Eight case-study modules, plus a free bonus module · ten quizzes · about six hours · Rs. 15,000
Aesthetic Practice: Consent, Photographs and Patient Privacy
The consent, the photographs and the messages: the documents read first when an aesthetic treatment is questioned.
In short
Who it is for. Dermatologists, cosmetic and plastic surgeons, hair transplant clinics, aesthetic physicians, and the doctors who own or run skin, hair and aesthetic clinics in India.
What you learn. Consent from the first conversation to the complaint; photographs from capture to publication; patient data now and from 13 May 2027; and building it into the clinic.
What you get. Eight case-study modules, demonstration templates printed in full, ten scored quizzes, a final exercise and a certificate. One payment, twelve months of access.
Already took Aesthetic and Dermatology Practice? That course explains the rules across your whole practice. This one goes deep on consent, photographs and data, and gives you the working documents.
Module one and its quiz open without payment and without a card. The course is general education, not advice on any patient, clinic or live matter.
When an aesthetic treatment is questioned, the documents read first are the consent, the photographs and the messages. This course follows one fictional clinic, Gulmohar, as it gets them wrong and puts them right: what Indian law asks of a consent, and what careful clinics abroad add; the consultation and the patient you should not treat yet; a consent set procedure by procedure; photographs from capture to storage; publishing a face after the NMC Guidelines of 6 October 2026 (whose force beside the 2002 Regulations is not yet settled); patient data under the SPDI Rules now and the DPDP Act from 13 May 2027; what to do when a consent is tested; and building it all into the clinic. Each module ends with demonstration templates for learning, printed in full, to adapt in your own clinic. It is general education, not advice on any patient, clinic or live matter. The clinical lists in it are starting lists for you to adapt with your own clinical judgment.
Prepared and taught by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, Medicolegal Consultant and Founder, DoctorLawyer™, in consultation with a High Court advocate.
8case-study modules
10scored quizzes
45applied questions
90demonstration templates
6hours in total
12months of access
Module one freePrintable handout with every moduleCertificate of completion, see a sample
Rs. 15,000
One payment, no subscription and no renewal. Twelve months of access to all eight modules, every quiz, the final quiz and the certificate. A change of price never applies to a course you have already paid for.
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What you will be able to do when you have finished
Not what you will have heard about. What you will be able to do, on a Tuesday, with the thing in your hand.
Say, in the Supreme Court’s own words, what makes a consent valid in India, who may give the information and who must sign, and what careful clinics abroad add.
Run a consultation that leaves a record: why she wants it, what she expects, what she takes, what she can afford, and when to decline or wait.
Build a consent set for any elective procedure: an information sheet she keeps, a form she signs, and a record of the conversation, with reconfirmation on the day.
Take, store and own clinical photographs without leaking them, with a separate consent for each use.
Clean up a clinic’s channels for the NMC Guidelines of 6 October 2026, and answer an influencer, a bad review and a request to delete.
Know which data rules bind your clinic today and which begin on 13 May 2027, and map, protect and disclose what you hold.
Answer a records request, a complaint or a lawyer’s letter in the right order, and never alter a record.
Give every person in the clinic a written part, and score your own clinic with a 20-point privacy audit.
How much of your time this takes
About six hours in total, and none of it has to be done in one sitting. The course remembers where you are, on whichever device you open it on, one device at a time.
Eight case studies, 25,029 words
about 139 minutes
90 demonstration templates, 14,515 words, to read now and adapt later
about 73 minutes
Ten quizzes, 45 questions, with the authority explained on every answer
about 75 minutes
The short cases, the final exercise and the authorities
about 53 minutes
The free bonus module: patients from abroad
about 23 minutes
Everything, 56,196 words
about 6 hours 3 minutes
Each module follows one fictional clinic through a decision, and the reading paths at the top of each module show which chapters matter most for your kind of practice.
How the course runsStart to certificate
1
Eight case-study modules. About seventeen minutes each, read in any order, at your own pace, on a phone or a laptop. Every legal proposition carries the case, section or regulation it rests on, so you can check it. Each module also leaves you a document you can use: a consent standard card, an international benchmark sheet, a model consent conversation, a consent conversation note, a counsellor do and do not card, a relative in the room checklist and a ten-file consent audit; later modules add consultation records, consent forms for twelve procedures, photograph rules, a pre-publication check and the 21-item Privacy Toolkit.
2
A scored quiz at the end of each module. Five applied questions, not definitions: a situation, and what you would do. Four out of five to pass. Retake it as often as you like, and the authority is explained on every answer, right and wrong. Your best score is the one kept.
3
A final quiz across all eight modules. It opens once you have passed all eight module quizzes. Sixteen questions, two drawn from each module, twelve out of sixteen to pass. Your sixteen are not the same as anybody else’s. Retake it as often as you need.
4
A certificate of completion, issued once the eight module quizzes and the final quiz are all passed. It is signed by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, and carries a number anyone you show it to can check on this site. It is a certificate of completion: not a diploma, not a certification, not recognised by any Medical Council, the National Medical Commission, any university or any Bar body, and it carries no continuing medical education credit.
The modules
01The standard you are held toBy the end you will be able to say, in the Supreme Court's own words, what makes a consent real and valid in India; who may give the information and who must sign; tell a consent that protects you from a form that only looks as if it does; and explain what careful clinics abroad add, and why that matters here even though it is not Indian law.Open first
02Before anyone signs: the consultation, screening and the patient you should not treat yetBy the end you will be able to run a consultation that produces a record of why the patient wants the procedure, what she expects, what she takes and what she can afford. You will know when to wait, when to refer and when to decline, and how to handle a minor, a patient who needs an interpreter, and a patient who first met you on video.17 min
03The consent document set, procedure by procedureBy the end you will be able to build a consent set for any elective aesthetic procedure: an information sheet she keeps, a consent form she signs, and a record of the conversation. You will be able to run it in two stages with a check on the day, and handle the moments that break consents: a change of operator, an extra area, sedation, a chaperone, a patient who says stop, a touch-up and a revision.17 min
04Photographs: taking, storing and owning themBy the end you will be able to run clinical photography that produces a usable record without leaking it: the right device, the right consent for each use, the right place to keep the images, and a clear answer when a staff member leaves, a vendor offers an AI tool, or a company asks for your "best results".17 min
05Publishing a face after 6 October 2026By the end you will be able to clean up a clinic's channels for the NMC Guidelines of 6 October 2026, answer an influencer, a celebrity patient, a hospital marketing team and a conference organiser, reply to a bad review without breaching confidence, and handle a patient who wants her images gone.17 min
06Patient data in an aesthetic clinic: the SPDI Rules now, the DPDP Act from 13 May 2027By the end you will know which data rules bind your clinic today and which begin on 13 May 2027; you will be able to map what you hold, tell patients about it, control who sees it, contract with vendors, respond in the first hour of a breach, and set how long you keep each kind of record.17 min
07When the consent is testedBy the end you will know what to do in the first day after a complication or complaint, how to answer a records request within 72 hours, why a record must never be altered, what a consumer commission and a State Medical Council will look at, which records have decided reported aesthetic cases, and where settlement stops being a clinical question.17 min
08Building it into the clinicBy the end you will be able to give every person in the clinic a written part in consent and privacy, keep documents in step across branches, brief and bind your staff, score your own clinic against the whole course, and close the gaps in 90 days.17 min
BPatients from abroad, and where to ask Bonus, freeBy the end you will be able to take a patient who lives abroad from first enquiry to safe follow-up at home: who may speak to her before she arrives, how consent works across a language gap and a short stay, what she takes home, what happens if a complication appears after she flies, and when to tell her (or yourself) to take advice in another country.Free bonus · 17 min
About the bonus module
The bonus module is included and costs nothing extra. A patient flies in from abroad for four days: the video call before she arrives, agency fees, consent across a language gap, the going-home pack, a complication after she flies, and where to ask about the law of her own country. It sits outside the eight: it is not in the final quiz and it is not needed for the certificate. It has its own scored quiz if you want one.
The small printEducation, not advice on your matter. Not clinical teaching. No outcome promised.
This is education, not advice on your matter. Nothing in the primer is advice about any particular patient, complaint, notice or case, and reading it does not create a relationship of adviser and client.
It is not clinical teaching. No module tells you how to treat anybody.
Nothing is promised as an outcome. No course prevents a complaint, and none of this guarantees how any forum will decide anything.
Where a matter needs a lawyer, we say so. Representation before any forum, and any formal legal opinion, is arranged separately with a High Court advocate and is charged separately.
The material is licensed to you alone. It may not be recorded, copied, shared, resold or circulated. Pages carry the name and email of the person they were issued to.
