2025 brings exciting advancements in aesthetic training, and the American Academy of Cosmetic Medicine® (AACM™) is leading the way. Whether you’re a physician, nurse practitioner, PA, RN, or dentist, we now offer both beginner and comprehensive courses and a detailed self-paced Online Advanced Course, both updated for this year.
These programs deliver hands-on experience, advanced injection skills, and a path to Board‑level certification (FAACM®) for confident, practice-ready injectors.
Beginner Botox & Filler Injector Course – Foundation Certification (In‑Person)
If you’re new to injectables or looking for a structured way to begin your journey, AACM™ Beginner Injector Course offers a clinical foundation designed for real-world practice. Built for nurses, physicians, PAs, and dentists entering aesthetics, this one-day, in-person course focuses on core anatomy, safe technique, and injection fundamentals, with the confidence boost of direct supervision and hands-on training.
What You’ll Learn in the Beginner Course:
- Facial anatomy & vascular safety: Learn the essential zones and danger areas you must understand before injecting, including forehead, glabella, and crow’s feet.
- Botulinum toxin & filler science: Understand the differences between Botox® and Dysport® to draw up, mark zones, and inject using sterile techniques.
- Before & after photos: Captured and shared for your portfolio and patient education.
- Mentorship after training: Optional clinical shadowing days with Dr. Javad Sajan or Dr. Khezri, included with course enrollment.
- FAACM® board certification path: Complete the course, pass the included exam, and use FAACM® after your name.
Two‑Day Advanced In-Person Training
If you’re ready to move beyond fundamentals and master complex zones under direct supervision, the Comprehensive Course gives you two focused days of high‑impact practice on real models, complete with portfolio photos, coaching, and structured feedback from faculty who inject every week.
What you’ll do and learn
- Guaranteed hands‑on volume: Complete a minimum of 10 Botox areas and 8 filler areas across advanced facial zones such as masseters/TMJ, hyperhidrosis, platysmal bands (Nefertiti lift), jaw‑slimming, gummy smile, headache/migraine protocols, and more.
- Advanced filler work: Chin augmentation, jawline enhancement, temple injections, and advanced lip strategies, with when/why to choose cannula vs. needle and how to execute each safely.
- Included product for training: Approximately 60 units of Botox and two syringes of filler (Restylane® and/or Juvéderm®) are provided; you can purchase additional units/syringes at discounted training rates during the course.
- Clinical judgment & practice operations: Treating complex anatomy and higher‑risk patients, managing side effects and complications, setting expectations with difficult cases, and observing efficient clinic flow.
Online Advanced Injector Course (Self‑Paced)
You can learn from your practice or home. The Online Advanced Course includes an 8.5‑hour curriculum, that you can complete over 180 days, with mentorship touchpoints and a direct line to certification.
What’s inside
- 180 days of access; includes board‑certification eligibility
- Curriculum depth: Advanced Botox applications, migraines, hyperhidrosis, TMJ/bruxism, lip flip, Nefertiti lift, and more decision‑making frameworks you can implement immediately (per scope/regulations).
- Credential path: Complete the course and sit the exam to become board certified and use FAACM® after your name.
Benefits of Taking the 2025 Advanced Course
The AACM™ structure is built to get you clinic‑ready, fast, without sacrificing safety or credibility. Between guaranteed hands-on reps, modular online learning, and a clear exam pathway, you’ll finish with real skills, a stronger portfolio, and a recognized credential.
- Structured, repeatable skill‑building (Comprehensive): Guaranteed hands‑on volume, 10 Botox areas and 8 filler areas.. You’ll practice advanced zones with immediate coaching, reinforcing safe technique and decision‑making under supervision.
- Included product reduces barriers to practice: With 60 units of Botox and two syringes of filler provided for training, you focus on technique, not sourcing product.
- Portfolio‑ready outcomes that help you market ethically: You’ll leave with before/after photography from your models, plus two‑week follow‑up images, evidence of your work that supports patient education, informed consent visuals, and transparent marketing.
- Mentorship that extends beyond the weekend: Up to 5 shadow days after the Comprehensive course to keep you connected to expert guidance as you begin treating complex cases in your own clinic.
- Online flexibility without sacrificing depth: The 8.5‑hour syllabus spans both aesthetic and therapeutic applications and gives you 180 days to complete, so you can pace learning around patient schedules.
- Business & complication management built‑in: Beyond technique, you’ll study clinic flow, expectation setting, and complication management, so you can provide a safer, more efficient aesthetic service.
- Career visibility benefits: AACM™ outlines member perks like 24/7 access to instructors and potential press‑release support after certification, useful for announcing your credentials to patients.
Conclusion
Whether you’re just beginning your journey with injectables or ready to refine advanced techniques, the 2025 AACM™ Botox & Filler Courses offer a powerful path forward. With hands-on experience, expert mentorship, online flexibility, and a clear route to board certification (FAACM®), these updated programs are designed to elevate your skills, confidence, and career visibility.
Enroll today with AACM™ and bring Botox® into your practice with confidence.
Call us at (425) 864-3777, or Book Botox online course here .