Getting medical exam results in Moscow

[azzz 19]

9 hours ago, Yulia17 said:

Thank you so much for the answer! We just got our interview date for December and my mom scheduled medical in Moscow for November. We will have to see if it might just be easier to do it in Almaty at this point. Do you mind me asking how long ago your medical exam/interview was? 

I will have my medical in Moscow on Nov 10 and interview in Almaty on Nov 21.

[BenNomad 79]

My wife did the medical exam in Moscow yesterday at the MOM/IOM clinic (close to the Moscow Zoo).  I don't know if it's necessary to go into much detail here, but they did confirm that they will send the results electronically to Warsaw. They didn't need the embassy interview letter or DS-260 confirmation page. Didn't need to bring any passport photos; they did the photos there. She did have to get some vaccinations, and they don't offer vaccinations at the MOM clinic. But there's another clinic a short walk away called Medsi (Медси) which required her to to have an appointment with their own doctor before they would give her shots. Overall it took around 3-4 hours because of having to do those shots. She had to get a flu shot and a tetanus booster, but no COVID shot required of course. I recommend getting all your shots done in advance and if you don't have records, then get antibody tests done in advance too. My wife had a rubella shot years ago but doesn't have a record of it. Yesterday they told her to get that shot but that all the required shots couldn't be done at the same time, and that she would have to wait a month (!) between shots. But she did an antibody test for rubella and the results came back ok (thanks to the lab people who work on weekends!) So, all is good but I got a little nervous thinking the interview might be in jeopardy because of one vaccine.

[barbieland 8]

2 hours ago, BenNomad said:

My wife did the medical exam in Moscow yesterday at the MOM/IOM clinic (close to the Moscow Zoo).  I don't know if it's necessary to go into much detail here, but they did confirm that they will send the results electronically to Warsaw. They didn't need the embassy interview letter or DS-260 confirmation page. Didn't need to bring any passport photos; they did the photos there. She did have to get some vaccinations, and they don't offer vaccinations at the MOM clinic. But there's another clinic a short walk away called Medsi (Медси) which required her to to have an appointment with their own doctor before they would give her shots. Overall it took around 3-4 hours because of having to do those shots. She had to get a flu shot and a tetanus booster, but no COVID shot required of course. I recommend getting all your shots done in advance and if you don't have records, then get antibody tests done in advance too. My wife had a rubella shot years ago but doesn't have a record of it. Yesterday they told her to get that shot but that all the required shots couldn't be done at the same time, and that she would have to wait a month (!) between shots. But she did an antibody test for rubella and the results came back ok (thanks to the lab people who work on weekends!) So, all is good but I got a little nervous thinking the interview might be in jeopardy because of one vaccine.

I though all missing vaccines had to be given by the panel physician?  That's what it says on the CDC website with instructions for panel physicians. It doesn't seem right to have to go to another clinic.