Please telephone 949-248-1632 for available dates. We average 3 to 6 courses per year.

At present, $6,800 is the fee for attending a Liposuction 101 course. A $1,800 deposit is due with the application, and the balance of $5,000 is due 3 weeks before the course begins.

The course is designed as a seminar with the intention of facilitating an open and in-depth interchange of ideas, questions, suggestions, and constructive criticisms between the instructors and the students. There are four aspects to the course which include:

• Roundtable discussions of ideas and philosophy of ethical and safe liposuction surgery, including marketing, patient selection, and preoperative evaluations.
• Didactic lectures, illustrated by PowerPoint presentations, will cover complications, pharmacology, anatomy, as well as surgical technique for liposuction of all-important anatomic areas.
• In-the-operating-room demonstrations of techniques for tumescent local anesthesia, surgery, and post-operative care.
• Hands-on experience includes the techniques of infiltration of tumescent local and tumescent liposuction totally by local anesthesia.

The course is specifically intended to facilitate hands-on instruction.

Upon completing the Liposuction 101 students should have acquired a basic understanding of the surgical technique for liposuction totally by local anesthesia.

• Upon completing Liposuction 101, student-surgeons will not be experts but should be able to perform liposuction of limited volumes, with excellent results. Additional observation and instruction is desirable. With continued experience, using a gradual and cautious approach, surgeons are typically able to acquire an increasing degree of surgical expertise.
• The most important aspects of Liposuction 101 is the acquisition of a thorough knowledge of the safety aspects of liposuction, especially knowledge of how to avoid complications. Liposuction 101 teaches that:
  • The best surgical technique is the one that maximizes "patient safety"
  • The goal of maximizing "convenience for the surgeon" is only of secondary importance. Thus Liposuction 101 emphasizes doing liposuction totally by local anesthesia rather than by general anesthesia.

Certified specialists with strong surgical training and skills. The majority of participants are Dermatologists, ENT/Otolaryngologists, General Surgeons, Gynecologists, Opthalmologists and Plastic Surgeons.

Liposuction 101 is taught in the Capistrano Surgery Center, facility with 6,000 square feet (650 square meters) and accredited by the AAAHC (American Association for Ambulatory Health Care). There are two Operating Rooms (ORs) and dressing rooms with lockers for physicians.

Yes, fellows and residents of surgical appropriate training programs, who provide a letter of recommendation from their residency program director, are eligible for a 25% discount.

Yes. A certificate of completion is given to each physician (up to 27 hours of CME credit). A separate certificate is given to each nurse in attendance (California RN educational credits).