Aesthetic Procedures Course Description
Course Credits: Earn up to 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and AAFP Prescribed Credits.
Course Price: $1,695
Aesthetic Procedures is a two-day course.
As the population ages, more clinicians are asked to provide non-surgical aesthetic services for their patients. Designed for providers who have not been doing aesthetics in their practice, this course will review common aesthetic techniques currently suitable for primary care physicians. The techniques will be demonstrated when appropriate. Some approaches may require more in-depth study before implementation in your practice. The course will demonstrate how to appropriately work up an evaluation for the cosmetic patient and conduct an effective patient consultation. Learners will also be familiarized with botulinum toxin A, soft tissue fillers, submental fat injections, and cosmetic laser use.
Additionally, handouts will include information on facial peels, microdermabrasion, and aesthetic anesthesia and will be discussed as time permits. Finally, the learner will be familiarized with marketing and establishing a new aesthetic practice. Attendees will participate in locating appropriate areas for botulinum toxin injection sites and dosing. Some injections of botulinum toxin and fillers are typically performed by the course director when appropriate patients are available.
By the end of this activity, the participant should be better able to:
Cosmetic Patient Evaluation
- Discuss the unique requirements of the cosmetic patient.
- Conduct an effective cosmetic patient consultation.
- Identify various dermatologic classifications for an appropriate patient assessment.
- Discuss the general aging process of the skin.
Botulinum toxin A
- Learn what kind of wrinkles can be improved by non-surgical clinical methods.
- Discuss Botulinum toxin A storage, reconstitution, and injection techniques.
- Identify landmarks on other attendees and discuss injection dosing
- Discuss the use of anesthetics during cosmetic procedures.
Soft Tissue Fillers
- Review appropriate patients and locations for fillers.
- Discuss different types of fillers based on patient needs.
- Review general and specific area techniques (lips and cheek).
- Simulate injections on non-synthetic tissue.
Submental Fat Injections
- Learn the indications for decreasing submental fat.
- Discuss the anatomy associated with removing and injecting submental fat.
- Review safe injection techniques for this procedure.
Lasers
- Review the basic physics of laser operation.
- Become familiar with lasers for hair removal and wrinkle treatments.
- Determine whether laser hair removal is an appropriate therapy for your office.
Marketing Your Aesthetic Practice
- Locate a new practice either in an existing office or a new location.
- Promote the practice through advertising.
- Plan to acquire new equipment and office personnel rationally.
- Plan a path to success in a rapidly growing competitive marketplace.
Microdermabrasion and Facial Peels
- Discuss the basics of providing physician-office-based skin care.
- Learn how to perform an exfoliating peel.
- Compare acid, microdermabrasion, and laser exfoliation techniques.
- Discuss the role of an aesthetician to assist with the office practice of skin care.
2025 Course Accreditation
The Texas Academy of Family Physicians designates this live activity for a maximum of 15.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.
7:30 - 8:00 a.m.
• Registration and breakfast
Day One
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. — 1 CME credit
Introducing the Aesthetic Patient
• Discuss the unique requirements of the cosmetic patient.
Top Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures
• Discuss various cosmetic procedures that can be conducted in an office setting.
Conducting an Effective Cosmetic Patient Consultation
• Conduct effective cosmetic patient consultation.
• Identify various dermatologic classifications for an appropriate patient assessment.
General Aging Process and Common Dermatological Classifications
• Discuss the general aging process of the skin.
9:00 - 10:15 a.m. — 1.25 CME credits
Physiology of Muscle Denervation
• Discuss how botulinum toxin denervates the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) of the muscle end plates.
Static vs. Dynamic Facial Lines
• Learn what kind of wrinkles can be improved by non-surgical clinical methods.
Handling, Dilution, and Storage of Botulinum Toxin
• Discuss Botulinum Toxin storage, reconstitution, and injection techniques.
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. – Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. — 1.5 CME credits
Facial Muscle Anatomy: Essentials to Know
• Learn what kind of wrinkles can be improved by non-surgical clinical methods.
• Perform a clinical evaluation of the skin and choose appropriate treatment areas for desired results.
Botulinum Toxin Injection Techniques
• Discuss how botulinum toxin works for cosmetic treatment.
• Discuss how this can expand to certain medical treatments.
• Review the difference between different types of botulinum toxin type A.
• Compare the uses for botulinum toxin injections.
Post-Treatment Instructions
• Review post-treatment instructions including telling patients not to rub the injection sites so as to not spread the solution to adjacent muscles, do not lie down for 4 hours, exercise the muscles about every 15 minutes for 1-2 hours (raise brows, scowl deeply, smile).
Performing the Clinical Evaluation
• Assess the clinical effects of botulinum toxin on the skin.
• Evaluate dosages for selected patients for safe and effective treatment.
• Discuss the use of anesthetics during cosmetic procedures.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. — 1 CME credit
Botulinum Toxin, Cont.
• Discuss how botulinum toxin works for cosmetic treatment.
• Discuss how this can expand to certain medical treatments.
• Review the difference between different types of botulinum toxin type A.
• Compare the uses for botulinum toxin injections.
Treatment Contraindications
• Review contraindications for cosmetic botulinum toxin use in patients, including Pregnancy and breastfeeding (category C), Neuromuscular Junction (NMJ) Disorders, meds that interfere with NMJ transmission, allergy to constituents, and concurrent treatment with other tissue fillers.
Avoiding Complications
• Avoid various complications, including under and over-correction (creating temporary facial asymmetry), ptosis, bruising, bleeding, pain, and swelling.
• List other more serious complications, including infection, headache, flu-like syndrome (malaise, muscle aches, etc.), diplopia, dysesthesia, paresthesia, dry mouth, and drooling (perioral lines, orbicularis oris).
• Discuss how, in rare cases, onabotulinum toxin Type A may not work AT ALL in some patients and include this in the consent documentation.
Instructional Video and Hands-on Practice of Injections
• Watch an instructional video of botulinum toxin injections on patients and practice botulinum toxin injections on models.
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. — 1.25 CME credits
The Role of Lasers in Aesthetics
• Discuss the role of lasers in aesthetics to help patients with certain issues, including hair removal, vascular lesions, skin tightening, photo rejuvenation, cellulite treatment, acne and acne scars, and pigmented lesions.
The Physics of Laser Light
• Review the basic physics of laser operation.
Types of Aesthetic Lasers
• Review types of lasers that can be added to clinical practice to assist patients with cosmetic and other conditions, including pulse dye lasers, ablative and sub-ablative technologies, Erb:Yag, fractional lasers, and Q-Switched lasers
Intense Pulsed Light (IPL)
• Review Intense Pulsed Light (IPL), a non-laser light source that emits non-coherent multi-wave light in pulses.
• List uses for IPL, including age spots, telangiectasias, rosacea, benign brown pigments, hypertrichosis, acne, warts, hypertrophic scars, and photo rejuvenation.
Laser Hair Removal: How it Works | Who it Helps
• Define permanent Hair Reduction as the long-term, stable reduction in the number of hairs regrowing after a treatment regime.
• Counsel patients that permanent hair reduction does not necessarily imply the elimination of all hairs in the treatment area.
• Become familiar with lasers for hair removal and wrinkle treatments.
• Determine whether laser hair removal is an appropriate therapy for your office.
Ablative vs. Non-Ablative Lasers
• Review uses for ablative lasers and how they can vaporize and destroy the dermis can lead to significant downtime, have a higher risk of adverse events, and lead to more dramatic and quicker changes.
• Review uses for non-ablative lasers and how they keep the epidermis intact can be done quickly with little to no downtime, lead to fewer side effects, result in softer changes, and can take a longer time to experience benefits.
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. – Break
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. — 1 CME credit
Business Plan
• Develop a business plan, including a mission and vision, defining business objectives, determining cost structure, determining patient demographics, and conducting a SWOT analysis.
• Locating a new practice either in an existing office or a new location.
• Promoting the practice through advertising.
Cost Consideration
• Planning to acquire new equipment and office personnel rationally.
• Planning a path to success in a rapidly growing competitive marketplace, even in a poor economy.
• Review specific costs, including Malpractice insurance, new advertising initiatives, and equipment and supplies costs.
New Business Marketing
• Promoting the practice through advertising.
• Develop a plan to market to current and new patients, develop new business relationships, and how you are qualified to conduct these procedures.
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. — 0.5 CME credits
Clinical Questions for Aesthetic Procedures
• Identify various dermatologic classifications for an appropriate patient assessment.
• Discuss the general aging process of skin.
• Review clinical questions patients may have for aesthetic procedures offered, including botulinum toxin and use of lasers.
• Review the general aging process of the skin and how you can help patients achieve their goals.
Additional Questions of Clinical Nature and Questions & Answer Session
• Allow time for learners to directly ask clinical questions and aesthetic procedure questions to the faculty.
Day Two
8:00 – 10:15 a.m. — 2.25 CME credits
Soft Tissue Fillers: How are Fillers used?
• Assemble plans to address requests for dermal fillers, particularly among patients who may want injections to reduce the signs of aging.
• Assess the risks and benefits involved in performing dermal filler injections.
• Outline appropriate treatment techniques for dermal filler injections.
• Know how to select and implement tissue fillers for the most effective patient outcome.
• Discuss the use of anesthetics during cosmetic procedures.
Hyaluronic Acid and Other Favorites
• Discuss the use of hyaluronic acid, fat transfer, and collagen stimulators as dermal fillers.
Vermilion and Nasolabial Fold Techniques
• Discuss the vermilion and nasolabial techniques, including the need to use thicker products.
• Review how the threading technique is more common
• Discuss the use of anesthetics during cosmetic procedures.
Instructional Video and Hands-on Techniques of Soft Tissue Fillers
• Watch an instructional video of soft tissue filler injections in patients and practice soft filler injections on models.
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. – Break
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. — 0.5 CME credits
Hands-on Techniques of Fillers, Cont.
• Know how to select and implement tissue fillers for the most effective patient outcome.
11:00 – 11:45 a.m. — 0.75 CME credits
Deoxycholic Acids – Submental Fat Injection Evaluation
• Review deoxycholic acids and know that when injected it results in lipolysis of adipocytes and the destruction of fat cells.
• Discuss the anatomy associated with removing and injecting submental fat.
Techniques for Injection
Review safe injection techniques for this procedure.
Submental Fat Injections
• Learn the indications for decreasing submental fat.
• Discuss the anatomy associated with removing and injecting submental fat.
• Review safe injection techniques for this procedure.
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. — 0.25 CME credits
Question and Answer
• Allow time for learners to directly ask clinical questions and aesthetic procedure questions to the faculty.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. – Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. — 1 CME credit
Business Plan, Part 2: Staffing, Photography, Training
• Discuss the role of an aesthetician to assist with the office practice of skin care.
• Discuss the use of photography for cosmetic procedures to demonstrate to patients the before and aftereffects of each procedure.
• Adequately seek training for these procedures through CME courses, monitoring the industry, reading journals, joining medical societies, and utilizing preceptors.
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. — 1.25 CME credits
Submental Fat Injections, Cont.
• Learn the indications for decreasing submental fat
• Discuss the anatomy associated with removing and injecting submental fat.
• Review safe injection techniques for this procedure.
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. – Break
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. — 1.5 CME credits
Chemical Peels
• Learn how to perform an exfoliating peel.
Microdermabrasion
• Compare acid, microdermabrasion, and laser exfoliation techniques.
Skin Care Products
• Discuss the basics of providing physician-office-based skin care.
Question and Answer
• Allow time for learners to directly ask clinical questions and aesthetic procedure questions to the faculty.
TOTAL CME CREDITS: 15
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