RMIT University
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate and the Impact Assessment Statement RMIT asks for, completed.
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A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my RMIT consultRMIT's rules don't mention telehealth. A certificate is judged on what it states and who issued it.
Applications go through RMIT special consideration system (specon.rmit.edu.au).
Within five working days after the assessment date or due date. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
RMIT's special consideration page does not address consultation modality. It requires the supporting document to be completed by the registered medical or health practitioner who treated you, and points to the AHPRA register, but it neither permits nor rules out a telehealth consultation.
Your ability to travel, sustain reading, and concentrate for one to two hours, each rated as usual or less than usual. Whether the condition is determined by the practitioner or reported by the student.
The Impact Assessment Statement must be completed by the registered medical or health practitioner who treated you, not by a practitioner who has only read a summary. The statement covers difficult personal circumstances as well as medical ones, so a counsellor or other registered health practitioner can complete it where that fits your situation.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at RMIT, from its published policy.
Start my RMIT consultRMIT's published policy does not address consultation modality either way. It requires the Impact Assessment Statement to be completed by the registered practitioner who treated you and refers to the AHPRA register. Absence of a restriction is not the same as acceptance, so the safer path is a certificate backed by a real consultation.
Five working days after the assessment date or due date. Supporting documents can follow shortly after the application, but the application itself must be lodged in that window. Late applications need an explanation.
It is RMIT's practitioner form. The practitioner rates your ability to travel, sustain reading and concentrate for one to two hours against what is usual for you, records whether the condition was determined or reported, and describes its course. It is recommended for health-related applications.
Most students apply online at specon.rmit.edu.au. HDR candidates and some pathway students apply by contacting the special consideration team instead. You attach the Impact Assessment Statement to the online application.
Yes. RMIT runs extensions of time separately from special consideration, and an extension is the right route when you simply need more time to submit. Special consideration is for assessments already sat, missed, or affected beyond what an extension fixes.
RMIT'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 five working days after the assessment date or due date.
Impact Assessment Statement completed by the doctor, plus the medical certificate.
RMIT 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.
Your ability to travel, sustain reading, and concentrate for one to two hours, each rated as usual or less than usual. Whether the condition is determined by the practitioner or reported by the student. The course of the condition: permanent, infectious, episodic, deteriorating or improving. The dates of the consultation and the period the impact covers. The practitioner's name, AHPRA registration number, practice details and signature.
The Impact Assessment Statement must be completed by the registered medical or health practitioner who treated you, not by a practitioner who has only read a summary. The statement covers difficult personal circumstances as well as medical ones, so a counsellor or other registered health practitioner can complete it where that fits your situation. RMIT asks for the practitioner's opinion on function, not a diagnosis. The form allows the practitioner to record that you reported a condition rather than that they determined it. You can lodge the application first and add supporting documents shortly after, but the application itself still has to be in within five working days.
Three outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
An extension moves an assignment due date without changing how the work is marked. RMIT handles short extensions separately from full special consideration.
This is the full application for when illness or difficult personal circumstances affected an assessment you sat, missed or submitted late. It is lodged online at specon.rmit.edu.au within five working days of the assessment date.
Where a condition is ongoing rather than a one-off episode, RMIT uses equitable assessment arrangements instead of repeated special consideration applications. The Impact Assessment Statement asks the practitioner whether the condition is permanent, episodic, deteriorating or improving, which is what routes you here.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate and the Impact Assessment Statement RMIT asks for.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
