Western Sydney University
A real-time consult with a registered Australian doctor. If the doctor signs off, you receive the medical certificate to attach to your WSU application.
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A special consideration form is not guaranteed.
Start my WSU consultWSU's rules don't mention telehealth. A certificate is judged on what it states and who issued it.
Applications go through Western Sydney University service portal.
Within five working days of the assessment due date, the missed compulsory activity, or when your circumstances began. See a doctor the day you are unwell, not after the deadline.
Western Sydney's special consideration and supporting documentation pages do not address the modality of the consultation. They require independent documentation, signed and dated, with enough detail for the severity of the condition to be reasonably ascertained.
Enough medical detail for the severity and gravity of the condition to be reasonably ascertained in relation to your teaching, learning or assessment tasks. The dates you were affected, matching the assessment or compulsory activity you missed.
Supporting documentation must be independent. Your own account of the illness is not evidence, and the document has to be signed and dated. Documents not in English need a certified translation.
Deadlines, portals and evidence rules at WSU, from its published policy.
Start my WSU consultWestern Sydney's published rules do not address how the consultation happened. They ask for independent documentation, signed and dated, with enough detail for the severity of the condition to be reasonably ascertained. Silence on modality is not the same as acceptance, so make sure the certificate carries real clinical detail.
Within five working days of the assessment due date, the missed compulsory teaching activity, or the date your circumstances began. Late applications are possible, but your supporting documentation then has to cover the late submission as well.
It needs enough medical detail that the severity and gravity of the condition can be reasonably ascertained in relation to your teaching, learning or assessment. It must be independent, signed and dated. A one line note that you were unwell does not meet that standard.
Only as a last resort. Western Sydney says a statutory declaration may be considered for special consideration or a deferred exam where no other supporting document is available. A certificate from a practitioner is the stronger evidence.
Western Sydney publishes an exception for the first extension request in a subject. Every other application, including later extensions in the same subject, needs supporting documentation lodged with it.
WSU'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 five working days of the assessment due date, the missed compulsory activity, or when your circumstances began.
The medical certificate after a real-time doctor call.
WSU 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.
Enough medical detail for the severity and gravity of the condition to be reasonably ascertained in relation to your teaching, learning or assessment tasks. The dates you were affected, matching the assessment or compulsory activity you missed. The date the document was signed, on official letterhead where relevant. The practitioner's name, registration and signature.
Supporting documentation must be independent. Your own account of the illness is not evidence, and the document has to be signed and dated. Documents not in English need a certified translation. A statutory declaration is only considered for special consideration or a deferred exam where no other supporting document is available, so get a certificate while you are unwell. You can lodge a late application, but the supporting documentation then has to cover the reason for the late submission as well as the original illness.
Four outcomes, one application, the same evidence.
Special consideration covers compassionate and compelling circumstances that affected an assessment task. Apply within five working days of the due date, the missed activity, or the start of your circumstances.
An extension moves the due date on an assessment task. Western Sydney asks for the request within the same five working day window and, for later requests in a subject, with supporting documentation attached.
Compulsory classes, labs and placements have their own attendance requirements, and illness that stops you attending is handled through the same application. The certificate needs to name the dates of the classes you missed.
If illness stopped you sitting an exam, apply for special consideration and ask for a deferred exam. The medical documentation needs enough detail for the severity of the condition to be assessed against the exam date.
Sorted within the day. A real-time consult with a registered doctor, then the certificate WSU asks you to attach.
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The same consult, with each university's own rules and deadline.
