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Documentation

What can count as documentation:

  • A medical certificate (which you pay for)
  • A birth certificate (for parental leave)
  • A death certificate or similar
  • Other ways to document might work as well, but it needs to be very specific and valid.

In relation to illness a medical certificate is of the most importance. 
See below for all the details about the medical certificate.

Accesible formats:

  • PDF
  • Word
  • PNG
  • JPEG/JPG (we cannot open documents in HEIC format)

Do not insert links to the documents directly in the e-mail.

Documentation attached in other formats may prolong the processing time of your application.

The medical certificate

The purpose of the medical certificate is to document how, to what extent and how long your disorder or illness affects your ability to study and to complete your programme on the terms that normally apply.

The doctor is not obliged to inform which illness or disorder is involved, but it can help us understand the degree of influence on your ability to study or attend an exam. See below what the medical certificate needs so supply.

Adequate information gives us the best opportunity to assess whether there is reason to give you an exemption.


The requirements are aligned with executive order no. 908 of 18/08/2011 regarding "Executive Order on the issuance of medical certificates, etc."

The medical certificate needs to supply specific info:

Location

The patient / The doctor

Student info:
- Student full name

- Student CPR-number

- Student Address

Doctor and Clinic:
- Doctor full name and title (specialist title if possible)

- Practitioner’s ID number and authorization ID (ydernummer)

- Clinic address

Medical certificate

The certificate must:

- distinguish between information based on the doctors own examination of you, your information as a patient and third–party information from medical journals etc.

- inform whether you are a regular patient at the doctor or not

- be dated and provided with the doctors professional's signature or otherwise unambiguously attributable to the doctor

- address all issues relevant to fulfill the purpose of the certificate

Medical certificate

It must also include:

- a description of how the illness affects you and your ability to study or attend an exam

- the period for your illness (start date and how long it is expected to last)

- an indication - using percentages (%) of how much the illness affects your ability to study or attend exams

What's next

You can jump back to About exemptions or go to How to apply. You can expect a processing time of up to 8 weeks.