University of the Sunshine Coast
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate and the Medical Certificate UniSC asks for, completed.
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$52.00AUD / consultation
A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my UniSC consultUniSC's rules don't mention telehealth. A certificate is judged on what it states and who issued it.
UniSC publishes how to apply on its own page, linked below.
Certificate dated before or on the exam day; the application lodged before the examination or within three working days after it. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
UniSC's deferred examination procedures do not address telehealth or online certificates. What they do rule on is the content and timing of the document: it must be UniSC's own medical certificate, dated before or on the exam day, and non-specific statements such as the patient was experiencing a medical condition are not accepted.
A tick that you were medically unfit, rather than a non-specific statement that you had a medical condition. The duration of the illness and, separately, the duration you were prevented from sitting the examination.
A certificate that only reports your own account of being unwell is not accepted. The practitioner must give their own assessment. Wording along the lines of unfit for work is refused. The certificate must speak to your fitness to sit the examination.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at UniSC, from its published policy.
Start my UniSC consultUniSC's published procedures do not address telehealth or online certificates. They rule on the document instead: it must be UniSC's own certificate, carry the practitioner's own assessment rather than your account, and be dated before or on the exam day.
The application can be lodged before the examination or within three working days after it. The certificate itself must be dated before or on the exam day, so the doctor's appointment has the earlier deadline.
The three common reasons are a certificate dated after the exam, a non-specific statement that you had a medical condition without the practitioner assessing you as medically unfit, and wording that says unfit for work rather than unfit to sit the examination.
Only with your consent. The certificate can name the condition where you have agreed to it, or state that it cannot be revealed. What it cannot do is leave out the practitioner's assessment of your fitness and the period involved.
If you sat the examination but your performance was affected by short term illness or exceptional circumstances outside your control, apply for a review of your final grade on special consideration grounds after the grade is released. If illness stopped you sitting at all, apply for a deferred examination instead.
UniSC'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.
Certificate dated before or on the exam day; the application lodged before the examination or within three working days after it.
Medical Certificate completed by the doctor, plus the medical certificate.
UniSC 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.
A tick that you were medically unfit, rather than a non-specific statement that you had a medical condition. The duration of the illness and, separately, the duration you were prevented from sitting the examination. Which of the six purposes on the form the certificate is being issued for. Whether the practitioner is your regular practitioner, and the date they saw you, before or on the exam day. The condition, where you have consented to it being named, or a statement that it cannot be revealed.
A certificate that only reports your own account of being unwell is not accepted. The practitioner must give their own assessment. Wording along the lines of unfit for work is refused. The certificate must speak to your fitness to sit the examination. The certificate must be dated before or on the exam day, so see a doctor before the exam rather than after it. The application itself can be lodged before the examination or within three working days after it, but the certificate date cannot move.
Three outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
A deferred examination lets you sit the paper at a later date when illness stopped you sitting it as scheduled. Submit the Application for Deferred Examination with UniSC's medical certificate attached.
Special consideration applies when you sat the examination but short term illness or exceptional circumstances outside your control affected your performance. You apply for a review of your final grade on this basis once the grade is released, rather than before the exam.
An extension moves the due date of an assessment item you can still complete. The same evidence rules apply: the practitioner's own assessment, the period you were unfit, and a statement about your capacity to study rather than to work.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate and the Medical Certificate UniSC asks for.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
