Australian Catholic University
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate and the Application for Special Consideration with Professional Authority Certificate (Section D) ACU asks for, completed.
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A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my ACU consultACU's rules don't mention telehealth. A certificate is judged on what it states and who issued it.
Applications go through ACU Student Portal.
Prior to, or up to five working days after, the relevant due date. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
ACU's Special Consideration Procedure does not address consultation modality. Its requirements are about who completes the Professional Authority Section, a registered professional who is not related to you, and that they specify how the condition affected your ability to undertake the assessment.
The degree of impact: totally unable, very severely, moderately or slightly affected, or unable to assess. How the condition affected your ability to attend or undertake the assessment task.
The person completing the Professional Authority Section must not be related to you. That declaration is pre-printed on the form and the signature covers it. ACU accepts a wider set of professionals than a GP alone: medical practitioners, psychologists, dentists, physiotherapists and counsellors can complete Section D.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at ACU, from its published policy.
Start my ACU consultACU's Special Consideration Procedure does not address consultation modality. It requires the Professional Authority Section to be completed by a registered professional who is not related to you, and for them to specify the impact on your assessment. Silence is not acceptance, so a certificate backed by a real consultation is the safer choice.
Prior to, or up to five working days after, the relevant due date. ACU advises students of the outcome within ten working days of the date the form was submitted, so apply early if the result affects a later assessment.
It is a combined form. You complete Sections A to C describing your circumstances and the affected assessment, and your registered professional completes Section D, the Professional Authority Certificate, which carries the impact rating and their registration details.
It is Section D of the special consideration form. The professional rates your capacity as totally unable, very severely, moderately or slightly affected, or unable to assess, records two consultation dates, marks whether the condition is confidential, and signs.
A registered professional including a medical practitioner, psychologist, dentist, physiotherapist or counsellor. The procedure adds that the person who completes the section, or who verifies supporting documentation, must not be related to you.
ACU's process, in the order it happens.
A real-time special consideration consult. Tell the doctor the exam or due date; the certificate covers those dates.
Prior to, or up to five working days after, the relevant due date.
Application for Special Consideration with Professional Authority Certificate (Section D) completed by the doctor, plus the medical certificate.
ACU may contact the practice to confirm the consultation. The link on each document answers that.
What the certificate must state, and what gets it refused.
The degree of impact: totally unable, very severely, moderately or slightly affected, or unable to assess. How the condition affected your ability to attend or undertake the assessment task. The two consultation dates the form asks for, and the period affected. Whether the nature of the condition is confidential. The professional's name, registration number, practice details and signature.
The person completing the Professional Authority Section must not be related to you. That declaration is pre-printed on the form and the signature covers it. ACU accepts a wider set of professionals than a GP alone: medical practitioners, psychologists, dentists, physiotherapists and counsellors can complete Section D. The professional has to specify the impact on your ability to attend or undertake the assessment. Confirming a consultation happened is not enough on its own. The certificate can mark the nature of the condition confidential, so the impact statement can stand without naming the diagnosis.
Three outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
This is the application when illness or circumstances affected an assessment task. You complete Sections A to C and your professional completes Section D.
Where the issue is time rather than performance, an extension moves the submission date. A dated Professional Authority Certificate covering the due date supports it, and is the same document the full application uses.
If illness kept you from an exam, special consideration can produce a deferred or rescheduled sitting. Section D needs to show the impact fell on the exam date, with the degree of impact rated rather than described loosely.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate and the Application for Special Consideration with Professional Authority Certificate (Section D) ACU asks for.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
