A Core Curriculum for Postgraduate Program in Nonsurgical Aesthetics

What is it about?

The curriculum must be comprehensive to address the need of patients and practitioners. It is essential to develop a curriculum that ensures patients’ safety, patient care, professionalism, and procedural skills without compromising trainees’ learning experience. Traditionally, postgraduate medical education and training curriculum is designed and developed by program leads and validated by experts from the same institution. Trainee physicians are critical stakeholders and are often ignored in the curriculum development process. However, it is recommended to consult stakeholders such as educationalists, trainees, non-expert members of the society, and other support functions, thereby assuring the development of an equitable, versatile curriculum and following the patients’ current needs with the ability to evolve to accommodate future needs of the patients. Additionally, a curriculum must facilitate excellence by providing enough opportunity for continuous assessment and trainers’ feedback to trainees. Therefore, the current study uses a modified Delphi technique to identify the content and structure of an evidence-based postgraduate NSA curriculum.

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Why is it important?

The desire for portraying a young and beautiful face and body is driving people to seek aesthetic treatment and accelerating the exponential growth of nonsurgical aesthetic (NSA) procedures. Unfortunately, despite impressive advances, NSA is yet to have a formal clinical education program.

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