Hello.

Has anyone completed a Universal Child Health Record when applying to a school in New Jersey? Can it be completed by a UK Doctor?

Many Thanks

You’d need to ask the school. Ours wouldn’t accept anything other than a specific school medical (has to be done every year and also required additional vaccinations) but we’re in MA.

We didn’t have a PCP (still haven’t managed to get one nearly 2 years later!) but we found an urgent care centre that would do it.

I think it will vary from state-to-state but when we moved we had our doctor in Hong Kong fill out our first vaccination record (using the state form from our school). It wasn't a problem.

Later our primary care physician in the USA took the HK doctor's work and put it in their system and they filled it out going forward.

Interestingly, there was a typo in one of the staggered vaccinations (1-3-6 months apart) and it got caught by the government's public health department. They called us and said we hadn't had the 3rd shot properly spaced and it wasn't valid, but I was able to fix the date with the help of some old medical records. So basically--they did check the details pretty thoroughly.