Spring 2027

Clinical Dermatology Rotation

A clinical rotation developing technical and clinical skills to examine, diagnose, and manage dermatology patients in dogs and cats.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lara Tomich

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Perform a client interview and obtain historical data that is necessary and pertinent to establishing the cause of skin disease in a dog or cat

  • Identify and describe the major lesion types that may be found during dermatologic examination of a dog or cat

  • Demonstrate performance of flea combing, skin scraping, and trichogram procedures as used to assess a patient for parasitic skin disease

  • Perform and interpret the results of a skin cytology, combine the results with gross observations on dermatologic examination, and interpret these findings to suggest presence/absence and etiologic diagnosis of either yeast or bacterial skin infection, including providing initial treatment recommendations

  • Perform and interpret the results of an ear cytology, using the results to suggest both an etiologic diagnosis of the condition and an appropriate initial treatment regimen

  • Outline a logical diagnostic approach sequence (including examinations and tests to be performed) for a dog with a primary owner complaint of pruritic skin disease, aimed at creating a focused list of differential diagnoses specific to the pet’s particular condition

  • Provide a list of differential diagnoses for a dog with an owner primary complaint of nonpruritic, generalized, noninflammatory hair loss, along with diagnostic tests that would be useful to rule out each of the proposed differential diagnoses

  • Describe the role of “foundation” and “accessory” treatments in canine atopic dermatitis; list the main available treatment options for each of these categories of treatments along with their advantages, disadvantages, contraindications, and potential adverse effects

  • List the four main reaction patterns in feline skin that are suggestive of a hypersensitivity disorder, and tests that might be used to establish a definitive diagnosis for these patterns

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with fourth year standing

  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with fourth year standing
MEDSC-V 668

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  • Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with fourth year standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LARA TOMICH is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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FLD 001Classroom Instruction0 / 500

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Dermatology patient examination and management
  • Major lesion types in canine and feline dermatology
  • Parasitic skin disease assessment procedures
  • Skin cytology and infectious disease diagnosis
  • Canine atopic dermatitis treatment strategies
  • Feline hypersensitivity disorders and diagnostics

Skills

  • Examine, diagnose, and manage dermatology patients
  • Client interviewing and historical data collection for skin disease
  • Identification of major dermatologic lesion types
  • Performance of flea combing, skin scraping, and trichogram procedures
  • Skin cytology interpretation and diagnostic synthesis
  • Logical diagnostic approach and differential diagnosis formulation

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Catalog & offerings

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MEDSC-V 668 · Spring 2027

Clinical Dermatology Rotation

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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