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A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate ANU asks you to upload.

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If the doctor signs off, issued the day you're seen

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Real-time call. As ANU expects. Verified online.
  • Real-time doctor consultation
  • AHPRA-registered doctors
  • Certificate in the format ANU requires
  • Verification link
  • Issued the day you're seen
  • All Australian institutions

One flat fee at ANU.

ANU special consideration

$65.00AUD / consultation

The evidence ANU asks a doctor for, from one real-time call. For an exam, an assignment or an extension.

  • The medical statement ANU asks you to upload, dated, signed and verifiable
  • A medical support letter
  • A real-time call with an AHPRA-registered doctor, as ANU expects
  • A two-minute form and a preconsult call, so the doctor's call is short
  • Issued the day you're seen, if the doctor signs off

Issued only if the doctor finds it clinically appropriate. If the doctor completes your consult and decides a certificate isn't appropriate, the fee still applies. We refund it only when we can't deliver the consultation.

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Five things ANU checks. One call covers them.

What ANU looks for in your evidence, and how the consult answers it.

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Video or phone. AHPRA signed. Same-day consult.
  1. 01

    A video or phone consult

    Every Doccy consult is a real-time call with an AHPRA-registered doctor.

  2. 02

    That you couldn't sit or finish it

    The doctor records the assessment and the date it falls on.

  3. 03

    When you were seen, and for how long

    Dated the day of your call, covering the days the doctor confirms.

  4. 04

    Who signed it

    Registration and practice details printed, with a link ANU can verify.

  5. 05

    Lodged on time

    Within five working days of the assessment due date or the scheduled date of examination, or of the revised due date if an extension was already granted. If the doctor signs off, the certificate is issued the day you're seen.

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Why ANU students choose Doccy for special consideration.

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From bed, today. AHPRA signed. 24/7 access.
  1. 01

    Seen from bed, the same day

    No waiting room. A doctor calls you, and if they sign off, the certificate is issued the day you're seen.

  2. 02

    The history is taken before the doctor calls

    A two-minute form and a preconsult call collect your dates and symptoms, so the doctor's call is short.

  3. 03

    Evidence ANU can check

    Signed by an AHPRA-registered doctor, with a verification link on every certificate.

  4. 04

    One price, shown before you start

    One flat fee for the consult and everything it issues. Nothing added at checkout.

Too unwell for an exam or assignment at ANU? Start here.

Your next step at ANU, and what to tell the doctor.

  1. 01

    My exam is today or tomorrow

    See a doctor before it starts and tell them the exam date.

  2. 02

    I've already missed my exam

    Tell ANU now, then see a doctor today.

  3. 03

    I'm too unwell to finish an assignment

    Tell the doctor the due date and when you fell ill.

  4. 04

    I became unwell during the exam

    Tell the invigilator at the time, then see a doctor the same day.

  5. 05

    I apply through a portal

    Upload the certificate through Request for Assessment Adjustment page in ANUHub.

  6. 06

    I'm looking for an exam exemption

    ANU handles it through extenuating circumstances application.

From unwell to lodged at ANU

ANU's process, in the order it happens.

  1. 01

    See a doctor while unwell

    A real-time special consideration consult. Tell the doctor the exam or due date; the certificate covers those dates.

  2. 02

    Apply through Request for Assessment Adjustment page in ANUHub

    Within five working days of the assessment due date or the scheduled date of examination, or of the revised due date if an extension was already granted.

  3. 03

    Attach your evidence

    The certificate after a real-time doctor call.

  4. 04

    Keep the verification link

    ANU may contact the practice to confirm the consultation. The link on each document answers that.

ANU special consideration: what to upload and the deadline

ANU takes the medical certificate on its own, uploaded with your application.

ANU policies checked 23 October 2026

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Portal upload. Real-time consult. Verified online.
  1. 01

    Apply through

    Applications go through Request for Assessment Adjustment page in ANUHub.

  2. 02

    The deadline

    Within five working days of the assessment due date or the scheduled date of examination, or of the revised due date if an extension was already granted. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.

  3. 03

    Telehealth

    ANU does not rule telehealth out and lists an online consultation service among the medical options it points students to. What it requires is the medical professional's opinion on how the condition affected your ability to complete the course requirements, which a questionnaire cannot supply.

  4. 04

    What the certificate must state

    The date your medical condition began, or unexpectedly worsened. The dates of the impact of the medical condition.

  5. 05

    Rules that catch students out

    The opinion on impact is the part ANU asks for by name. A certificate that reports only what you told the doctor does not give the assessor a clinical opinion to weigh. ANU publishes a Health Assessment Form for an in-person appointment. After a telehealth consultation the practitioner writes a certificate or letter on official letterhead instead, signed, with their registration number and the expected duration of the impact.

One consultation, three ANU outcomes

Three outcomes, one application, the same evidence.

Extenuating Circumstances Application

An Extenuating Circumstances Application, or ECA, is ANU's process for circumstances beyond your control that affected an assessment. You apply within five working days of the due date or the scheduled exam through the Request for Assessment Adjustment page in ANUHub.

Deferred examination

Where illness stopped you sitting an exam, the ECA is the route to a deferred sitting. The dates of impact on the medical documentation need to cover the scheduled examination date.

Extension on an assessment

Where the affected task is not an exam, the same application supports more time. ANU asks for the date the condition began or unexpectedly worsened as well as the impact dates, so an extension can be matched to the period you were affected.

After you lodge at ANU

When the decision arrives, and what a no means.

How long ANU takes

ANU's page gives no decision time. The outcome arrives by email from ECA Notifications, with your ECA request ID.

Outcomes include an alternative due date, a deferred exam, an alternative assessment or modified weighting.

If ANU says no

An application can come back Not Approved. You can request a review of the decision.

Appeals must be lodged within ten working days of receiving the outcome, by email, with a separate address for deferred examination appeals. Explain why the decision was inconsistent with the Student Assessment (Coursework) Policy or Procedure, and add any new independent supporting documents.

ANU special consideration FAQs

Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at ANU, from its published policy. How special consideration works at every university

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Does ANU accept online medical certificates?

ANU does not rule telehealth out, and it points students to services that include online consultations with Australian-registered practitioners. What its documentation requirements ask for is the medical professional's opinion on how your condition affected your ability to complete the course requirements, so a certificate without a clinical opinion will not carry the application.

What is an ANU Extenuating Circumstances Application?

It is what ANU now calls the process for asking for consideration when circumstances beyond your control affect an assessment. It is often shortened to ECA. Applications go through the Request for Assessment Adjustment page in ANUHub.

What is the ANU special consideration deadline?

Within five working days of the assessment due date or the scheduled date of the examination. If you already have an extension, the five days run from the revised due date. A later application needs evidence that serious illness, incapacity or misadventure prevented you lodging sooner.

What is the ANU Health Assessment Form?

It is the form ANU publishes for a medical professional to complete at an in-person appointment. After a telehealth consultation ANU asks the practitioner for a certificate or letter on official letterhead instead, covering the onset date, the impact dates, their opinion on the impact and its expected duration.

What does my medical documentation need to say for ANU?

The date your condition began or unexpectedly worsened, the dates of the impact, and the medical professional's opinion on how the condition affected your ability to successfully complete the course requirements. The opinion is the part ANU names explicitly.

Unwell before an ANU assessment?

Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate ANU asks you to upload.

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