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Many factors go into deciding the right procedures and training option to you to begin your successful aesthetic medical career. We hope you found this website useful to organize you thoughts and guide you to the next step. If you have any further questions, please contact us using the chat box below and we will do our best to answer your question. In the meantime, please read some of our most common Frequently Asked Questions…
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Should I Travel to the Best Training? Is it Worth It?
This is THE most common question. The simple answer is that bad training a mile from your home is still bad training and will put you at a disadvantage for a very long time, if not for life.
Let’s say that you spend $1,000 on a flight and hotel, get good, small-group training taught by an experienced professional who is there for your questions afterwards. Maybe you also have your learning reinforced by going back to an online training component to review periodically.
Your new practice attracts 4 new Botox patients and 1 new filler patient per week. That is very conservative, but let’s go with it. Assuming the typical revenue for each treatment plus an 80% retention rate for follow up visit #2 and beyond, you will generate $214,240 in year one revenue. Now say your training is not as good but your marketing is. That means you treat the same number of new patients per week but only retain 50% instead of 80%. That would generate $176,800 or around $40,000 less. And that is just in the first year alone. Good training helped you earn 23% more revenue attracting the same number of new patients, and that paid for your travel costs 20x over.
Is a $400 flight and a hotel room to travel to the right training worth it now? It is if it generates $40,000 more revenue in year one alone.
Will a Training Course Find Me a Job?
One of the most egregious promises an aesthetic training program can make is to choose them because they have connections to help you find a job. Some programs even prominently link a password-protected “Job Board” only for “members”. ALL (not some) of these boards are either full of dead links, want experienced providers, or simply re-post listings that are publicly available at other job sites like monster.com. Moreover, a certificate from one company with a big fancy name, or a title that they might award you like “Board Certified” or “Master Injector” means nothing. The MD physicians on the Aesthetic-Training.com advisory board universally would not consider an applicant who stresses that she is a “master” or “advanced” injector based on a training course and not based on years of experience and patient retention rate.
The best way to get a job as an entry level RN in aesthetics is to create one. You know plenty of physicians in your community from your hospital practice. Ask if you can “booth rent” space from them and give them a percentage of your income as rent, using the physician there as your medical director. Companies like PracticalCME have accredited online training that a medical director candidate can take without traveling. Then focus all of your initial marketing to the patient base in that practice.
Are IV Hydration Classes worth it?
The human body is an incredible machine. Our Digestive and Renal systems’ ability to absorb what we need and eliminate what we do not works flawlessly for over 99.5% of our time on planet Earth. In cases of disease, IV’s are needed, but there is no physiologic need to routinely bypass a functioning GI Tract. It is unethical to profit or offer treatments that are indicated in disease, to those that do not need them. It is also unethical to advertise these treatments as healthy or beneficial to those who do not have disease. Therefore, this is a service that creates more trouble than it is worth. It is not a skill and it does not enhance the quality of life of your patients. Just because everyone else is doing something does not mean you should also.
What about Lasers and RF Devices?
In general, the best aesthetic procedures are …
- In high demand.
- Have noticeable results that make patients want to return for more.
- Carry low to no risk.
- Provide great benefit compared to the cost and recovery time of the treatment.
Also the best procedures do not create debt or a large monthly payment that will burden a new provider for years. BTX and Fillers are profitable from day one. The others we spotlight here require minimal equipment purchases that are generally under $5,000 and can be paid off after a few treatment packages. No piece of equipment that plugs into the wall satisfies the above criteria.
Since the approval of Botox in 2002, numerous devices that plug into wall power and cost from $30,000 to $100,000+ have littered the landscape of aesthetic medicine. Not one of these machines is still viable or in demand today, yet Botox and Fillers reach new heights of popularity every year. All of these machines that now gather dust were once the darlings of the industry with plenty of hype and buzz, mostly created by the marketing paid for by equipment companies and sales at large conferences. This still happens today. Yet these machine-based procedures are not skills. Your reputation lies with the equipment, not your ability to use it better than anyone else. Less than half of the machines that are delivered, are retired before they are even fully paid for with patient revenue.
It is better to invest in yourself and train in the skills that you can use with your brain and your own two hands. Then, once you have saved up $50,000 or more, and want to purchase some equipment, because you have identified a need in your patient base, you can do it without debt. Take this advice from many providers who have already sold unprofitable equipment for pennies on the dollar in the past.