Introducing the Whiteboard: Annotate, educate & share with ease using Cetra for Vets

Looking for a way to make client communication quicker, clearer, and more personalised? Meet the Whiteboard feature from Cetra for Vets, a powerful tool designed to transform the way you share clinical information during consultations. 

From live annotations to customised treatment notes, our Whiteboard allows veterinary professionals to draw directly on handouts, highlight specific issues, and share personalised visuals instantly with pet owners. Whether you're a vet, vet nurse, educator or student, this new feature adds a whole new dimension to how you use Cetra. 

Veterinary communication tool: why Cetra developed the Whiteboard feature 

We built the Whiteboard feature in direct response to feedback from our users. Over recent months, a consistent request kept coming up: “Can we annotate directly on the illustrations?” We heard this loud and clear and got to work creating a tool that would make client communication faster, clearer, and more personalised for every consultation. 

Our development team then built a functional annotation tool that works seamlessly across our full handout library. The result? A time-saving, communication-boosting feature that’s designed for real clinical workflows. 

What Is the Cetra Whiteboard? A new tool for better veterinary consultations 

The Whiteboard is an easy-to-use digital tool designed to enhance your veterinary consultations by allowing full annotation flexibility on educational handouts. Whether you're discussing a diagnosis, explaining treatment options, or guiding pet owners through complex anatomy, the Whiteboard helps make your advice more visual and easier to understand. 

With the Whiteboard, you can add custom text notes to handouts, draw or mark-up injuries and treatment areas, and highlight or circle key anatomical structures. This lets you tailor each resource to the specific pet and consultation. 

You can also save your annotations for future reference, making it easier to track progress or revisit key points in follow-up appointments. Once your handout is annotated, you can share it instantly via text, email, WhatsApp, or a unique link, ensuring your client always has a copy they won’t misplace. 

How the Whiteboard helps vets in consultations 

Client education is more effective when it’s clear and visual. 

With the Whiteboard, you can personalise handouts during a consultation to reflect the pet’s condition, then send that exact version to the owner instantly. Whether you're marking up a Feline Cushing's Disease Handout or explaining Canine Hip Dysplasia, your notes stay visible. 

Why digital sharing works better for pet owners 

Let's face it, paper gets lost. Pet owners often misplace printed advice sheets while juggling leads, carriers or kids on the way home from the vet. With Cetra’s Whiteboard, clients receive a digital copy of their personalised, annotated handout, making it easy for them to review the information anytime, anywhere. 

Cetra is a game-changer for students & new graduates 

The Whiteboard isn't just for consultations; it’s a powerful study tool too. 

Veterinary students and new grads can: 

• Annotate anatomy diagrams with notes for revision 

• Save marked-up copies to revisit before exams 

• Learn to explain procedures and conditions more clearly 

• Build confidence in client communication 

With hundreds of expert-written handouts, anatomy diagrams, and client education tools, Cetra supports learning from day one. 

Benefits of the interactive Whiteboard for veterinary teams 

For established veterinary professionals, the Whiteboard is a valuable clinical tool that supports: 

• Tailored communication 

• Better continuity of care 

• Streamlined treatment tracking 

• Easy collaboration across the team 

Every annotated handout can be saved to your personal or clinic library and even linked to a pet’s records for future reference, meaning any member of your team can pick up right where you left off. 

Try the free Whiteboard today 

The Whiteboard is part of Cetra’s mission to help you improve communication, save time, and deliver high-quality care, with tools built for real-world vet practice. 

If you are already a Cetra member, you can log in now to explore the Whiteboard feature and start creating more engaging consultations. 

If you are new to Cetra you can sign up for a FREE 14-day trial and get full access of our interactive Whiteboard feature.