University of Melbourne
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate and the Health Professional Report UniMelb asks for, completed.
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A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my UniMelb consultUniMelb accepts telehealth certificates. A certificate is judged on what it states and who issued it.
Applications go through my.unimelb special consideration application.
Within four business days of the assessment due date. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
The Health Professional Report states that consultations must be in person or via telehealth, so a telehealth consultation is on the same footing as an in-person one. The report still has to be completed by the practitioner who assessed you, in an uneditable format.
The severity of impact in each domain, administrative, academic and attendance, rated moderate or severe. The dates of consultation and the period of impact, which must be six weeks or less.
UniMelb does not want a diagnosis. The report asks for the effect on your study, not the name of your condition, so a practitioner who writes a diagnosis is adding something the University did not ask for. The Health Professional Report covers impacts of up to six weeks. Longer or ongoing circumstances are handled through ongoing support registration instead.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at UniMelb, from its published policy.
Start my UniMelb consultThe Health Professional Report states that consultations must be in person or via telehealth, so a telehealth consultation is accepted. The practitioner who assessed you completes the report, and it must arrive in an uneditable format.
It is UniMelb's practitioner form for special consideration. The practitioner rates the severity of impact on administrative tasks, academic work and attendance, records the consultation dates and period of impact, and signs with their registration body and number. It replaces a plain medical certificate.
Four business days from the assessment due date. Supporting documents are uploaded within four business days of the application, so you can lodge first and add the report once your practitioner returns it.
No. UniMelb does not want the condition named. The form asks for the effect on your capacity to study and attend, not the underlying diagnosis, which keeps the clinical detail with your practitioner.
Up to six weeks. If your circumstances affect your study for longer than that, UniMelb asks you to register for ongoing support instead of lodging repeated special consideration applications.
UniMelb'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 four business days of the assessment due date.
Health Professional Report completed by the doctor, plus the medical certificate.
UniMelb 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 severity of impact in each domain, administrative, academic and attendance, rated moderate or severe. The dates of consultation and the period of impact, which must be six weeks or less. Whether the condition is ongoing. The practitioner's registration body and number, AHPRA, AASW, PACFA or ACA, with their signature and practice details.
UniMelb does not want a diagnosis. The report asks for the effect on your study, not the name of your condition, so a practitioner who writes a diagnosis is adding something the University did not ask for. The Health Professional Report covers impacts of up to six weeks. Longer or ongoing circumstances are handled through ongoing support registration instead. The report must be supplied in an uneditable format. A scanned or exported PDF is fine, an editable document is not. Supporting documents are uploaded within four business days of the application, so lodge the application first if the report is still with your practitioner.
Four outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
This is the main application when illness affects an assessment, an exam or your attendance. You lodge it through my.unimelb within four business days of the due date and attach the Health Professional Report.
An extension is a short move of a submission date and is one of the outcomes a special consideration application can produce. It suits a brief illness that delayed a piece of work rather than one that affected your performance in it.
Where you could not sit an exam or timed assessment, the outcome can be an alternative or rescheduled sitting. The Health Professional Report needs to show the impact fell on the assessment date, with the attendance domain rated.
If the circumstances will affect your study for longer than six weeks, the Health Professional Report is the wrong instrument. UniMelb directs you to register for ongoing support, which sets up adjustments across the semester instead of one assessment at a time.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate and the Health Professional Report UniMelb asks for.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
