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- Acne
- Acne scarring
- Pigmentation
- Anti-ageing and rejuvenation
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For registered doctors · PGDAM, aesthetic gynaecology, injectables
Aesthetic medicine does not replace your practice. It sits alongside it.
Most doctors who come to us are not leaving medicine. They are adding something to it: a different kind of day, a different kind of patient, and a practice that grows on referral rather than on volume.
I2CAN's aesthetic medicine courses are open to registered medical practitioners. They cover injectables, machine-based treatments, aesthetic gynaecology and clinical protocol, taught through supervised hands-on practice on real patients. The flagship programme is PGDAM, the Post Graduate Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine, formerly written PGDCC.
3Weeks, classroom or online
4Centres, plus online
30Batch size, capped
FreeRe-attendance for life
Why this field
Ask yourself five questions
Not about medicine in the abstract. About the shape of your working week.
Do you want to finish your day at a predictable hour, most days?
Do you want a practice with no emergencies and no night calls?
Do you want successful, affluent and healthy people as your clients?
Do you want appointments that begin and end when they are supposed to?
And alongside all of that, do you want to increase your income substantially?
If those five are true, this is the field.
Aesthetic medicine is one of very few areas of clinical practice where all five can be true at the same time. The work is consultation-led, planned in advance, and delivered as courses of treatment rather than one-off visits, so a practice built carefully keeps compounding instead of starting again each morning.
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Why this industry, and why now
Nandan Gijare · Founder & Managing Director, I2CAN
Video slot, approx. one minute. Where demand is going, why the supply gap exists, and what has changed over ten years and 15,000 students.
The work itself
What you will actually be doing
Procedures on skin and hair that leave a person looking better than they did when they walked in. Not strictly clinical, not merely cosmetic, a combination of the two, which is what makes the judgement as important as the technique.
Facial contouring
- Shaping and definition
- Volume and balance
- Non-surgical approaches
Hair
- Hair fall and thinning
- Scalp conditions
- Restoration approaches
Cosmetic procedures
- Hair removal
- Tattoo removal
- Skin resurfacing
What any individual doctor may perform depends on their own qualification. Injectable work in particular is not open to every medical qualification. The eligibility guide sets out exactly which qualification permits which procedure, and why.
The long view
You are not enrolling in a course. You are joining a community.
The course is the entry point. What actually decides whether a practice works is everything that happens afterwards, and that is the part most institutes leave you to manage alone.
1
Enter
Learn it properly
Theory and hands-on in equal measure, on real patients, with written protocols you take away.
2
Launch
Set up without guessing
The right machines and products, help getting online, and a group to ask the early questions in.
3
Grow
Stay current
Annual membership for what is new, legal and compliance support, advanced masterclasses, the congress.
4
Lead
Become the reference
Alumni return to teach, to present cases, and to speak at the congress they once attended to learn from.
The part that lasts longest
When a difficult patient walks in three years from now, you will want somewhere to put the question. Our alumni have that: a group where the faculty and the doctors who trained before them answer, usually the same day. It costs nothing and it does not expire.
Come back any time
Re-attend the programme you paid for in any future batch, without limit and without further fee.
Free online sessions
Regular sessions on what is happening in the field, open to every alumnus whether or not you take membership.
The support group
Post a case, get answers from faculty and from doctors who have already seen it.
Annual membership
For those who want structured updating: six hands-on masterclasses a year on what is new.
Once a year the community meets in person at Aesthetix, our aesthetic medicine congress: twenty-plus sessions, live demonstrations and faculty from several countries, with the whole business side of practice covered alongside the clinical. See the congress ↗
What you can enrol in
Programmes, membership and masterclasses
Four kinds of thing, for four different points in a career. No fees are published here. A counsellor will talk you through what applies to you.
Start here
Entry programmes
Where almost every doctor begins. The diploma is the broad one; the certificates add a specific capability to a practice that already exists.
Post Graduate Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine
PGDAM · formerly PGDCCThe flagship. Takes a doctor with no aesthetic background to practice-ready across skin, hair and the full non-surgical range.
Indicative modulesSkin and hair anatomy · skin analysis and consultation · acne and acne scarring · chemical peels · pigmentation · anti-ageing and rejuvenation · energy-based devices · lasers · trichology · injectables · tattoo removal · medicated facials — full syllabus to be published
Programme details Certificate in Aesthetic Gynaecology
CAGNon-surgical intimate aesthetics, a distinct practice area with very little trained supply in India.
Indicative modulesAnatomy · post-pregnancy presentations · incontinence · dryness · rejuvenation approaches — full syllabus to be published
Programme details Certificate in Botox & Fillers
InjectablesFocused injectable training. Restricted by qualification, so check the eligibility guide before enrolling.
Indicative modulesFacial assessment · product knowledge · injection technique · complications and management — full syllabus to be published
Programme details Doctors also take Microblading & Micropigmentation and BB Glow Facial, both run from the cosmetology track with a shorter format for doctors.
After you qualify
Annual Membership
Six hands-on masterclasses a year, on what is new
This field changes quickly. Membership exists so that what you know keeps pace with it, not by watching recordings, but by doing the new procedures with your own hands, six times a year.
- Six hands-on masterclasses annually covering procedures and technologies that have entered practice since you trained
- Legal and compliance support, available as a separate membership
- Priority access to super-specialty masterclasses
How this differs from free re-attendance. Re-attending the aesthetic medicine diploma is free, for life, without limit. That never changes and it is not what membership is for. Membership covers what was not in your programme: the procedures and technologies that did not exist when you trained. As those become standard and enter the core syllabus, your free re-attendance covers them too. Free re-attendance applies to the diploma programmes; the short certificate courses are not included.
Going deeper
Short courses and super-specialty masterclasses
Short, focused programmes for a single capability, and separately, super-specialty masterclasses for high-end procedures, run outside the membership for those who want to specialise.
Short course list and super-specialty masterclass schedule, to be populated.
How it is taught
Two things have to be learned, and they are learned differently
Performing a procedure well is one skill. Deciding which procedure a particular patient should have is another, and it is the one that separates a competent practitioner from a busy one. We give both equal weight.
The judgement
Deciding the line of treatment
How to consult. How to assess a face, a scalp, a skin type. How to choose between approaches, sequence them, and set expectations a patient will actually be satisfied with. Taught through cases rather than lists, because judgement does not transfer from a slide.
The technique
Performing it well, and efficiently
The theory behind each procedure, then the procedure itself, on real patients, under supervision, until it is comfortable. Written protocols for every technique, so nothing rests on how good your notes were on the day.
The method follows what is known about how adults actually learn: understand the concept, see it applied to a real person, then do it yourself. Case studies run throughout rather than appearing at the end, so students are continually applying what they have just learned instead of accumulating it. That is what moves knowledge into long-term memory, and it is why confidence, not just competence, is there by the time the programme finishes.
Nothing about that is improvised. The sequence, the case load, the ratio of theory to practice and the point at which a student first touches a patient are all deliberate, and they are the same in every batch at every centre.
"The best hands-on I have seen anywhere."
Our students say it more often than they say anything else, across more than a thousand reviews of our Pune and Navi Mumbai centres, averaging 4.9.
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How we teach, and why we teach it this way
Nandan Gijare · Founder & Managing Director, I2CAN
Video slot. The methodology, the case-based approach, and what we do differently in the room.
What a batch actually looks like
See the full gallery
Photographs from recent batches at Pune and Navi Mumbai: students at the machine, patients being treated, and how many people are working on each case.
From doctors who trained here
In their own words
Mostly outside the metros, because that is where most of them are.
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Dr [Name]
Aesthetic physician · [City] · PGDAM, [Year]
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Aesthetic physician · [City] · PGDAM, [Year]
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Aesthetic physician · [City] · PGDAM, [Year]
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Common questions
Questions doctors ask us
Eligibility and scope
Registered doctors. Some individual programmes are further restricted, and injectable training in particular is not open to every medical qualification. The eligibility guide sets out exactly which qualification permits which programme, and the reasoning behind each restriction. Check your eligibility
Yes. You may attend and be certified. You must be registered with your medical council before you begin practising, which is a regulatory requirement rather than one of ours.
Almost always because they performed something outside what their own qualification permits. We teach each doctor only the procedures they are legally allowed to perform, and we state the boundary plainly rather than leaving it for you to discover afterwards.
The qualification itself
No. Our programmes are vocational qualifications, not university degrees, and we do not claim otherwise. The two sit under different regulatory tracks in India. It is worth understanding the distinction before comparing any institutes.
No training certificate from any institute exempts you from a country's own licensing requirements. Every country sets its own examinations and registration rules. If practising overseas is your intention, verify that country's requirements directly before you enrol anywhere.
That depends on where you qualified, not on this programme. Graduates of some countries may register directly; graduates of others must first clear the screening examination; and graduates of countries on neither list cannot practise in India at all. Confirm your own position with the National Medical Commission before enrolling.
I2CAN is certified under ISO 9001:2015 and accredited by the International Accreditation Organization and the International Accreditation Forum. Our aesthetic medicine and cosmetology diplomas at Pune and Navi Mumbai additionally carry a direct tie-up with the Beauty & Wellness Sector Skill Council, whose examination leads to the Aesthetic Skin Technician certificate.
Format and training
Three weeks in the classroom, Monday to Saturday. Or three weeks online followed by one mandatory week of hands-on practice in person. The shorter certificates run two to four days, classroom only.
It has been enough for ten years of batches, including the hands-on. But the honest answer is that it depends on you, which is exactly why you may re-attend the whole programme in any future batch, free, for as long as you practise. Some doctors come back once. A few come back three times.
Yes, across every procedure taught. Not models, not mannequins, not observation. If you want more repetitions than the batch allows, you may re-attend the hands-on sessions at no cost.
Rarely more than thirty. Hands-on time per student is the constraint, so batch size is capped rather than filled.
Yes. The same syllabus, the same protocols and the same case material at all four centres, with batches starting and finishing on the same dates. Where you train does not change what you learn.
A theory book, and, for the diploma, a protocol book setting out each procedure step by step, together with guidance on combination therapy. Classroom students receive hard copies; online students receive soft copies.
Yes. The online format with a separate hands-on week exists precisely so that practising doctors can fit it around existing commitments. You may also defer your admission by up to six months after booking, or move between batches, by telling your counsellor in advance.
After the programme
No. Many doctors begin by adding a treatment day to an existing practice, or by working in an established aesthetic clinic while they build toward their own. The final stage of the programme is shaped around whichever route you intend to take.
There is no single figure, and anyone who gives you one without asking questions is guessing. It depends on the city, the size of the setup, which treatments you intend to offer and the standard of machine you choose. Clinic setup is covered during the programme, and afterwards we help with choosing and sourcing machines and products, and with deciding which treatments to start with for a given budget.
Yes, through arrangements with more than thirty clinic chains, along with interview guidance and feedback if an interview does not go your way. It is assistance, not a guarantee, and we would rather say so.
You keep lifetime access to the support group, where faculty and doctors who trained before you answer clinical questions, usually the same day. There are free monthly sessions on what is new in the field, regular alumni case-study discussions, and a quarterly magazine. None of that is conditional on taking membership.
Yes, for the aesthetic medicine diploma, with no time limit and subject only to seat availability in the batch you want. Note that free re-attendance applies to the diploma programmes; the short certificate courses in aesthetic gynaecology and injectables are not included.
The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Tell us where you are in your career and what you are picturing. If a programme fits, we will say which one and why. If nothing fits yet, we will say that too. It happens, and it is better said now than after you have paid.
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