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This study presents our overall approach to immersive teleclinics and the development of a social VR platform for conducting such assessments. The application enables clinicians to perform remote testing sessions that begin in a virtual waiting room and continue with a combination of clinician-guided desk-based tasks and independent test activities. Clinicians can monitor patient performance in real time through dedicated dashboards. We evaluated the system with healthy participants (pseudo-patients) and clinicians using standard measures of usability (SUS), presence (MPS), and acceptability (UTAUTQ). Initial results indicated good usability, a strong sense of presence, and high acceptability among pseudo-patients. Clinicians were more hesitant, citing usability issues, uncertainty about the clinical validity of VR-based tests, and concerns about avatar quality for psychological interviews. 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