Miss Mayoni Gooneratne highlights the growing trend for newly-qualified medical practitioners entering aesthetics, examining whether more industry support and mentoring is needed to ensure proper patient care.
We know aesthetics is a highly dynamic and fast-paced specialty, driven by innovation, new science and an evergrowing patient demand. Once, it was the exclusive domain of a specialised few – primarily surgeons1 – but the last few decades have seen a wider variety of medical practitioners entering the field, including nurses, dentists, dermatologists and GPs to name but a few. Whilst I heartily believe that aesthetics should only be practised by medical practitioners, I have grown concerned about the training, support and expertise of many of the new entrants coming into the specialty. My own observations as a trainer and interaction with delegates at conferences indicate there is…
