{"id":344,"date":"2018-01-19T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=344"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T22:58:05","slug":"flinders-health-services-available-fisc-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2018\/01\/19\/flinders-health-services-available-fisc-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Flinders Health Services available to FISC students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are asking yourself &#8211; &#8220;what the hell is FISC?&#8221;, then this post is probably not for you.<\/p>\n<p>FISC (Flinders International Study Centre) helps prepare international students to pursue a degree at Flinders University. They teach subject specific knowledge, study skills, English language skills and cultural adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a FISC student, its important that you know that some of the Flinders Health, Counselling and Disability Services are available to you. This includes access to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/flinders.edu.au\/\/current-students\/healthandcounselling\/health-service\/health-service_home.cfm\">general practitioners<\/a> at the University\u2019s Health, Counselling and Disability Services on the same basis as available to Flinders University students;<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/flinders.edu.au\/current-students\/healthandcounselling\/counselling\/counselling_home.cfm\">counsellors<\/a> at the University\u2019s Health, Counselling and Disability Service on the same basis as available to Flinders University students; and<\/li>\n<li>the prayer rooms and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/oasis\/\">OASIS<\/a> wellbeing centre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FISC students can also access an initial assessment from a <a href=\"http:\/\/flinders.edu.au\/current-students\/healthandcounselling\/disabilities.cfm\">Disability Advisor<\/a> for the purpose of developing an Access Plan <em>[an Access Plan is a description of the impact of any disabilities you have on your ability to study, and any agreed supports or adjustments to assessment or exams as a result]<\/em>. Ongoing supports however will have to come from the school (i.e. FISC).<\/p>\n<p>Have a good day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are asking yourself &#8211; &#8220;what the hell is FISC?&#8221;, then this post is probably not for you. FISC (Flinders International Study Centre) helps prepare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[327,328],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flinders-services-and-programs","tag-fisc","tag-international-students"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}