Botox Training in Charlotte (Mooresville, NC) — CME-Accredited Small Group Certification

Frequently Asked Questions: PracticalCME Botox and Dermal Filler Training in Charlotte / Mooresville

Clear answers on venue, format, faculty, curriculum, credit hours (including nursing pharmacology), scope of practice, and logistics. For the full positioning, see the Botox and Filler training hub page.

Where is the Charlotte training venue located?

The PracticalCME Charlotte clinical training site is located in Mooresville, North Carolina (Lake Norman area, approximately 30 miles north of downtown Charlotte), inside Dr. Andy Castillo and Dr. Rebecca Appleton Castillo’s shared practice. The venue is accessible from Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) and serves aesthetic clinicians across North Carolina, South Carolina, and the broader Carolinas and Southeast. The site is a dedicated clinical facility, not a hotel conference room.

What is the live hands-on day like at the Charlotte / Mooresville session?

The hands-on day runs 4.5 hours. The time is spent on a brief review and Q&A, patient assessment, treatment planning for each patient on the day’s schedule, and hands-on injection on live patients under direct MD supervision. Both Dr. Castillos co-teach the session, which gives attendees two licensed MDs in the room throughout the day. The accredited 7.25-hour online CME course is prerequisite and self-paced, so no part of the live Charlotte day is spent catching up on didactic content. Every attendee performs the full workflow: anesthetic, facial prep, injection, and aftercare.

Who teaches the Charlotte session?

Dr. Alissandro “Andy” Castillo, MD and Dr. Rebecca Appleton Castillo, MD, husband-and-wife co-directors of the PracticalCME Charlotte / Mooresville Clinical Training Site, personally lead the live hands-on together. Both are state-licensed physicians in North Carolina with extensive aesthetic injection experience. Having two MDs on-site is a differentiator relative to competitor training programs that run with a single instructor or non-physician assistants. The underlying Botox and Dermal Filler curriculum is authored and continuously revised by Dr. Gregory P. Zengo, MD, FACOG, Founder and Medical Director of PracticalCME, who was trained in botulinum toxin by Dr. Jean Carruthers in 2001.

How many hours of CME credit is the Charlotte Botox and Filler training?

11.75 total contact hours: 7.25 ACCME-accredited online CME hours (including 4.7 nursing pharmacology hours) plus a separate 4.5-hour Hands-On Certificate of Completion. Credit totals are identical at every PracticalCME city.

Does the Charlotte course count for nursing pharmacology hours?

Yes. 4.7 pharmacology hours are included within the 7.25 online CME hours for both AANP (nurse practitioners) and ANCC (registered nurses). This is only possible because PracticalCME holds direct ACCME accreditation through the Global Education Group joint provider arrangement. Programs that route accreditation through AAFP, dental boards, or state society equivalence credit cannot award pharmacology hours regardless of how the certificate is worded. Nurses who have struggled to meet pharmacology hours each licensing cycle find this a significant benefit. Rolled out in 2026 after direct attendee feedback.

What is covered in the Botox curriculum at the Charlotte session?

FDA-labeled indications: glabella, lateral canthal lines (crow’s feet), forehead, and platysma bands (Botox FDA-approved 2024). Dosing and handling for all 6 FDA-approved neurotoxin brands. Off-label indications well-supported in the peer-reviewed literature and included in both the online didactic and the live hands-on: masseter and lower face (DAO, mentalis), small-dose frontalis for brow balance, bunny lines, gummy smile, and low-volume reconstitution technique. Not taught by design: Trap Tox at supraphysiologic doses, Barbie Botox, and any technique whose evidence base is a viral video rather than a peer-reviewed study.

What is covered in the dermal filler curriculum?

Hands-on filler technique in Charlotte: lips (volume and shape), perioral lines, nasolabial folds, and marionette lines. Technique and safety instruction: needle versus cannula selection, vascular anatomy and danger zones, product selection by indication, hyaluronidase reversal, vascular occlusion protocol, and the step-by-step vision-loss response algorithm. Not taught by design: mid-face filler, chin and jaw projection with HA, and high-volume cheek sculpting. The decision to keep mid-face out of the curriculum is deliberate and based on 24 years of injection experience.

How much toxin and filler is included for hands-on practice?

Every Charlotte attendee receives a guaranteed 20 units of BTX-A and 1cc of hyaluronic acid filler for live injection practice at no additional charge. The product is included in tuition and dispensed on the day of the hands-on.

Can I bring my own patients for additional hands-on?

Yes. There is no cap on hands-on if you bring your own suitable patients and purchase additional toxin and filler at below-retail rates on the day of the Charlotte / Mooresville training. Many providers bring one or two additional patients to extend their supervised experience before performing procedures in their own practice.

How are the hands-on patients recruited and consented?

Every hands-on patient at the Charlotte training is consented by one of the Dr. Castillos as a PracticalCME patient. Attendees never pay the patient, never collect money from the patient, never sign a treatment agreement with the patient, and never carry individual liability for the hands-on treatment. The faculty MD is the treating physician on the record. PracticalCME does not use paid community models who charge the training company.

Which licensed providers can register for the Charlotte training?

Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physicians (MD and DO), and Dentists (DDS/DMD) where their legal scope of practice allows aesthetic injection. Because the Charlotte metro area spans two states (North Carolina and South Carolina), attendees should confirm scope for the state where they plan to practice. The curriculum covers North Carolina and South Carolina delegation and supervising physician requirements in detail. Completing a training course does not alter the legal scope of practice for the attendee’s licensure.

Can an RN or NP from another state attend the Charlotte training on a compact license?

North Carolina and South Carolina are both RN compact license states, so RNs from any compact state can practice as RNs in both. However, an NP license is state-specific and does not travel with the compact. An NP from outside North Carolina attending the Charlotte training should confirm their own home-state licensure for aesthetic injection before offering the procedure in their own practice. Both Dr. Castillos are licensed in North Carolina and serve as the treating physicians on the record for all hands-on patients.

Is a payment plan available for the Charlotte training?

Yes. Affirm financing is available at checkout, with rates as low as 0% APR for 6 months for qualified applicants. Longer repayment terms are available at standard APR. Tuition and the Affirm option are published on the product page. There is no sales call to find out the price and no scholarship application process. The accredited online course is accessible immediately upon purchase, and the Charlotte hands-on component can be scheduled at any available date within the two-year access window.

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.