Combining Teaching and Cosmetic Knowledge: The advanced Body Sculpting Institute

I come from a long line of teachers; teaching has been the primary profession in my family for the last three generations. So when I took the career path of a doctor, I kept my eyes open for how to integrate teaching with my own medical expertise. I finally found that opportunity with the Advanced Body Sculpting Institute .

I have a long track record of embracing breakthrough technologies, exploring new aesthetic devices and developing expertise on new techniques before many other doctors have the opportunity. So many times, I have been approached by cosmetic companies, which ask me to lecture on their behalf. And after participating as a teacher in several classes for new doctors, I realized there was a tangible need for improvement.

I remember when I came up with the idea of the advanced Body Sculpting Institute; I had just finished several lectures in Italy, Portugal, and the United States. I realized that there was both an opportunity and a need for doctors to have a place to go after residency, in order to learn how to us new technologies. Too many doctors are willing to assume that, after buying a machine, they will already have the necessary experience to use it. That would be like buying an airplane, and assuming you can pilot it!

About the Advanced Body Sculpting Institute

For that reason, I created the Advanced Body Sculpting Institute in September 2005. At first, the Body Sculpting Institute was such a new idea that we had to break through some barriers in order to establish it.

For example, most state medical boards don’t allow out-of-state doctors to practice. Since we wanted to bring cosmetic experts in from all over the world, you can see how difficult a problem that would be! We worked with the Colorado state medical board in order to make sure that we could bring in experts from outside the state to learn and to teach.

We also set up a national insurance policy dealing with malpractice issues for training purposes. This has never been done before, and logistical hurdles dogged us for a while. But we were undeterred: I strongly felt that doctors needed a space to learn new technologies, and I was unwilling to compromise on either safety or quality of teaching.

I want to talk a little more about the Institute in my next blog post; I really think education is incredibly important, so important that I can’t sum it up in just one blog post!!!

Wishing you good health,
Dr. John A. Millard