Category: Education

If you’re a medical professional registered outside the UK who wants to improve their aesthetic skills or think about changing career, you may wonder if you can enrol into a Level 7 aesthetics diploma.

Dr James Olding, Founding Director of Interface Aesthetics and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, explains how to get into aesthetics as a doctor working within the NHS.

By Mr James Olding, FRCS (OMFS), Founding Director, Interface Aesthetics

Interface Aesthetics is pleased to announce a new partnership with the British College of Aesthetic Medicine (BCAM).

With an estimated worth of over £3 billion in the UK alone, the growing aesthetics industry has the potential to offer healthcare professionals a lucrative and exciting career. That’s why many healthcare professionals are now considering a career in medical aesthetics.

A solid understanding of common and important complications is crucial for the safe and effective practice of non-surgical aesthetics.

Aesthetic medicine is an exciting and rapidly growing sector which offers healthcare professionals new and dynamic career opportunities.

The UK Government has confirmed its intention to introduce a licensing scheme for the non-surgical aesthetics sector in England.

As someone who is dually qualified – I graduated with Honours in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bristol in 2012 and Dentistry from King’s College London in 2021, and I now work as a Specialist Registrar in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Kings College Hospital – I understand the unique skills dentists possess and why they are ideally suited to work in facial aesthetics.

Working within your competency and why how you represent yourself matters in an unregulated landscape