Allergan to offer training programs to medical cosmetics professionals

Ireland-based pharmaceutical giant Allergan is planning to increase investment in China and train more local medical cosmetic professionals, as the country's medical aesthetic industry booms and the sector is in urgent need of talents, said a senior executive.

"We are looking at training 5,800 medical cosmetic professionals, who have already got a medical license, in China this year," said Fan Jing, executive director of medical education at Allergan China.

Working with the Chinese Association of Plastics and Aesthetics, on June 13, Allergan China launched its first medical cosmetics course at its newly built innovation center in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, to give medical professionals systematic training in areas such as anatomical basis, aesthetic evaluation, consumer communication and photography.