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Facial anatomy and planning safe treatments

Distinguish basic facial anatomy and evaluate safe treatment.

Facial anatomy and planning safe treatments
CPD 12.0 hours accredited learning
Learning format Self-paced online, start anytime
Recognition Digital badge upon completion

Overview

This comprehensive course, "Facial Anatomy and Planning Safe Treatments," equips medical professionals with essential knowledge for performing safe aesthetic treatments. Focusing on detailed facial anatomy, including surface anatomy, innervation, vascular structures, and musculature, it ensures practitioners can plan and deliver effective and safe interventions. Key topics include aesthetic sub-units of the face, nerve blocks, and safe injection techniques to prevent adverse effects. Ideal for those in aesthetic medicine, this course enhances understanding through case discussions, practical exercises, and evidence-based techniques.

What you will learn

  • Recognise key clinical features and subtypes
  • Develop practical treatment plans using topical, systemic and procedural options
  • Identify triggers, patient factors and long-term management strategies
  • Apply evidence-based approaches in everyday clinical practice

Course contents

Meet your presenter

Dr Chris Clifopoulos

Dr Chris Clifopoulos

MBBS MMed GDEB 

Skin Cancer and Aesthetic Medicine Physician, Croxton Medical Centre, Victoria

Principal doctor at Croxton Medical Centre, Dr Chris Clifopoulos established the practice shortly after completing his training as a resident doctor in St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. He then obtained his equivalent qualification in Athens. Chris obtained his First Part qualification training for the Royal Australasian College of Dermatology in 1995. He also completed a postgraduate diploma of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 1997 at the University of Melbourne. He completed his Master of Skin Cancer Medicine through The University of Queensland in 2011.

CPD hours

Education hours7.0
Reviewing performance hours5.0
Total CPD hours12.0

Accreditations

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

Accreditation number: 451728

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine

Accreditation number: 38783

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