Edith Cowan University
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate and the Medical / Health Professional Assessment Form ECU asks for, completed.
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A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my ECU consultECU's published policy does not accept telehealth certificates. Read its rules before you book; a Doccy consult may not meet them.
Applications go through ECU Student Intranet.
Within 7 calendar days of the assessment due date or final examination. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
ECU's published guidance asks for an in-person consultation and does not accept a certificate issued from an online questionnaire. Check with ECU before you rely on any telehealth certificate for an ECU application, because a certificate from a remote consultation may be refused.
Whether the circumstances support full, partial or no withdrawal from the units. The date the practitioner began treating you for the condition.
ECU's form is completed by the practitioner, not by you. Give it to the doctor before the consultation so the withdrawal and census questions can be answered. The census date questions are the heart of the form. A certificate that only covers the day you were unwell will not answer whether the condition pre-dated census or worsened afterwards.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at ECU, from its published policy.
Start my ECU consultECU's published guidance asks for an in-person consultation, and it does not accept a certificate issued from an online questionnaire. Contact ECU directly before you rely on a telehealth certificate for an ECU application.
Lodge the application through the ECU student intranet within 7 calendar days of the assessment due date or final exam, with the Medical or Health Professional Assessment Form attached. The form is completed by your practitioner, not by you.
It removes units from your record without the academic or financial penalty when circumstances beyond your control stop you completing them. ECU's practitioner form asks specifically whether the condition was ongoing before the census date and whether full, partial or no withdrawal is supported.
Seven calendar days from the assessment due date or the final examination. Applications outside that window need an explanation, so start the process while you are still unwell rather than after you recover.
The date they began treating you, whether the condition was ongoing before census, whether it worsened, the date you are fit to resume study, whether full, partial or no withdrawal is supported, and the basis of their assessment.
ECU'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.
Within 7 calendar days of the assessment due date or final examination.
Medical / Health Professional Assessment Form completed by the doctor, plus the medical certificate.
ECU 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.
Whether the circumstances support full, partial or no withdrawal from the units. The date the practitioner began treating you for the condition. Whether the condition was ongoing before the census date, and whether it worsened after it. The date you are considered fit to resume study. The basis of the assessment: patient history alone, supporting evidence, or an ongoing treating relationship.
ECU's form is completed by the practitioner, not by you. Give it to the doctor before the consultation so the withdrawal and census questions can be answered. The census date questions are the heart of the form. A certificate that only covers the day you were unwell will not answer whether the condition pre-dated census or worsened afterwards. ECU's guidance asks for an in-person consultation. If you cannot attend in person, contact ECU first rather than assuming a telehealth certificate will be accepted.
Two outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
Special consideration covers an assessment task or exam affected by unexpected illness or circumstances outside your control. ECU asks for verifiable evidence of a substantially detrimental effect on your ability to study for or sit the task.
If illness stops you sitting a final exam, ECU can consider a deferred sit. The evidence needs to cover the exam date itself and state when you are fit to resume study, so the exam can be rescheduled sensibly.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate and the Medical / Health Professional Assessment Form ECU asks for.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
