Swinburne's evidence, from a doctor who actually assesses you.
Swinburne's special consideration page does not address consultation modality. It asks for a medical impact statement completed by your professional practitioner and says nothing about telehealth or online certificates either way.
Start a Swinburne 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. The form is completed only where the doctor's assessment supports it.
Swinburne at a glance
Every certificate links to a verification page showing the consultation record.
What Swinburne asks for
Swinburne's practitioner form is specific. These are the items the doctor completes after assessing you.
What the same evidence is for
Students search for these by name. Swinburne treats them as one process with different outcomes.
This is the application when illness affected an assessment you sat, missed or submitted late. You lodge it online with the Medical Impact Statement attached by 5pm on the third working day after the due date. The incapacitation rating your practitioner records is what Swinburne weighs.
Where the problem is time rather than performance, an extension moves the submission date. A dated statement covering the due date supports the request. Longer or repeated delays are handled through the full special consideration application instead.
Illness that stopped you sitting an exam, or that clearly affected your performance in one, can lead to a deferred or supplementary sitting. The Medical Impact Statement must show the impact fell on the exam date itself.
Read the source
The pages students land on when they search this topic, as Swinburne publishes them. Read these before you apply: they are the rules your evidence is judged against.
Swinburne special consideration pageHow to apply at Swinburne
See a registered practitioner while you are unwell, and tell them which assessment or exam was affected and on what date.
Download the Medical Impact Statement and ask the practitioner to complete their section, including the incapacitation rating.
Check the statement carries the consultation date, the period of impact, the practitioner's registration number and their stamp or practice details.
Open the Swinburne online special consideration form for your enrolment type. Swinburne Online students apply through the Student Hub and vocational education students email their application.
Lodge it with the statement attached by 5pm on the third working day after the originally scheduled due date or exam date.
What your certificate carries
Every Doccy certificate links to a verification page. This is what Swinburne 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.
Swinburne questions
Answers reflect Swinburne's published policy on 16 Sept 2026. Swinburne decides what it accepts.
Swinburne's published policy does not address modality. It asks for a medical impact statement completed by your professional practitioner and neither permits nor excludes telehealth. Absence of a rule is not acceptance, so a certificate backed by a real consultation is the safer choice.
5pm on the third working day after the originally scheduled due date or exam date. ELICOS students have until 5pm on the second working day. The cut-off is a time of day, not just a date, so do not leave the lodgement to the evening.
Most students lodge an online application form and attach a Medical Impact Statement for medical grounds. Swinburne Online students apply through the Student Hub, and vocational education students email a downloadable form to the progressions team.
It is the document your practitioner completes for a medical special consideration claim. It records the degree of incapacitation as minor, moderate, severe or total, the period affected, and the practitioner's registration details. It accompanies the application form.
For medical grounds, no. Swinburne states that all medical claims must include a medical impact statement completed by your practitioner. Non-medical grounds are supported by other documentary evidence, such as a statutory declaration.
Other Victoria universities
All universitiesVoice pre-screening, AHPRA-registered doctor review, certificate and Swinburne's form where the assessment supports it.
Start a Swinburne 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.
