Medical certificate

A medical certificate can be requested from the student in various contexts, e.g. as a candidate for an examination from which he/she can only withdraw if valid reasons are given.

Submission of the medical certificate / deadline

A medical certificate must be submitted immediately. In the case-by-case interpretation of this deadline, the examination board is guided by labor law requirements. As a rule, the original certificate must be submitted no later than 3 days after deregistration or the examination date. Certificates are always submitted to the office that is directly affected by the candidate's absence due to illness. In the case of examinations, these are the examining institutes, which act on behalf of the examination board.

Information in the certificate

A medical certificate must contain the information required to determine incapacity to take examinations. (The latter is expressly the responsibility of the examination board.) If a doctor determines an inability to take an examination, this does not have to be accepted. It is also not desirable to state the diagnosis, the illness itself, on the certificate. Unless this alone makes the inability to take an examination apparent ("feverish cold"). Ideally, a certificate should include the symptoms as well as the effects on the examinee's performance.

It is also necessary to state the duration of the illness - beginning, (expected) end - and the date of the doctor's visit.