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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

  • You Are Going to Be Asked to Injure People
  • The Course Map, and the Full Fitzpatrick Range
  • An Organ, Not a Wrapper — and Its Three Layers
  • What Skin Does: Seven Functions, Not Six
  • 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
  • Not Shelves. Stages. The Five Layers
  • 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
  • Alkaline Soap, the Microbiome, and Post-Procedural Folliculitis
  • 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

  • Module Overview: From Product Enthusiasm to Clinical Judgement
  • 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
  • The One to Remember: Six Systems, and Six Ideas
  • Module 6 Knowledge Check: Ingredients, Consultation & Complications
  • Final Examination

Entry requirements

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

Upcoming intakes

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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