Kumar Narendra, Parsa Ali Davod, Rahman Eqram
Division of Biosciences, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK.
Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Aesthet Surg J Open Forum. 2022 Apr 11;4:ojac023. doi: 10.1093/asjof/ojac023. eCollection 2022.
The desire for portraying a young and beautiful face and body is driving people to seek aesthetic treatment and accelerating the exponential growth of nonsurgical aesthetic (NSA) procedures. Unfortunately, despite impressive advances, NSA is yet to have a formal clinical education program.
This study aimed to identify the content and structure of an evidence-based postgraduate curriculum in NSA.
The Delphi questionnaire was developed after a comprehensive literature review and a focus group discussion. The questionnaire was emailed to 40 experts and 20 trainee physicians worldwide through the online survey platform and was asked to assign a rating on a 4-point Likert scale. A "1" represents a strong disagreement about integrating a topic in the NSA curriculum, and a "4" indicates a firm agreement. A pre-fixed percentage agreement of 80% and Cronbach's α = 0.90 was established to represent a consensus for the current study.
The response rate for the Delphi study was 90.0%, 88.8%, and 90% in the first, second, and third rounds, respectively. The experts and trainee physicians agreed with all the proposed topics (≥80%) and considered them critical for the proposed NSA curriculum. The mean score for each was ≥ 3, and Cronbach's α value for the Delphi was 0.94, confirming internal consistency and reliability.
The consensus demonstrates significant advances toward developing an evidence-based curriculum for a postgraduate program in NSA, which is essential to support the growing demand for trained aesthetic physicians.
人们对塑造年轻美丽的面容和身材的渴望促使他们寻求美容治疗，加速了非手术美容（NSA）程序的指数级增长。不幸的是，尽管取得了令人瞩目的进展，但NSA尚未有正式的临床教育项目。
本研究旨在确定NSA循证研究生课程的内容和结构。
在全面的文献综述和焦点小组讨论后制定了德尔菲问卷。通过在线调查平台将问卷发送给全球40名专家和20名实习医生，并要求他们在4点李克特量表上进行评分。“1”表示强烈不同意将某个主题纳入NSA课程，“4”表示坚决同意。本研究设定了80%的预先确定的百分比一致性和克朗巴哈α系数=0.90来代表达成共识。
德尔菲研究的第一轮、第二轮和第三轮回复率分别为90.0%、88.8%和90%。专家和实习医生同意所有提出的主题（≥80%），并认为它们对拟议的NSA课程至关重要。每个主题的平均得分≥3，德尔菲的克朗巴哈α系数值为0.94，证实了内部一致性和可靠性。
这一共识表明在为NSA研究生项目开发循证课程方面取得了重大进展，这对于满足对训练有素的美容医生日益增长的需求至关重要。
