A hair restoration training program aims to provide the student with all the necessary skills to perform the following tasks:

1. Counselling and advising patients on the risks and benefits of hair restoration surgery. Address the patient’s  specific general medical and psychological condition, including consideration of the patient’s age, sex, physical      examination, and family history of hair loss.
2. Identify, advise, and manage patients whose hair loss is not androgenetic in aetiology.
3. Design integrated medical and surgical treatment plans, including hairlines and crowns, for patients between the  ages of 22 and 65 who have Norwood-Hamilton patterns II through VII    and Ludwig patterns I, II, and III.
4. Set up a hair transplant operating room that will provide a safe environment for patients and staff, including, but not limited to, sterile techniques, proper management of bio hazardous  materials, and ergonometrically sound  work stations.
5. Harvest hair bearing donor scalp using techniques that minimize follicular damage and maximize donor scar cosmesis.
6. Prepare follicular unit grafts from donor tissue with minimal follicle transection. Demonstrate techniques to maximize graft survival between preparation and implantation.
7. Prepare appropriate sized recipient sites for hair grafts with proper attention to exit angle, hair direction, depth of  incision, and spacing, so as to attain a natural appearance and optimize     hair growth.
8. Place follicular unit grafts into appropriately sized recipient sites with minimal physiologic and physical follicular trauma.
9. Calculate and administer an appropriate dose of medication for sedation and local anaesthesia for hair  replacement surgery, including the use of tumescent solution and high dose epinephrine solution.
10. Recognize and demonstrate appropriate modifications to transplant design and treatment plan for patients who  have had prior scalp surgery and identify the appropriate time to integrate scalp extension or expansion into a patient’s treatment plan.
11. Demonstrate the proper use of basic life support mechanism.
12. Manage complications of hair restoration surgery, including syncope, postoperative infections, haemorrhage and hematomas, postoperative pain syndromes, wide donor scars, and suboptimal results.

As a wide variety of physician specialties train in hair restorations, adjustments in the program may need to done depending upon the requirements.