCW medical certificate, and I have just received a check-up compliant with Norwegian Maritime Authority. Long question short, do I need to have a CG-719K completed by the doctor, or will a corresponding physical exam form on different stationery work? ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Seadog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/67e7ee/32.png) [@Chief\_Seadog](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Chief_Seadog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/2 "2023-05-07T19:41:10Z")
For one issued by the USCG you will need to fill out the CG-719K. It’s just the way it is. Should have brought the 719K form with you when you did the one compliant with the Norwegian Maritime Authority. ---
**Author:** ![jdcavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jdcavo/32/108_2.png) [@jdcavo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jdcavo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/3 "2023-05-07T20:58:05Z")
For the US, it needs to be on the 719-K form and completed by a medical doctor, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner licensed in the US. > [@Chief\_Seadog](#): > > Should have brought the 719K form with you when you did the one compliant with the Norwegian Maritime Authority. wouldn’t have mattered unless the doctor is licensed in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Dano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Dano](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Dano)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/4 "2023-05-07T21:19:22Z")
F\*ck. I definitely should’ve brought a 719K. He was licensed in the US. Too late now? Email him and plead for him to fill it out accordingly? ---
**Author:** ![LI\_Domer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/li_domer/32/768_2.png) [@LI\_Domer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/LI_Domer)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/5 "2023-05-07T21:20:36Z")
Yea just email or call his office, they might fill it out and send it back over to you. ---
**Author:** ![Dano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Dano](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Dano)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/6 "2023-05-07T21:25:22Z")
Many thanks. Love the brain trust on here. Much faster than reading through the NMC website, or, God forbid, the CFRs. ---
**Author:** ![Dano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Dano](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Dano)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/7 "2023-05-07T21:26:11Z")
Though, do CFRs matter vis-a-vis STCW? Probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Dano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Dano](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Dano)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/8 "2023-05-07T21:30:42Z")
Self-study update: yes, CFRs compliant with STCW. Jolly good. ---
**Author:** ![jdcavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jdcavo/32/108_2.png) [@jdcavo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jdcavo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/9 "2023-05-07T21:47:04Z")
> [@Dano](#): > > Though, do CFRs matter vis-a-vis STCW? Probably not. They definitely do The US implements STCW via the CFR. STCW does not replace theCFR, e.g. having a foreign medical certificate doesn’t replace the requirement to have a U.S. issued certificate for your US MMC. ---
**Author:** ![tugsailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@tugsailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/tugsailor)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/10 "2023-05-08T21:41:28Z")
The NMA (isn’t it actually NMD) is a more thorough physical that usually costs 5 times as much as the standard USCG physical. I have found that most doctors want to get paid twice or three times for doing the same damn thing. Just go to a doc-in-a-box walk-in clinic and get a USCG physical. Take the USCG form with you. It’s easier to go to a clinic that routinely does USCG physicals and that maritime employers use and trust, like Concentra. Many smaller employers will accept a Concentra physical done within the last 6 months with no new company physical. ---
**Author:** ![Dano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Dano](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Dano)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/11 "2023-05-10T01:54:31Z")
If you want to get pedantic, it’s not the NMA _or_ the NMD, but the SFD, or _Sjøfartsdirektoratet._ In other happy news, the Norwegian word for “speed bumps” is _fartshumpers_. I’ll probably have to pay a clinic like Concentra for doing the same darn thing again. The life of a mariner, bled dry whenever he’s ashore. ---
**Author:** ![tugsailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@tugsailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/tugsailor)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/stcw-medical/66077/12 "2023-05-10T10:40:49Z")
My USCG physicals usually cost in the range of $100 to $150, plus gas or Ubers, parking, and my time. I often get my DOT truck driver physical (a bit less intensive than the USCG physical) at the same time and the money grubbing doctors always charge me another $100 or so for that.