Swinburne University of Technology
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate and the Medical Impact Statement Swinburne asks for, completed.
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A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my Swinburne consultSwinburne's rules don't mention telehealth. A certificate is judged on what it states and who issued it.
Applications go through Swinburne online special consideration form.
No later than 5pm on the third working day after the originally scheduled due date or exam date. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
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.
The degree of incapacitation: minor, moderate, severe or total. The period the impact covers, including the assessment or exam date.
The statement must be completed by a registered medical or health practitioner who is treating you, and it is submitted with the application rather than in place of it. Swinburne allows the practitioner to record that you stated a condition they could not independently assess, so a practitioner does not have to claim more certainty than they have.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at Swinburne, from its published policy.
Start my Swinburne consultSwinburne'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.
Swinburne'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 5pm on the third working day after the originally scheduled due date or exam date.
Medical Impact Statement completed by the doctor, plus the medical certificate.
Swinburne 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 degree of incapacitation: minor, moderate, severe or total. The period the impact covers, including the assessment or exam date. The condition, either as diagnosed, as stated by you where the practitioner cannot assess it, or marked confidential. The practitioner's name, registration number, practice details, stamp and signature.
The statement must be completed by a registered medical or health practitioner who is treating you, and it is submitted with the application rather than in place of it. Swinburne allows the practitioner to record that you stated a condition they could not independently assess, so a practitioner does not have to claim more certainty than they have. The third working day cut-off is 5pm, not midnight. ELICOS students have until 5pm on the second working day. Non-medical grounds need their own documentary evidence, such as a statutory declaration or a death certificate, rather than a medical impact statement.
Three outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
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.
Where the problem is time rather than performance, an extension moves the submission date. A dated statement covering the due date supports the request.
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.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate and the Medical Impact Statement Swinburne asks for.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
