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TRANSITIONING TO TELEDERMATOLOGY OVER NIGHT
Dermatology World talked to Sara Perkins, MD, from Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology, about the successful transition of the ambulatory practice from a completely office-based practice to a primarily teledermatology model.
Dermatology World: Tell us about your practice setup.
Dr. Perkins: In terms of what our practice looked like in the pre-crisis era, we had three main clinical sites (in New Haven, Branford, Middlebury) and one site within the Yale Health Plan, a closed system mainly for students, faculty, and staff at the university. We have 24 full-time faculty members. Yale is a huge research enterprise, so a good portion of those faculty members aren’t seeing patients every day. Across those sites, we were accommodating about 1,100-1,200 patients a week.
Source: American Academy of Dermatology