Finding Your Way Around
A quick-start guide to Medical Spa MD.
As a member, you're joining a community of clinicians and medical professionals practicing nonsurgical cosmetic medicine around the world, and you're about to enjoy a private networking environment that will give you a place to get support and answers for your own journey.
There's plenty to do, learn, and implement. This quick-start overview will give you a sense of what's here.
We're so glad you're onboard!
- The Medical Spa MD Team
To get started
- First: become a Member. It's free, and will give you access to all of the members only content, forums, downloads, special offers, group purchasing, and info. You'll also join our mailing list so you'll receive an occasional email.
- See what's available on the site: There are thousands of blog posts on all kinds of topics, classified as for buying and selling used cosmetic lasers and IPLs - and where you can sell your stuff, forums where you can talk to other clinicians or have a question answered, user groups for specific technologies, and a 'store' area (Products + Services) that range from free reports to clinical training.
- About this community: This site is an active community of clinicians practicing nonsurgical cosmetic medicine around the world. While the content is in English, our members are from more than 72 countries and 6 continents. Don't expect everyone to be exactly like you, and be open to learning from others who may be operating very differently.
What to look for in your inbox
New member? You'll get our weekly emails in your inbox. They're an important part of the community and the primary way that we deliver courses, trainings, guides, and offers. Please make sure that you're receiving your Member emails. If you don't receive them you'll either need to sign up again or resubscribe.
Note: Each email from us will start with [Medspa MD] so you can easily find them in your inbox.
Connect with a professional clinical network
Successful medical practices aren't built solo — They're created by talented, hard-working clinicians and teams coming together. That's why networking is more important than ever, regardless of your location or where you've started out.
- Join our LinkedIn group with 9,000+ members
- Swing by our technology, business, legal, and clinical forums to make new connections, reach out, ask and answer questions, and discover (and uncover) the tools that will get you closer to your goals.
- Submit your own guest post and get published.
Learn new skills (or train your team)
You have immediate access to a core library of education on a number of aspects of cosmetic medicine — patient marketing, clinical training, productivity, promotion and business.. the list goes on and on, and it's constantly growing.
- Snag some learning under Products + Services.
- Learn new clinical or business skills in our online school
- Get specific 'how to' training with via email mini-courses.
- Onboard and train your new hires.
Get the products and services you need
Savvy clinicians don't go it alone, and they don't reinvent the wheel. They use the wheels that are already working and have proven successful. Our Select Partners and advertisers treat our Members with white-glove customer service and support in addition to killer pricing, and our classifieds area is built around transparent pricing and ease of use.
- Buy or sell your next cosmetic laser, IPL or RF device in our classifieds section.
- Check out the special offers and deals from our Select Partners and advertisers.
Commenting
Medspa MD has built a great community. You don't have to be an expert to comment or ask a question. In fact, it's often questions that bring out the best from the experts. This site is monitored to prevent spam and flaming. We're very friendly to newcomers who spell-check.
Here are some do's and don'ts when commenting or posting questions:
- Make it very specific: Don't ask "what IPL should I buy?" Questions like that aren't worth the answers they generate and let everyone know that you haven't even read this post.
- Identify yourself in some way: Anonymous comments are not very credible. If you don't want to be completely identified, at least give some idea of your background or expertise.
- Do not leave comment spam: "Great post!" and a link to your site will get you flagged, deleted, reported and blocked. Please only leave real comments.
- Don't spam or flame others. Your comments will be deleted and your IP address blocked.
- Don't post in all-caps, run spell-check, and show a little respect for the people who you're asking to respond. You'll receive helpful advice from people who really know what they're doing. When your asking for someone to take the time to share information with you, it's the least you can do.
- Don't to anything that would conflict with our terms and conditions.
Recommended Reading
Here are some of the most read posts: Take a look at the entire blog archive organized by topic to find all of the posts in a specific category. If you have questions, you can read the forums to find out if someone has already answered it or post your own.
Some of the posts below are older, but they're still relevant.
- 5 Lessons Learned From 17 Years Building Cosmetic Practices
- What's wrong with medical spa franchises & medspa consultants?
- How to build a medical spa inside your existing practice.
- Physician oversight & scope of practice: What's legal in a medical spa.
- Medical Spa MD: Products & Services
- Dermacare Medical Spa Franchises Unite?
- Wall Street Journal Article on Medical Spa Franchises: Medspa boom is a bust for some.
- Nothing brings out anger like Thermage.
- Dermacare, Sona, American Laser Centers, & the rest.
- Sona Medspas: An unhappy franchise owner.
- LS, a Derm that's pissed at Medspa FP's & Ob's.
- Part 1: Why I bought a Sona medspa franchise
- Part 2: Sona's franchise representations & promises
- Part 3: The medical spa franchise pitch
- Part 4: Sona medspas legal structure & revenue share
- Part 5: Opening a Sona Laser Clinic.
- Part 6: Sona Medspas: Physician & Medical Oversight
Medical Spa MD: Most commented on posts
- LS, A Derm that's pissed at Medspa FP's & Ob's.
- Dermacare, Sona, American Laser Clinics & the rest.
- Dermacare Laser & Skin Care Clinics
- Dermacare Medical Spa Franchises Unite?
- American Laser Clinics Part 1: Armed guards & threats.
Most Read Author Posts
- Embezzlement & Employee Theft Can, & Probably Will, Happen To You
- How Does A Plastic Surgeon Incorporate Lasers Into A Surgical Practice?
- Laser Liposuction & Skin Tightening - Emperor's New Clothes?
- How To Use CT3 + V: An Equation For Creating Facial Beauty
- Where Does Creating The WOW Factor Begin?
- Every Day Maintenance Of Your Cosmetic Lasers & IPLs
Most Read Posts
- Pricing, Cognitive Dissonance, & How To Charge More
- The Very Best Bang-For-Your-Buck Cosmetic Marketing: Waiting Room Video
- The Medical Spa MD Physician Report Is Out! Download It Here
- American Laser Clinics Part 1: Armed Guards & Threats
- Dermacare Laser & Skin Care Clinics
- DeepFX Forum (Exclusively for Encore Ultrapulse Users)
- Cheap Restylane & Botox: Are you buying it from Canada?
- Cutera Xeo - Laser Genesis? Fraxel? Titan? Does it work?
Most Read Comment Threads
- Cosmetic IPL Laser Reviews & Comparisons
- IPL & Cosmetic Laser User Groups
- Fraxel, Thermage Or Fillers For Under Eye Wrikles?
- Medical Spa Employee Salary & Commissions
- Palomar Starlux 300 vs. Palomar Starlux 500 vs. Palomar Icon
- Cutera Titan vs. Solta Thermage
- Purchasing Botox & Restylane From Canada: Legal or not?
- Sciton Profactional Comparison With Fraxel, Palomar Fractal, Palomar Fractional IR