Medical Esthetics
 

Calendar of Articles for 2010

INTELLECTUAL IMPLICATIONS FOR GREATER SAFETY OF AESTHETIC CARE PRACTICES

Professional Development requires a strong involvement in different subjects of study.  Some topics can be independently approached while others must be in combination with a group of learners – they are as follows:

Case Study Methods – a great learning approach that consists of a complete and detailed analysis of a treatment case an aesthetic provider might be faced with. It is a great way to learn by participating in this form of extensive role playing. You would place yourself in the position to be the definitive decision maker with the idea that you would dissect a complex therapeutic problem you would have to confront – evaluating both “the cause and effect” of the therapeutic treatment and come to the safest conclusion for potential resolution of the issue.

Brainstorming Strategies – Here you would be offered an opportunity to lead a team of your peers to break through perceptions about standard, treatment applications for the purpose of sharpening your awareness and capturing your interest in any number of routine services.  Treatments regularly performed on a day-to-day basis are likely to eventually become mundane experiences and, thereby, will naturally invite a greater likelihood of high-risk treatment behaviors due to monotony which can result in serious accidents. 

Expert Consultation – a way to immediately address potential concerns that might cause problems later on if overlooked to begin with via a mental checklist that is transformed into a physical record through the clinical documentation process.

Coaching – is a way to enhance a provider’s competencies in a specific skill by providing a platform for rationale that stems from thought behaviors that incorporate what one denotes from observation, reflection of what one sees, and what potential actions that can be taken to reverse errors.

Communities of Practice – is a means to improve professional practice by engaging in several shared experiences with a group of highly conscientious providers that result in the analysis of various therapeutic mishaps and learning with these other professionals by discovering what each did and did not do to overt the treatment tragedies they experienced. This is a terrific way to solve practical dilemmas related to treatment practice interventions through participation with other professionals in systematically examining methods of good and poor practice techniques.

One-on-One Independent Mentoring – from senior aesthetic providers to promote safer practices through reflective supervision by evaluating performance measures through the process of inquiry to justify rationale for specific therapeutic applications.

Technical Help Through Networking – Collaborative and interdisciplinary assistance of seasoned professionals as a means of helping one another as aesthetic practitioners by offering instantaneous answers about formulations and equipment whenever possible to prevent operational mishaps from occurring as well as other related errors from insufficient information pertaining to lack of support.

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