CVS Health
Advance Practice Provider NP/PA
$66.50-77.50per hour
On-site, TexasPart-timeDOT medical examiner
DOT Medical Examiner Jobs
The federal National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners lists the clinicians allowed to sign a commercial driver's physical. That exam is the work, and it's done in occupational health clinics, urgent care and chiropractic offices.
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Your questions about DOT medical examiner jobs, answered
- Who is eligible to become a DOT medical examiner?
Any clinician whose state license already covers physical examinations is eligible. The federal rule names advanced practice nurses, doctors of chiropractic, doctors of medicine, doctors of osteopathy and physician assistants, and leaves room for other medical professionals a state authorizes to perform physicals (49 CFR 390.103). A sequencing trap sits in the same rule: you register with the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners and get your number before the training.
- Is it a clinical qualification?
It sits on top of one. The listing says the federal government accepts your examinations of commercial drivers, and it rides on the clinical license underneath, since keeping that license in good standing is a condition of staying on the registry (49 CFR 390.111).
- What kind of employer wants it?
The ones who see commercial drivers as a stream of patients. A DOT physical stands on its own, separate from whatever treatment the driver is or isn't having, and it decides whether that driver keeps driving. Employers who sell that exam as a line of business are the ones who need somebody on staff who can sign it.