University of Newcastle
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate to attach to your Newcastle application.
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$52.00AUD / consultation
A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my Newcastle consultNewcastle's rules don't mention telehealth. A certificate is judged on what it states and who issued it.
Applications go through Adverse Circumstances tile in the myUni portal.
No later than 11pm on the due date of the assessment item, with supporting documents uploaded within three calendar days of the online application. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
Newcastle's adverse circumstances pages do not address telehealth or the modality of the consultation. For medical grounds they ask for a letter or medical certificate from an accepted health professional that includes the dates health grounds have impacted your studies.
The dates that health grounds have impacted on your studies. That it comes from an accepted health professional, named and signed.
You can lodge the online application first and upload the documents within three calendar days. Email your Course Coordinator to say why the documents are not attached yet. Since 7 March 2025 a short-term extension of three calendar days or less on an assignment, quiz or in-class test may not need supporting documentation at all.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at Newcastle, from its published policy.
Start my Newcastle consultNewcastle's adverse circumstances material does not address telehealth or the modality of the consultation. It asks for a letter or medical certificate from an accepted health professional that includes the dates health grounds have impacted your studies. Silence on modality is not the same as acceptance, so the dates and the impact need to be explicit.
No later than 11pm on the due date of the assessment item. Newcastle also asks you to tell the University at the earliest possible time, in advance of the assessment and before an exam. Late applications must explain why the deadline could not be met.
It is Newcastle's name for the process other universities call special consideration. It covers illness and other events beyond your control that affect an assessment item. Applications are lodged through the Adverse Circumstances tile in the myUni portal and are usually processed within three university working days.
Not always. Since 7 March 2025 Newcastle has said you may not need supporting documentation for a short-term extension of three calendar days or less on an assignment, quiz or in-class test. Anything longer, and any exam, still needs evidence.
Yes. Lodge the online application, email your Course Coordinator to say you have lodged without documentation and why, then upload the documents through the Adverse Circumstances portal as soon as you have them. Newcastle expects the actual supporting documents within three calendar days of the online application.
Newcastle'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.
No later than 11pm on the due date of the assessment item, with supporting documents uploaded within three calendar days of the online application.
The medical certificate after a real-time doctor call.
Newcastle 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 dates that health grounds have impacted on your studies. That it comes from an accepted health professional, named and signed. The date the certificate was issued. Enough detail to connect the impact to the assessment item you are applying about.
You can lodge the online application first and upload the documents within three calendar days. Email your Course Coordinator to say why the documents are not attached yet. Since 7 March 2025 a short-term extension of three calendar days or less on an assignment, quiz or in-class test may not need supporting documentation at all. Keep the original document for six months after the end of the term. Newcastle can ask for it. Tell the University at the earliest possible time, in advance of the assessment being due and before an exam. A late application needs an explanation of why the deadline could not be met.
Three outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
Adverse circumstances is Newcastle's process for illness or other events outside your control that affect an assessment item. You lodge it through the Adverse Circumstances tile in the myUni portal.
Form A covers an extension of time on an assessment item. Apply no later than 11pm on the due date.
Where illness stopped you sitting an exam, apply under adverse circumstances before the exam wherever possible. The certificate needs to name the dates your studies were affected so they cover the exam date.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate Newcastle asks you to attach.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
