Dr. Nândia Yared Martins is an Aesthetic Biomedical Professional who traded 20 years of clinical analysis laboratory work to work in aesthetics. A graduate of the Federal University of Pará – UFPA, she says she graduated in 1995, just one year before Dr. Ana Carolina Puga (M.Sc.), and expresses her gratitude to her.
“First of all, I want to thank you for the opportunity. I feel honored to be here talking with you. I am a huge fan and I admire all your work and your path in biomedicine, as the mother of Aesthetic Biomedicine.”
“And I am very grateful for everything you have done, including the Nepuga institution, which is where I earned my qualification in Aesthetic Biomedicine,” says Dr. Nândia in thanks to Dr. Ana Carolina Puga.
The Beginning
Starting the Postgraduate Program in Aesthetic Biomedicine in 2017 at the Brasília – DF campus, Dr. Nândia says she began learning about aesthetics through social media livestreams and through the clinics where she was a client.
She says she had to stay away from the job market for a few years because of her children and family.
“The clinical analysis field, which is where I worked, demanded too much of me, so during that period I could no longer work the shifts, and I no longer felt excited about clinical analysis.”
Entering Aesthetic Biomedicine
After talking with some biomedicine colleagues, she decided to start looking for an institution to specialize.
“It was a complicated process, because some institutions were not in a position to issue the certificate. I saw cases of professionals who took the course and in the end were unable to get qualified because the institution was not accredited by Brazil's MEC (Ministry of Education). So Nepuga caught my attention because it met the requirements.”
Talking with the Aesthetic Biomedical Professional, Dr. Ana Carolina Puga recalls how she started the regulation of Aesthetic Biomedicine.
The Goal
“My purpose was not to let biomedicine die. Even though I was already in aesthetics in 2005 and 2006, I came across a reality in which demand was low, nobody wanted to study biomedicine, and that worried me a lot.”
“So I did not want to be the dinosaur of a profession, so I thought aesthetics could be a breath of fresh air for biomedicine, and what a breath of fresh air it was and still is.”
So Dr. Nândia witnessed that downturn in biomedicine, but kept working in clinical analysis, until she saw in aesthetics an opportunity to change her life.
“Even during the course, everything I was learning I was already putting into practice on friends and family. And when I graduated I already had a small list of clients, whom I still see on a home care basis to this day,” she says.
Biomedicine Enriched Aesthetics
In her testimony, the mother of Aesthetic Biomedicine highlights that knowledge in biochemistry, physiology, immunology and bacteriology is very important within aesthetics.
“Instead of testing on plates and tubes, you have all these processes happening inside your patient, so you need to understand all of that. With Aesthetic Biomedicine growing more and more, it is important to say that this whole movement was very good for biomedicine, but it also made aesthetics grow and enriched it,” says Dr. Ana Carolina Puga.
The Hobby
Working in the field for 3 years, Dr. Nândia says that for her aesthetics is almost a hobby.
We make money playing, because it is a pleasure, aesthetics is captivating. Studying, discovering the protocols, seeing the before and after, is fantastic, which is why I say it is playing, but it takes a lot of dedication.”
Today, as a self-employed professional, she talks about her routine as a mother and Aesthetic Biomedical Professional.
“I usually set aside some specific hours during the week to see patients, but it does not take up my whole day. I manage the house and the kids and for me that is fantastic, because I did not have to leave home to work. I am still at home and working.”
Finally finding herself in the profession, the Aesthetic Biomedical Professional makes a point of stressing:
“If today we have this field, this area with this recognition and this legal backing, it is thanks to Dr. Ana Carolina Puga's fight. That belief in this dream and going after it reached all of us,” concludes Dr. Nândia.
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