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Botox Training San Diego with Dermal Filler Certification Hands-On Training

San Diego Botox Training and Filler Courses from PracticalCME

Since 2012, PracticalCME is the PREMIUM, Hands-On, MD-taught, Botox training and Botox certification in San Diego, CA, serving clinicians from La Jolla, Mission Valley, Downtown San Diego, Chula Vista, and North County.

Our small-group hands-on Botox and dermal filler course in San Diego includes guaranteed product, CME credits, and one-on-one MD supervision so you can return to your practice ready to inject.  We are the ONLY Botox and Filler Injection Training Provider in San Diego that gives you …

  • All-MD Faculty. You always know the Board-Certified MD who PracticalCME offers Botox Training, Dermal Filler Certification and other aesthetic training courses taught only by MD's in small group settings. is teaching you, and the exact location of the course before registration.  PracticalCME is the only provider that gives this full transparency.
  • Small Group Hands-On Classes. Our Live hands-on typically has 3-4 per class with a maximum of 6.   BTX/Filler tuition always includes 20u Botulinum Toxin and up to 1cc FDA-Approved Hyaluronic Acid Filler for hands-on. No other training provider tells you the product you are guaranteed to use for hands-on up front.  Additional hands-on practice can be added upon request.
  • Fully CME-Accredited Certification Through AAFP and accepted as AMA Cat.1, ANCC, AANP, AAPA. This means our credits are eligible for MD’s, RN’s, NP’s and PA’s.  Many other trainings are not accredited. 
  • BTX, Filler, and Regenerative Aesthetics (PRP, Microneedling, Exosomes) Certification on the same day. Nobody else gives you this flexibility in one hands-on training.
  • Learn Online at Time of Registration. This is the FAST TRACK™ Blended Online followed by Live Hands-On that we pioneered in 2012. Watch at your leisure and complete before the live date.  Arrive at hands-on Prepared… not Scared.  Register today and start learning tonight.
  • No Sponsors, Ever! No vendors, exhibitors, proprietary products, memberships, or multi-level training scams.  Just complete, unbiased, evidence-based training.
  • 🏆2026 TOP PICK status awarded by aesthetic-training.com for their highest rated training programs.
  • 0% Financing Available.  Apply in checkout through our partner Affirm.

📍🗓️🛒Course Location, Dates, and Registration

🗓️Saturday February 21, 2026

✅ Seats Available

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🗓️Saturday April 25, 2026

🔜 Coming Soon

🗺️ Courtyard San Diego Airport/Liberty Station
San Diego, CA

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Also, check out our Orange County Dates (below the map)

Botox Training and Botox Certification Courses taught in small groups hands-on. Botox Injection Training taught by physicians.

Hands-On Class Times

🕗8 am-12:30pm Botox & Filler
🕗8 am-10am Botox

📃SEE THE BOTOX & FILLER COURSE OUTLINE

🖥️ BOTOX & FILLER TRAINING COURSE VIDEO

🖥️ All Courses Feature Blended Online + Live FAST TRACK Training
💉20u BTX-A and 1cc Hyaluronic Acid Dermal Filler Included for Hands-On
          Additional Hands-On Can Be Performed Upon Request
👨‍⚕️One-On-One MD Supervised Hands-On (Limit 5 per Class)
🎗️11 CME Credits with 2 Years’ Online Access and Free Updates

Introduction to Aging, and Wrinkles

  • Summary of facial changes with aging
  • Psychology and Social aspects of facial aging
  • Review of non-invasive facial procedures
  • Facial Skin anatomy
  • Facial Muscle anatomy and physiology

Botox Training and Dermal Filler Training Course (Online at Your Own Pace)

  • What is it Botulinum Toxin?
  • History of Use
  • FDA approved indications for use
  • Review of the 6 different FDA-Approved Toxins and their distinguishing characteristics and dosing
    • Botox®
    • Dysport®
    • Xeomin®
    • Jeuveau®
    • Daxxify®
    • Letybo®
  • Off-Label uses
  • Reconstitution and Low Volume Reconstitution for Accuracy
  • Choosing the right syringe to use to enhance results and avoid waste
  • Patient consent
  • Contraindications
  • Virtually Painless Injection Techniques and Design.  All areas involve detailed analysis of muscle movement causing the wrinkles, NOT a protocol or injection map.
    • Central Brow
    • Forehead
    • Crow’s Feet
    • Lateral Brow Lift
    • Medial Brow Lift (“open eye” look)
  • Advanced Indications which require additional patient selection criteria (no “advanced” course needed Find out why this matters)
    • Platysma Bands (FDA indication 2025)
    • Bunny Lines
    • Upper Lip Wrinkles (Lip Flip)
    • Gummy Smile
    • DAO – Lip Corners
    • Chin Wrinkles
    • Masseters– Face Slimming
  • Touching Up
  • Complications (very rare with our approach)
  • Choosing the Right Treatment interval
  • The 3 Things You Can Do the First Visit to build a patient for life.
  • Follow-Up

Botox Training Hands-On Certification (San Diego Training Center LIVE Date)

  • LIVE HANDS-ON INJECTION opportunity for qualified licensed attendees (RN, NP, PA, MD, DO, DDS)
    • Course Review and Q&A with our Experienced MD Faculty
    • One-On-One Supervised hands-on with our faculty of a patient you provide.  20u BTX-A and all supplies are provided in your tuition.  Additional BTX-A hands-on can be performed upon request.

 

Hyaluronic Acid Dermal Filler Training Course (Online at Your Own Pace)

  • Types of Hyaluronic Acid Dermal Fillers
    • Juvederm, Restylane, Belotero, Defyne, Refyne, Vollure, Volbella, Voluma
  • FDA approved Indications
  • Contraindications
  • Patient consent
  • Depth of Injection Protocols (Superficial vs. Mid vs. Deep Dermis)
  • Dental Blocks and Local Anesthetics
  • Virtually Painless Injection Techniques and Dosage Protocols
    • Nasolabial Folds
    • Marionette Lines
    • Lip  “Reinflation” vs “Augmentation”
      • Sample Volumes and Depths for great results…
      • Vermillion Border (why it is no longer the default approach),
      • Wet-Dry Line,
      • Lip Pillar
      • Above Vermillion Border for fine wrinkles
      • Philtrum enhancement
    • Mouth corners
    • Smoker’s lines
    • 3-D Volume Enhancement
  • Touching Up and Adjusting Treatments for the Next Visit
  • Using Layered Treatments Successfully
  • Areas You MUST Avoid
  • Preventing Complications and Managing Complications with Hyaluronidase in the rare event they happen.
  • Using Skinvive® on label for cheek hydration, and off-label for crepy skin and fine lines around mouth and other sites where traditional filler is too thick.
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BONUS SECTIONS (BTX/Filler Online Course only)

  • First, Introduction to PRP (BTX/Filler Course only)
  • Second, Kybella Basic Training (BTX/Filler Course Online Content only)

 

Hyaluronic Acid Dermal Filler Hands-On Certification (San Diego Training Center LIVE Date)

  • LIVE HANDS-ON INJECTION opportunity for qualified licensed attendees (RN, NP, PA, MD, DO, DDS)
  • Course Review and Q&A with our Experienced MD Faculty
  • One-On-One Supervised hands-on with our faculty on a patient you provide.  Up to 1cc Hyaluronic Acid Filler and all supplies are included in your tuition.  Additional HA Filler Hands-On can be performed upon request.

Practice Building Tips and Tricks

  • Introducing a new service
  • Website SEO
  • Using Daily Deal sites to attract new patients
  • Pricing and Specials

Botox®, Skinvive®, and Kybella® are registered trademarks of Allergan, Inc.

Attend the Best Botulinum Toxin Certification Training , and Practice Confidently!

Small Group Hands-on Botox Injection Training, Botox Training, Filler Training, taught by a Physician in a course with CME accreditation.

You are only taught by MD’s who have built successful full-time aesthetic practices.  Learn from a MD’s who have hired and supervised aesthetic RN’s and NP’s, not traveling social media personalities with little experience building a successful real-world practice.

Importantly, PracticalCME teaches no “Advanced” level courses.  You learn everything that works and is demand from our one comprehensive BTX/Filler or PRP/Microneedling course.  No need to waste money on “advanced” or “Level 2” courses.

In addition, NP’s cannot be trained by RN’s and MD’s cannot be trained by NP’s or RN’s in an accredited CME environment.  We have had to re-train hundreds of students who wasted their time with unaccredited training in the past. 

With PracticalCME, you get Premium, Small-Group Botox Injection Training in San Diego that fully certifies you to have the skills to excel, and support for 2-Years at no extra charge. All of this for about the same price as the unaccredited, non-transparent, large group, nurse-taught training programs.

See how PracticalCME compares side-by-side to other training programs.

The instructor for your Online portion  is gregory-p-zengo-medical-director-practicalcme Gregory Zengo, MD who has injected over 1.3 million units of Botox and has done Dermal Filler Injections for 22 years. He has been a medical director of 3 different medspas and has hired and worked with numerous NP’s and RN’s in aesthetics outside of PracticalCME.  As the lead medical director of PracticalCME since 2008, he remains in charge of CME accreditation and the online curriculum in addition to live hands-on at 4 sites. Finally, Dr. Zengo also authored the world’s first CME-accredited courses on PRP and Microneedling in 2014, and PDO Threads in 2018.

  • Botox CME, Dermal Filler CME, Microneedling CME, and PRP CME on the Same Date.  
  • Blended Online + Live Botox and Filler CME Certification
  • Accredited Certification AAFP accreditation certification for PracticalCME Botox and Filler Training Courses by AAFP and AMA Category 1
  • Credits accepted by AANP , AAPA, and ANCC
  • THIS ACTIVITY HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND IS ACCEPTABLE FOR UP TO 23 ELECTIVE CREDITS (11 for BTX/Filler) BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS (AAFP).
  • AAFP Elective credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award.

 

First, Reserve your spot in one of our blended FAST TRACK Training Courses for the Date and Location of your Choice.

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Then Watch the Online training at your own pace.  Follow clickable links and interact with our faculty for any questions you have.  When finished, complete the online post-test.

DOWNLOAD/PRINT CME CERTIFICATE #1

 

AMA Category 1 Certification Credits for this Training Course

Finally, Attend the Live Hands-On Date and Complete Your Small-Group Hands-On Training in Botox and Dermal Fillers, and/or PRP with Microneedling.

RECEIVE HANDS-ON CME CERTIFICATE #2

San Diego Botox Hands-On Courses for Nurses, Physicians and Nurse Practitioners are taught by PracticalCME throughout the year. PracticalCME’s FAST TRACK ™ Online plus Live Blended learning allows participants to learn the material at home at your own pace prior to the live hands-on training date. Therefore, you will be fully confident in your knowledge, and earn your first of two AMA Category 1 level CME certificates before you even attend the live class date. Then, at the live date you will experience…

  • All MD Faculty with at least 10 years’ experience
  • Maximum of 4-6 Participants per live hands-on class
  • One-on-One Supervised Injection of your own Patient
  • Botox ® and Juvederm ® is supplied for each attendee to use at no additional cost.
  • Complete Post-Training Support (email contact, customizable consent forms)
  • Optional same-day Hands-On Platelet-Rich Plasma Training

Our blended dual-certification online + live training leads the industry. As a result, PracticalCME has earned an average of 4.8 stars in reviews from actual attendees since our first blended FAST TRACK Botox Training Course was held in 2014. In addition, we have paired up our Botox and Dermal Filler Training with Cosmetic Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) so that you can certify in both at the same live training date, because we know your time is valuable.

Why are San Diego PracticalCME Trainees More Successful?

Our Botox Training Course focuses on customizing the treatment plan to the patient’s own movement, and never follows a “cookbook” approach. For example, we teach a different dilution and precise muscle identification techniques so you can truly isolate the true cause of the patient’s wrinkles and effectively stop the clock on their aging process even on your first few patients, without having to see the patient back for touch-up treatments. The online course material drills these techniques home with additional treatment videos demonstrating the best technique prior to your live hands-on training class.

Our Dermal Filler Training Course curriculum focuses on using less product but at the proper depth to achieve the most natural filling of static folds and wrinkles of the face, in addition to the most natural lip reinflation techniques. Moreover, you will be impressed with the results when simply using the right technique and depth at your supervised hands-on treatment session. Their folds and wrinkles will disappear before your eyes while your patient remains comfortable.

As a result, PracticalCME has heard from many RN’s who took our training and taught their supervising physicians a few things upon return to the office.

Space is limited, So Register Today and Begin Learning Tonight

Each live date is limited to 4 participants before it is marked SOLD OUT. In fact, PracticalCME has only around 100 live training seats in Botox and Dermal Filler Training annually. Our award-winning, all-MD faculty take time away from their own successful practices to teach only a few times a year. This is why so many people travel to experience our small-group, in-depth blended online + live certification. Therefore, if the next San Diego area live training is sold out, scroll down and register now for the next open date. Then, you will receive your online content and can still begin learning and earning your first certification tonight.

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SINCE 2008, PRACTICALCME HAS BEEN THE LEADER IN SMALL-GROUP LIVE TRAINING COURSES AND ONLINE VIDEO COURSES IN POPULAR AESTHETIC AND WELLNESS SERVICES OFFERING CME CREDIT AND CERTIFICATION TO HUNDREDS OF DOCTORS, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, AND NURSES.

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