Dermatology Teleconsultations for Veterinarians
Teleconsultations for Veterinarians are Now Available!
VetDERM Clinic is dedicated to providing continued guidance and support for dermatological and ear care for pets. Our online consultations will help your pet patients and their families by addressing skin or ear concerns thoroughly, including itch control, allergy work up, long-term allergy management, discussion of individualized treatment options, and dietary advice. Our veterinary dermatologist can also help you understand the severity of your pet patient’s ears and skin and how best to assist in managing their conditions, so that recurrent problems or progressive chronic complications do not arise.
Why Choose Online Skin Consultations?
All veterinarians can benefit from furthering their education on matters such as pet allergy, dermatological, and ears management and treatment for their patients. Teleconsultation removes the barrier of pets seeing a dermatologist directly and allows family veterinarians all across BC to work with our staff and pet dermatologist, and help patients with dermatology and allergy care expertise if it may not be available to some patients directly by visiting our vet dermatology and ear clinic. The main goal of all professionals involved in VetDERM Clinic’s work is to keep our pet patients as comfortable as possible and improve their quality of life.
Our values at VetDERM Clinic are to be caring, knowledgeable, trustworthy, thorough, innovative, and supportive, not only to veterinarians but also to the pet families they serve. To support these values, we have decided to initiate teleconsulting for veterinarians at once for their clients and pets that may not be able to see our veterinary dermatologist directly. Some examples where the situation applies are:
- The pet lives outside of the Lower Mainland and travel is difficult due to pet or family consideration.
- As part of VetDERM Clinic’s fear-free principles, if a pet cannot go to the dermatology clinic due to anxiety of travel, anxiety of veterinary exam, etc.
- COVID-19 pandemic related inability to come in for direct consult and dermatology examination.
- Triage through the veterinarian to assess if a patient will benefit from seeing a dermatologist, including the benefits of a specialty dermatology examination.
- Obtaining a short-term treatment plan for the pet, to help bring relief to a pet before they can come to see our dermatologist and dermatology team.
Together, we can be the first line of educating our clients on how to best address ear or dermatology concerns in pets, thus helping them improve their pets’ skin or ear problems as well as improving the pet’s quality of life.
Book a Veterinary Online Appointment Now
Veterinarian Initial Teleconsultation
(Video or Phone appointment)
30 minute video/phone call.
Pre-payment is made through E-Transfer and must be completed before the scheduled appointment.
Information to submit:
1) Detailed summary of patient’s dermatological history (please do not send complete medical records)
2) Diagnostic test results completed in the last year (including relevant longer term diagnostic test results)
3) Pictures of patient lesions (if any)
Note: Please remember that while great care is taken in the preparation of consultations to veterinarians, recommendations made are based only on the material provided. This may not truly reflect the nature of the case and may not be appropriate to the individual patient. Veterinarians are reminded that the case remains under their care and responsibility, and our recommendations represent only suggestions. To minimize risks of medication related adverse effects and transcription error, all suggested treatments and doses should be checked based on individual patient history by the attending primary veterinarian, using standard texts and formularies.
$102.60 (plus tax)
Veterinarian Initial Teleconsultation
(Email communication)
All email consults will be responded to within 48 business hours from the time of acceptance of submission.
Pre-payment is made through E-Transfer and must be completed before submission is accepted.
Information to submit:
1) Detailed summary of patient’s dermatological history (please do not send complete medical records)
2) Diagnostic test results completed in the last year (including relevant longer term diagnostic test results)
3) Pictures of patient lesions (if any)
Note: Please remember that while great care is taken in the preparation of consultations to veterinarians, recommendations made are based only on the material provided. This may not truly reflect the nature of the case and may not be appropriate to the individual patient. Veterinarians are reminded that the case remains under their care and responsibility, and our recommendations represent only suggestions. To minimize risks of medication related adverse effects and transcription error, all suggested treatments and doses should be checked based on individual patient history by the attending primary veterinarian, using standard texts and formularies.
$102.60 (plus tax)
Veterinarian Follow-up Teleconsultation
(Video or Phone appointment)
20 minute video/phone call
For ongoing patient care.
Pre-payment is made through E-Transfer and must be completed before the scheduled appointment.
Follow-ups only qualify if we’ve consulted on patient in the past.
Information to submit:
1) Detailed summary of patient’s dermatological history (please do not send complete medical records)
2) Diagnostic test results completed in the last year (including relevant longer term diagnostic test results)
3) Pictures of patient lesions (if any)
Note: Please remember that while great care is taken in the preparation of consultations to veterinarians, recommendations made are based only on the material provided. This may not truly reflect the nature of the case and may not be appropriate to the individual patient. Veterinarians are reminded that the case remains under their care and responsibility, and our recommendations represent only suggestions. To minimize risks of medication related adverse effects and transcription error, all suggested treatments and doses should be checked based on individual patient history by the attending primary veterinarian, using standard texts and formularies.
$102.60 (plus tax)
Veterinarian Follow-up Teleconsultation
(Email communication)
All email consults will be responded to within 48 business hours from the time of acceptance of submission.
For ongoing patient care.
Pre-payment is made through E-Transfer and must be completed before submission is accepted.
Follow-ups only qualify if we’ve consulted on the patient in the past.
Information to submit:
1) Detailed summary of patient’s dermatological history (please do not send complete medical records)
2) Diagnostic test results completed in the last year (including relevant longer term diagnostic test results)
3) Pictures of patient lesions (if any)
Note: Please remember that while great care is taken in the preparation of consultations to veterinarians, recommendations made are based only on the material provided. This may not truly reflect the nature of the case and may not be appropriate to the individual patient. Veterinarians are reminded that the case remains under their care and responsibility, and our recommendations represent only suggestions. To minimize risks of medication related adverse effects and transcription error, all suggested treatments and doses should be checked based on individual patient history by the attending primary veterinarian, using standard texts and formularies.
$102.60 (plus tax)
How It Works
It’s very easy for veterinarians to use our teleconsultation service. Simply follow the instructions below.
- Contact reception to book an appointment or confirm submission, including payment.
- Send a pre-payment of your online consult’s fee via e-transfer.
- Submit all forms and information required.
- A Zoom invite will be sent to you via email on the morning of the scheduled appointment. (For phone or video-based consultations only)
- Communicate with Dr. Bajwa at the scheduled time. We look forward to seeing you at the scheduled time! (For phone or video-based consultations only)
- A written report will be sent to you after the phone or video appointment; or within 48 business hours of submission of the case, in terms of e-mail submissions.