Telepathology is the use of internet resources for pathology practices including diagnosis, research, and continuing education. The history of telemedicine and telepathology is a relatively short one. The first telemedicine session took place in space, as NASA remotely monitored the EKG of astronauts orbiting around the earth. The first real ground telepathology session was organized between Logan airport and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA, USA) in 1960s. Since then, there has been an amazing progress in the field (eg.; http://www.telepathology.com/). For veterinary pathologists, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in USA (http://www.afip.org/vetpath/) offers very good telepathology. In India, Anilkumar et al (2003; Indian Journal of Veterinary Pathology, 27 (1): 74) used and demonstrated telepathology for veterinary pathology practice in India.

1. For diagnostic pathologists, telepathology is basically "Second Opinion" on gross and microscopic images. It is useful for those veterinary pathologists staying in remote areas, and who would like a second opinion from experts or pathologists with more experience.
2. Research consultation is possible between scientists working in any part of the globe who are connected through the internet. Exchange of information is carried out in a format agreed previously.
3. For continuing education, internet resources are widely used in all subjects/areas of speciality and veterinary pathology is no exception.

This page of the iavp.org is dedicated for telepathology. Modalities for exchange of images on gross and histopathology for disease diagnosis and consultation are being developed.

1. Consultation and discussion using text scripts, rather than images, are currently possible at www.iavp.org. Members can ask questions, make clarifications and obtain second opinion on various aspects through a discussion forum. The opinion and communication from each member will be stored for certain duration in this location. The views and opinion will be accessible to other members through the net.
2. Continuing education is the major activity at this site, www.iavp.org. Members can store/publish their findings/data/case studies etc., in this page or sponsor/recommend such publications belonging to non-members. Several forms of digitised data are acceptable for web-posting. Please contact the Web Manager for details, if you wish to publish your material.

Members of IAVP (and contributing authors) can download the images and data for teaching/educational purpose after acknowledging the source and the author. A typical acknowledgement should contain the name of the author, case id if any, web-id and date. However, some date/images displayed here are retrieved from elsewhere. In such cases the copyright regulations of the primary source will have to be honoured, if not permitted specifically stated in the respective pages.