Griffith's evidence, from a doctor who actually assesses you.
Griffith requires a medical certificate obtained during a medical consultation, such as after speaking directly with a doctor, and it maintains a list of online doctor services it accepts when the certificate follows a telehealth or video consultation. A certificate produced without a consultation does not meet the requirement.
Start a Griffith consult opens on 19 September. We are finishing the doctor-completed forms for every university. Bookmark this page and come back then.
From 12.90 AUD, one-off. Issued on the day you are seen. Certificates carry a verification code.
Griffith at a glance
Every certificate links to a verification page showing the consultation record.
What Griffith asks for
Griffith has no practitioner section. The certificate carries the doctor's opinion, so what it states is what decides the outcome.
What the same evidence is for
Students search for these by name. Griffith treats them as one process with different outcomes.
An extension moves the due date of an assessment item. Requests of up to three calendar days on most individual items go through without documentation. Anything longer needs a certificate, and the Course Convenor reviews the full period requested.
A deferred assessment lets you sit an exam or complete a timed assessment at a later date because illness stopped you doing it when scheduled. Apply through myGriffith no later than three working days after the assessment was scheduled, and attach evidence covering that date.
Special consideration applies when you attempted the assessment but illness or another circumstance outside your control affected your performance. The certificate needs to show the impact on the day you sat, so see a doctor as close to the assessment as you can.
Read the source
The pages students land on when they search this topic, as Griffith publishes them. Read these before you apply: they are the rules your evidence is judged against.
Griffith assessment application pageHow to apply at Griffith
Book a consultation where you speak directly with a doctor. Griffith's requirement is about the consultation, not just the certificate.
Check Griffith's list of accepted online doctor services first if you are using telehealth, because a provider outside that list can be rejected before anyone reads the certificate.
Tell the doctor which assessment is affected and the dates, so the certificate covers the exam day or the due date.
Open the Assessment Application page in myGriffith and choose an extension, a deferred assessment or special consideration.
Attach the certificate and lodge the application: before the due date for an extension, or within three working days of a scheduled assessment for a deferral.
What your certificate carries
Every Doccy certificate links to a verification page. This is what Griffith will see when it follows the QR code.
Consultation record
Multi-step telehealth process with voice pre-screening, doctor review, and ongoing patient communication.
The doctor reviews your details and the pre-screening notes, writes the impact statement in their own words, and can message you with questions before issuing.
Griffith questions
Answers reflect Griffith's published policy on 16 Sept 2026. Griffith decides what it accepts.
Only in specific conditions. Griffith requires a certificate obtained during a medical consultation in which you spoke directly with a doctor, and it keeps a list of online doctor services it accepts for telehealth or video consultations. Check that list before booking, because a certificate from an unlisted service can be refused.
Use the Assessment Application page in myGriffith and lodge the deferred assessment request no later than three working days after the assessment was scheduled. Attach evidence that covers the scheduled date.
Not for a short one. Extensions of up to and including three calendar days on most individual assessment items do not require documentation. For a longer extension, attach a certificate and expect the Course Convenor to review the full period.
Three working days after the assessment was scheduled to take place. Some Griffith pages describe the window in calendar days, so treat the earliest reading as your deadline and lodge as soon as you can.
No. Griffith states that providing a certificate does not mean the request is automatically approved, and decisions take account of all the evidence about your circumstances. A certificate that names the dates and the impact gives the assessor what they need to decide.
Other Queensland universities
All universitiesVoice pre-screening, AHPRA-registered doctor review, and a certificate that states the dates and impact Griffith asks for.
Start a Griffith consult opens on 19 September. We are finishing the doctor-completed forms for every university. Bookmark this page and come back then.
Doccy is a telehealth service. Universities decide what evidence they accept. We issue what the doctor's assessment supports.
