University of Technology Sydney
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate and the Professional Authority Form UTS asks for, completed.
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A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my UTS consultUTS accepts telehealth certificates only from a real-time consultation. Every special consideration consult is one.
Applications go through My Student Portal.
Within 48 hours after a centrally conducted exam you attended, within two working days after a faculty exam or quiz, at least ten working days before an exam you cannot attend, and before the due date for an assessment extension. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
UTS states that it currently accepts medical certificates issued by a registered health practitioner after a face-to-face, video conferencing, or telephone consultation. The modality list is the condition: the certificate has to follow a consultation with the practitioner.
The severity and impact on your ability to complete the assessment or exam, from totally unable through very severely, severely, moderately and slightly, or unable to assess. The duration of the impact, with a start date and an end date.
UTS is one of the few universities that asks for the Medicare provider number as well as the AHPRA registration number. A certificate with only one of the two is incomplete. The certificate has to follow a consultation. UTS names face-to-face, video and telephone as the accepted modalities.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at UTS, from its published policy.
Start my UTS consultUTS states it accepts medical certificates issued by a registered health practitioner after a face-to-face, video conferencing, or telephone consultation. A certificate produced without a consultation does not meet that description. The practitioner also has to supply their AHPRA registration and Medicare provider numbers.
It depends on the assessment. For a centrally conducted exam you attended, apply within 48 hours excluding weekends. For a faculty exam or quiz you attended, apply within two working days. If you cannot attend a faculty exam, apply at least ten working days beforehand, and for an assessment extension apply before the due date.
It is the form the practitioner completes for a UTS special consideration application. It records how severely your ability to complete the assessment was affected, on a scale from totally unable to slightly, and the start and end dates of the impact. It also asks for the AHPRA registration number and the Medicare provider number.
Yes. The UTS Professional Authority Form asks for the practitioner's Medicare provider number as well as their AHPRA practitioner registration number. Check both are present before you upload, because a missing number is a common reason for a request for more information.
Log in to My Student Portal with your UTS credentials and lodge the application there, attaching the Professional Authority Form. Applications are assessed by the faculty that runs the subject, not by a central office.
UTS'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 48 hours after a centrally conducted exam you attended, within two working days after a faculty exam or quiz, at least ten working days before an exam you cannot attend, and before the due date for an assessment extension.
Professional Authority Form completed by the doctor, plus the medical certificate.
UTS 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 and impact on your ability to complete the assessment or exam, from totally unable through very severely, severely, moderately and slightly, or unable to assess. The duration of the impact, with a start date and an end date. The practitioner's AHPRA practitioner registration number. The practitioner's Medicare provider number. The practitioner's signature and contact details, with remarks on the nature of the condition or the symptoms.
UTS is one of the few universities that asks for the Medicare provider number as well as the AHPRA registration number. A certificate with only one of the two is incomplete. The certificate has to follow a consultation. UTS names face-to-face, video and telephone as the accepted modalities. The severity scale is the point of the Professional Authority Form. A certificate that says you were unwell but does not rate the impact on the assessment is weak evidence.
Three outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
Use this when illness affected an exam you sat, or stopped you attending one. For a centrally conducted exam you attended, UTS asks for the application within 48 hours of the exam, excluding weekends.
A long extension moves the due date on an assessment task and is lodged before the original due date. The Professional Authority Form should state the start and end dates of the impact so the faculty can match the extension to the period you were affected.
If illness affected work you submitted or could not submit, apply for special consideration on that task. UTS asks the practitioner to rate how severely your ability to complete the task was affected.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate and the Professional Authority Form UTS asks for.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
