Medical Esthetician Class -
$8950.00 -
This is a cash pay class.
Because it is less then 600 hours it does not qualify for
Financial Assistance.
We
specialize in Teaching to the
Medical Based Skincare Level and We have the
Equipment to support our intensive curriculum!
Medical Esthetician
(Medical Assisting in Skincare & Lasers)
Our Medical Esthetics workshop
opens up opportunities to work in a medical spa under the
direction or supervision of a Physician. This workshop is open to anyone who
wishes to enroll and no previous knowledge of lasers of medical
assisting in skincare is needed..
Topics Covered:
- State Laws, Rules & Regulations, Scope of Practice
- Medical Based Skincare
- Advanced Peels
- Advanced Microdermabrasion
- Layered Technology and Combination Therapies
- Pre & Post Operative Treatments Incorporating Lymphatic
Drainage Therapies
- Assisting with Dermatological & Cosmetic Procedures:
Fillers & Injectables, Botox, Collagen, Restylane
- Laser Hair Removal
- Fraxel laser - photo damage
- Fraxel laser - wrinkles
- Fraxel laser - texture & rejuvenation
- Fraxel laser - acne scaring, scars
- Fraxel laser - stretch marks
- Fraxel laser - collagen remodeling
- Intro to: Lasers versus Light Therapy
- IPL: Hair removal
- IPL: Broken Capillaries, Vascular Blemishes
- IPL: Pigmented Blemishes
- IPL: Photorejuvenation
- Laser: Broken Capillaries, Vascular Blemishes
- Laser: Pigmented Blemishes
- Laser: Photorejuvenation
MEDICAL ESTHETICS CLASS meets 10-5 Wednesdays or Saturdays -
for 6 weeks
or 6 days in a row "Fast Track" section (pre approval
required)
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Laser Hair
Removal Technician Class
- $8950.00
Our Laser Skin Rejuvenation and Laser Hair Removal
workshop opens up opportunities to work in a medical spa under
the direction or supervision of a Physician. This workshop is
open to anyone who wishes to enroll.
Topics Covered:
- Laser Hair removal
- Intro to :
- Laser: Broken Capillaries, Vascular Blemishes
- Laser: Pigmented Blemishes
- Laser: Photorejuvenation
- IPL: Hair removal
- IPL: Broken Capillaries, Vascular Blemishes
- IPL: Pigmented Blemishes
- IPL: Photorejuvenation
- Fraxel laser
LASER CLASS meets 10-5 Tuesdays or Saturdays - 6 weeks
or 6 days in a row "Fast Track" section (pre approval
required)
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LASER HAIR REMOVAL - VA LAW
VIRGINIA
BOARD OF MEDICINE
GUIDANCE DOCUMENT
FOR
LIGHT-BASED HAIR REMOVAL IN PHYSICIAN PRACTICES
INTRODUCTION
Light-based hair removal is and has been
available in Virginia
in physicians’ practices and, as in other states, in nonmedical
settings as well.
The Board of Medicine receives a number of inquiries about the
modality, usually in the realm of, “Does the Board of Medicine
have laws or regulations governing light-based hair removal?”
and “Is light-based hair removal considered the practice of
medicine?”
There have been no Board of Medicine laws
or regulations that specifically address light-based hair
removal to inform the public, physicians and Board staff about
this modality. Given the
level of interest and lack of clarity in
Virginia
and across the nation on this matter, the Board determined that
a review of the practice of laser hair removal should be
undertaken. To accomplish this, an Ad Hoc Committee on Laser
Hair Removal comprised of Board members and stakeholders was
appointed to study light-based hair removal as it relates to the
practice of medicine, public safety and the Board’s role.
CURRENT VIRGINIA LAW
There
is nothing in Virginia law specific to
laser hair removal, the use of lasers or the delegation of
authority to use lasers. However,
in Section 54.1-2400.01 of the
Code of Virginia,
there is a definition of laser surgery as follows:
As
used in this subtitle, "laser surgery" means treatment through
revision, destruction, incision or other structural alteration
of human tissue using laser technology. Under this definition,
the continued use of laser technology solely for nonsurgical
purposes of examination and diagnosis shall be permitted for
those professions whose licenses permit such use.
Additionally, Chapter 29 in
Title 54.1 (the Medical Practice Act) has general law about
delegation. Found in Section 54.1-2901, there are exceptions to
the requirement for a license to practice medicine in (4) and
(6) for:
…4.
Any registered professional nurse, licensed nurse practitioner,
graduate laboratory technician or other technical personnel who
have been properly trained from rendering care or services
within the scope of their usual professional activities which
shall include the taking of blood, the giving of intravenous
infusions and intravenous injections, and the insertion of tubes
when performed under the orders of a person licensed to practice
medicine;
6. Any practitioner
licensed or certified by the Board from delegating to personnel
supervised by him, such activities or functions as are
nondiscretionary and do not require the exercise of professional
judgment for their performance and which are usually or
customarily delegated to such persons by practitioners of the
healing arts, if such activities or functions are authorized by
and performed for such practitioners of the healing arts and
responsibility for such activities or functions is assumed by
such practitioners of the healing arts;…
CURRENT VIRGINIA REGULATIONS
Again,
there are no Board regulations on the practice of laser hair
removal in physician practices, but
18VAC85-20-29 on practitioner responsibility specifies that:
A.
A practitioner shall not:
1. Knowingly allow
subordinates to jeopardize patient safety or provide patient
care outside of the subordinate’s scope of practice or area of
responsibility. Practitioners shall delegate patient care only
to subordinates who are properly trained and supervised;
The
foregoing laws and regulations make it quite clear that a
licensee of the Board can delegate certain tasks and will be
held accountable for the performance by subordinates.
What is
not clear from the above laws and regulations is whether
light-based hair removal is the practice of medicine.
MEDICAL OR AESTHETIC?
The
statutory argument made for light-based hair removal not being
considered the practice of medicine is the definition of the
practice of medicine in the Code of Virginia.
Section 54.1-2900 defines the practice of medicine as:
Practice of
medicine or osteopathic medicine" means the prevention,
diagnosis and treatment of human physical or mental ailments,
conditions, diseases, pain or infirmities by any means or
method.”
Given
that normal hair follicles and normal hairs are the target of
services, there appears to be no prevention or diagnosis of
pathological conditions involved that would make light-based
hair removal the practice of medicine. Misdiagnosis is often
used as the argument that these services should be provided by
physicians. The most
worrisome missed diagnosis would be a malignancy.
There are no malignant hairs, but there are some rare
follicular tumors.
If the practice of medicine involves diagnosis
and pathology, and if it is true that pathology requiring
diagnosis is rarely encountered in those individuals seeking
light-based hair removal services, then the larger issue for
patient safety becomes the use of the machine and its potential
for patient harm.
The energy from the light-based devices penetrates into the
dermis and usually temporarily disables the hair follicle.
In the hands of inadequately trained personnel, the
machine becomes a greater risk factor, so proper training was
seen by the committee as the most significant element in
ensuring the public’s safety.
Just behind training in its impact on patient safety was
supervision, and supervision will always be an issue when these
services are provided in a physician’s practice.
BOARD
ACCEPTANCE OF COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the Committee’s recommendations
and further review by the Legislative Committee, the Board
adopts the following principles:
1. That the use of intense
pulsed light devices solely for the removal of hair does not
appear to be the practice of medicine.
2. That the use of light-based
devices that involve revision, destruction, incision or other
structural alteration of human tissue constitutes laser surgery
in accordance with
§ 54.1-2400.01 of the Code of
Virginia.
Given these two principles,
coupled with the laws and regulations governing physician
delegation and responsibility, the Board provides the following
guidance.
GUIDANCE
Physicians who perform or
delegate any aspect of light-based hair removal are fully
responsible for the provision of such services and should
maintain written policies and procedures to include:
1) Training and/or
certification for staff involved in hair removal services
2) Initial assessment of patient
3) Informed consent
4) Energy or fluence setting
5) Management of complications
6) Emergency preparedness and procedures
7) Procedure if treatment results in an adverse reaction
8) Post-treatment follow-up.
The written policies and procedures should
indicate the level of discretion granted to staff, as well as
criteria that necessitated physician involvement.
Adopted by the Board of
Medicine on February 21, 2008
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