All 41 Australian universities
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate and your university's special consideration form, completed.
If the doctor signs off, issued the day you're seen
$65.00AUD / consultation
For an exam deferral, exam exemption or assignment extension. One real-time consult, two documents.
Issued only if the doctor finds it clinically appropriate.
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University policies checked 23 October 2026
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You'll need your phone and the assessment dates, and you must be in Australia.
Pick your university and the assessment, share your symptoms. About two minutes, any time of day.
A short call for your symptoms and dates so the doctor is prepared. Then you join the queue; keep your phone nearby.
An AHPRA-registered doctor calls and assesses you in real time. If they sign off, your certificate and your university's form arrive by email, each with a verification link. The fee is for the consultation; we refund it only when we cannot deliver one.
Same evidence, same support, different outcome.
Extra days on an assignment or take-home task, for the dates the doctor confirms.
Sit the paper in the deferred exam period. The certificate must cover the exam date.
A further assessment after results, when illness affected the original one.
Universities don't exempt you from an exam; the same evidence gets you a deferred sitting.
Pick your university for its form, its deadline and what the Doccy doctor completes on the call.
Why students choose Doccy for special consideration.
Every document is signed by a doctor on the public register.
A doctor speaks with you before anything is issued.
Each document carries a code your university can check.
The doctor records the dates and impact it asks for.
Four things every university's policy agrees on, whatever it calls the process.
A deferred exam, an extension or a replacement task. No university raises a mark on work already submitted.
The same application covers an exam you could not sit and an assignment you could not finish. Missed classes need only a certificate.
A doctor who saw you, dated the day, stating the dates affected and the degree of impact. Backdated issue dates are refused.
Academic consideration at Wollongong, adverse circumstances at Newcastle, academic concession at QUT. Same evidence, same consult.
Five grounds every university accepts, when they were outside your control and affected the assessment.
Not a heavy workload, a misread timetable, holidays you booked, or a minor ailment you could study through.
Seen by a doctor on the day, with the dates and the degree of impact recorded.
Acute anxiety counts. Melbourne, UWA and QUT ask for the impact, not a diagnosis.
A death, or a dependant's sudden illness. Non-medical grounds take a declaration.
A crash, a flood, a break-in, a technical failure mid-exam. Report it at the time.
Covered as a one-off; the condition itself belongs with your access or disability plan.
Five names for the doctor's evidence. Whichever yours is, the Doccy doctor completes it on the call.
UNSW, UTS, Macquarie and ACU. The doctor records the dates, the diagnosis if you allow it, and a severity rating for each assessment.
RMIT. Completed by the treating practitioner, stating the type and level of impact; a certificate alone may be considered if it states dates and severity.
Sydney. A certificate is accepted only if it covers the same ground, including the degree of impact on your studies.
Melbourne. No diagnosis wanted; the report rates how the condition affected each assessment.
UQ and Griffith take the medical certificate on its own, uploaded to the portal with your application. Monash attaches it to your own application form.
Your next step, and the evidence your university may ask for.
See a doctor before it starts and tell them the exam date.
Tell your university now, then see a doctor today.
Tell the invigilator at the time, then see a doctor.
Tell the doctor the due date and when you fell ill.
The doctor completes it. Have your assessment details ready.
Your university may call it special consideration or a deferred exam.
Online certificates, university forms, costs and deadlines.
An online medical certificate may support special consideration if it meets your university's evidence rules. UNSW requires a real-time phone or video consultation; a questionnaire-only certificate is not accepted. For in-class tests, Monash accepts a video or phone consultation only when attending in person was impractical, and Sydney no longer accepts online certificates without a face-to-face consultation and an existing doctor-patient relationship. Doccy's special consideration service includes a real-time doctor consultation. Your university decides whether the evidence and application meet its requirements.
It depends on the university. Most take a medical certificate, uploaded to a portal or attached to a student application. About half, including UNSW, UTS, Macquarie, Melbourne, RMIT, Deakin, La Trobe and QUT, publish a practitioner form with a section the doctor completes. Doccy issues the certificate every time and completes the form where your university publishes one. Your university's page on this site says which it asks for.
One flat fee, shown on this page and before you pay, the same at every university and for every outcome. It covers the online form, the preconsult call, the real-time consultation with an AHPRA-registered doctor, the medical certificate, the completed university form where one exists, and the online verification link. No Medicare card is needed. The fee is for the consultation, not a guaranteed outcome: the doctor issues special consideration evidence only when the assessment supports it.
Usually, yes. Consults run 24/7 with no appointment to book. After the form and the preconsult call you join the doctor queue, and a doctor calls when available; waiting times vary with demand. The certificate is dated the day you are seen and emailed the moment the doctor approves it, so it fits inside every university's application window, which runs from 24 hours to five working days after the assessment.
The dates you were seen and the period you were affected, the doctor's opinion of how severely the illness affected you, and the practitioner's name, AHPRA registration, practice details and signature, dated on the day of the consultation. Universities refuse certificates with handwritten changes. Where the university publishes a practitioner form, it also asks for impact ratings, often separately for take-home and in-class assessment. Every Doccy certificate carries a verification code the university can check.
No. A certificate is dated on the day of the consultation. If your illness started earlier, the doctor can record that period after assessing you, but the issue date does not change, and UNSW and Bond both say backdated documents may be refused. See a doctor on the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
Tell your university before the exam starts if you can, and see a doctor the same day so the certificate covers the exam date. Do not attempt the exam while unwell: at most universities sitting it counts as a decision to be assessed, and a later application is harder. Then apply for a deferred exam through your university's process within its window, with the certificate attached.
Yes, at every university on this site. Most want the request lodged on or before the due date, with the certificate covering the dates you were affected; UQ counts a request as on time within 24 hours of the due date and time. Some universities grant a short extension of one to three days without evidence, but a dated certificate makes the request straightforward and covers you if the illness runs longer.
Yes. Special consideration covers illness that affected an assessment, and that includes acute anxiety and other mental health conditions. The doctor assesses you, records the dates and the impact, and can mark the condition confidential where the university's form allows it; Melbourne, UWA and QUT say they do not want a diagnosis at all. An ongoing condition belongs with your GP and your university's access or disability plan rather than a one-off application.
Lodge the application inside the window even if the evidence is still coming: most universities let you attach documents within a few days of applying. Windows are short, from 24 hours at UQ and 11.55pm on the due day at Monash to three working days at UNSW and five after your last exam at UNE. A late application needs an explanation of why you could not apply in time, and each university decides whether to accept it.
Yes. No Medicare card is required and the fee is the same. You need to be in Australia for the consultation. The certificate comes from an AHPRA-registered Australian doctor, which matters because universities such as UQ require onshore students to use an Australian practitioner.
Ask what is missing. Every Doccy certificate and form carries a verification link, and the university may contact the practice to confirm the consultation. If it wants its own practitioner form or specific impact ratings, the doctor can complete them where the assessment supports it. Universities decide what they accept; Doccy issues what the doctor's assessment supports and cannot guarantee an outcome.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate and form your university asks for.
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