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Medical visits

From 1 Jan. 2025

The schedule of mandatory medical examinations for children is evolving as of January 2025

Publié le 22 novembre 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

From birth until age 16, a child must undergo 20 compulsory medical examinations. These allow for a follow-up of his health until his adolescence. As of 1^er january 2025, one of the 14 exams scheduled for the first 3 years of children is removed and one is added between their 7^e and their 16th^e year.

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The 20 mandatory medical examinations a child must undergo from birth to age 16 allow for:

ensure good health;
refer family members to additional care if needed.

Currently, during the first 3 years of life a child must take 14 of these preventive examinations; starting on 1^er january 2025, he'll have to go 13. The examination to be carried out between 3^e week and end of 1^er month will be deleted. From 1^er in january 2025, the first mandatory examinations of children will be conducted as follows:

within 8 days of birth;
during their 2^e week;
during their 2^e months;
during their 3^e months;
during their 4^e month.

At the same time, a mandatory examination to be carried out during the 7^e year of the child will be added. As of 1^er january 2025, a child will have 4 medical examinations between 7 and 16 years of age, compared to the current 3. These medical examinations should take place:

during its 7^e year;
between 8 and 9 years;
between the ages of 11 and 13;
between the ages of 15 and 16.

FYI

As the caregiver of a child, you are required to present the child at these mandatory medical examinations.

What is the content of the compulsory medical examinations of children?

In the mandatory medical examinations that children must undergo, doctors analyze in particular:

their growth curve;
psychomotor skills (evaluation of the ability to do certain gestures, such as walking or catching)
their psychoemotional development;
their vaccinations.

From 1^er in january 2025, during these medical visits, healthcare professionals will also need to:

identify any mental disorders (including anxiety and depression) that may be present in the children they are examining;
administer preventive treatments for certain childhood diseases, when necessary.

Reminder

Tests are done:

either by the child's attending physician ;
or by a doctor you have chosen as the child's parent or guardian.

Consultations for these examinations are reimbursed 100% regardless of the professional who carries them out, without an advance payment, except in the event of an overpayment (more than the fee set by the Health Insurance for a consultation).