New Employee Health Evaluations

The Occupational Health Program conducts health evaluations for all new employees at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as for trainees who continue at Baylor as staff or faculty. The evaluation can vary from individual to individual but typically includes an assessment of your work activities, review of health status, review of vaccinations, and TB testing.

All persons are required to have recent tuberculosis testing prior to starting at Baylor. A TB test is the injection of a small amount of solution under the skin; it tests whether a person has been exposed and infected with TB. A TB skin test must be read between 48-72 hours after it’s placement. A TB blood test may also be performed. Learn more about TB.

If you have had a positive TB test in the past and can provide documentation of the test result, then you do not need to be tested again. Likewise, if you provide documentation of treatment for active or latent TB then you do not need to be tested.

Please note that BCG vaccination is not a contraindication to TB testing. We regularly test people who have had BCG in the past.