Tips for introducing medical aesthetics into your skin cancer practice

In this video, Skin Cancer & Aesthetic Medicine Doctor Dianne King provides her advice for GPs and Skin Cancer Doctors who want to introduce aesthetic medicine into their skin cancer practice.

Dr Dianne King is a GP with a special interest in medical aesthetics and skin cancer who built her own skin clinic in Hobart. In this video, she gives her advice for other primary care doctors who want to get started introducing medical aesthetics or cosmetic treatments into their practice.

"It can be intimidating when you start out offering aesthetic treatments," says Dr King. "And my advice would be to recruit from your own loyal patient base. If you're a long-practising skin cancer doctor, obviously you've got a lot of patients who have experienced quite significant sun damage in their life."

Dr King suggests that the next step is to make your patients aware of their skin health and level of UV damage. She says a Wood's light is a great tool for demonstrating to patients what level of UV damage is on their face. From there, patients will start thinking about what they can do to improve this damage as well as how to prevent further sun damage (and thereby prevent  further skin cancers, too).

She goes on to provide several pearls of advice pertinent to doctors. See all this and more in the full video below.

Watch the video with Dr Dianne King:

For further information on this topic, you may be interested to learn more about HealthCert's Professional Diploma program in Aesthetic Medicine - aesthetics training for GPs, online or with workshop.