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Clinical Skincare Science

Skin Science Fundamentals

The skin as an organ: structure, barrier, dermis and ageing, melanin and skin of colour, injury and healing, and the ingredients you will actually be asked about. Foundation Tier, taught across the full Fitzpatrick range.

  • ₵2,800
  • Beginner
  • Online
  • 6 weeks
  • Instalment plans available

About this course

Your entry point into professional aesthetics: anatomy, hygiene, consultation and client care. This programme blends expert-led theory with supervised, hands-on clinical practice at our East Legon campus, and is designed around the realities of practising aesthetics on richly melanated West African skin.

Curriculum

6 modules · supervised practical hours throughout

  • Why Understanding Skin Comes First
  • An Organ, Not a Wrapper — and Its Three Layers
  • What Skin Does
  • Thickness Varies — A Lot: Every Parameter Is a Regional Decision
  • Relaxed Skin Tension Lines: Scarring Is Partly Geometry
  • The Depth Map: The Most Important Diagram in the Course
  • Describing Lesions, and Erosion versus Ulcer
  • Myth Correction: There Is No Such Structure as a “Pore”
  • Chairside Reference: Depth, Regional Thickness and Lesion Terminology
  • Module 1 Knowledge Check: The Skin as an Organ

  • The Epidermis Is a Conveyor Belt
  • The Two Layers That Decide Your Outcomes
  • Bricks, Mortar — and Rivets
  • How Skin Sheds — and Why Flaky Skin Is Retained Skin
  • Clinical Bridge: What a Chemical Peel Actually Is
  • Barrier Repair That Actually Works
  • Ghana Context: Harmattan Is a Barrier Season
  • Module 2 Knowledge Check: The Barrier

  • What the Dermis Is Made Of
  • The Honest Ceiling: Elastin Cannot Be Rebuilt
  • Different Tools. One Mechanism.
  • Why Skin Ages: Intrinsic, Photoageing, and Three More Contributors
  • Photoageing Looks Different Across the Range
  • The Dermis Heals on Its Own Schedule: Why Nothing Works in Four Weeks
  • Module 3 Knowledge Check: The Dermis, and How Skin Ages

  • Why This Module Matters Most
  • The Fact That Changes Everything: The Same Number of Pigment Cells
  • Inflammation Causes Pigmentation — and Its Consequence
  • How Lightening Ingredients Work
  • Where the Pigment Sits: Epidermal versus Dermal
  • Fitzpatrick — and Its Limits, Plus the PIH-Risk Screen
  • The Slide That Prevents Burns: You Cannot See Redness
  • Energy Devices: Why Lasers Burn Pigmented Skin
  • What Your Clients May Not Tell You — and How to Ask Without Accusing
  • Assessment Card: Pigmented Skin — Risk Screen, Endpoints and Device Adjustments
  • Module 4 Knowledge Check: Melanin and Skin of Colour

  • How a Wound Heals: Four Phases, and What PRP Actually Is
  • The Rule That Governs Everything: Shallow Heals, Deep Scars
  • When Healing Goes Wrong: Hypertrophic Scars and Keloids
  • What Slows Healing Down
  • Healing-Risk and Red-Flag Screening Checklist
  • Acne in One Page — and Why the Pigment Is the Complaint
  • Things That Are Not Acne
  • The Concerns You Will Actually See
  • Red Flags: What Must Leave Your Clinic
  • Melanoma in Pigmented Skin: The One You Must Not Miss
  • Module 5 Knowledge Check: Injury, Healing and Clinic Presentations

  • Read This Before Any Ingredient: The Four Questions and the Delivery Problem
  • The Five-Question Claim Filter
  • The Ingredients That Earn Their Place
  • The Numbers Behind the Names: One-Page Clinic Reference
  • Sunscreen, Honestly
  • Retinoids: Best-Evidenced, but Not a Starter Pistol
  • Vitamin C and Niacinamide
  • Azelaic Acid: Acne, Pigment, Inflammation — and Pregnancy
  • Hydroquinone: Effective Does Not Mean Casual
  • Recognising Topical Steroid Damage
  • The Regulatory Line: Cosmetic Is Not the Same as Prescription
  • Ghana Food and Drugs Authority — Verify Before Every Cohort
  • Tranexamic Acid, Topical and Oral
  • Exfoliating Acids: AHA and BHA Do Different Jobs
  • Moisturiser, and Honest Language for Exosomes and Growth Factors
  • The Consultation Is a Clinical Act, Not a Sales Conversation
  • History: What You Must Ask, and Reading the Product Bag
  • Examination, Photography and Documentation
  • Is It Melasma? Four Conditions, Four Different Plans
  • Consultation Flow, and What Goes in the Consent
  • The Consultation Record and Consent Pack
  • Saying No, and Professional Language for Refusal
  • Why Complications Happen, and PIH in Five Steps
  • Burn, Blister, Infection — The First 72 Hours
  • First 72 Hours: Complication Response Card
  • Stacking, Priming and Prophylaxis
  • Design the Safer Protocol, and Five Case Drills
  • Student Question Bank — 150 Practice Questions
  • Module 6 Knowledge Check: Ingredients, Consultation & Complications
  • Final Examination

Entry requirements

No prior experience required. Ideal first step before our diplomas.

Upcoming intakes

The next intake for this course is being scheduled. Register your interest and admissions will contact you as soon as dates open.

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Your instructors

Ama Serwaa Nyarko

Lead Laser Educator

Senior laser and energy-based-device educator with over a decade on the clinic floor and in the classroom.

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