The Institute of Aesthetic Health Practitioners Australia (IAHPA) exists to help healthcare professionals build safe, confident, rewarding careers in cosmetic injectables — with honest guidance and accredited, hands-on training.
We started IAHPA because too many talented nurses, doctors and dentists were held back from aesthetics by confusing regulations and low-quality training. We set out to fix that — with clear, state-by-state guidance and a training programme grounded in real clinical practice.
Every course is delivered by experienced injectors, on live models, with all products and consumables provided. You leave not just certified, but genuinely confident.
The principles behind every course, guide and consultation.
Clinical governance and patient safety underpin everything we teach — no shortcuts, ever.
We tell you what the regulations actually say for your profession and state — not what sells a course.
Hands-on practice on live models with expert supervision, so you leave ready to treat with confidence.
No surprises — here's exactly what the four days look like, start to finish.
Five self-paced modules — facial anatomy, anti-wrinkle treatments, dermal fillers, complications management and business essentials — completed before your practical weekend.
Every technique is demonstrated live by your trainer before you practise it yourself — nothing is thrown at you cold.
Groups are capped at max 4–5 trainees per trainer, with around 20 live models across the weekend, fully supervised throughout.
Finish both days and receive your Certificate of Attainment, plus documentation to support your CPD record.
Practical weekends run regularly in five major cities, so hands-on training is never far away.
Our curriculum is built around the guidelines set by the bodies that actually regulate cosmetic injectables in Australia.
You don't practise on a mannequin and hope for the best. Every treatment on our practical weekends is carried out on a live cosmetic model, in a compliant clinical setting, under the direct supervision of an experienced injector.
Your trainer demonstrates each technique in full before you pick up a syringe — so you've seen it done properly, at the right depth, on real anatomy, before it's your turn.
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The theory is done online and at your own pace before the weekend — facial anatomy, anti-wrinkle treatments, dermal fillers, complications management and the business side. You arrive already knowing the why, so the two days are spent on the how.
Hands-on areas include lip and cheek filler, and anti-wrinkle treatment of the forehead, frown lines and crow's feet — with further areas demonstrated as models allow.
Plenty of providers will tell you you'll walk out an expert. We won't. Four days makes you a safe, confident beginner with a real foundation — it does not make you a master injector, and anyone promising otherwise is selling you something.
Most practitioners need six to twelve months of supervised practice before working independently or opening their own clinic. We'd rather tell you that now than have you find out with a patient in the chair.
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