THE INSTITUTE OF TRICHOLOGISTS
Membership
Entry to Institute membership is via a two-year distance learning programme, supported by seminars and clinical observation. The Institute’s training material has been comprehensively updated in recent years and embraces a whole range of scientific and medical topics. There are rigorous examinations at each stage of the training, and final year students have to pass a most searching examination comprising two written papers, a practical examination, and a viva (oral) examination. Institute tutors and examiners are experienced and highly demanding doctors, scientists and trichologists. The Institute is rightly proud of the standards it has set, which are indisputably the highest in the world.
Only qualified and registered members of The Institute of Trichologists are entitled to use the letters AIT, MIT or FIT after their names (designating, respectively, an Associate Member, Member or Fellow of the Institute).
The Institute of Trichologists is a non-profit organisation; it exists by student fees and membership subscriptions and with the support of companies in the wider hair care and pharmaceutical industries.
For the protection of patients, The Institute of Trichologists publishes a Code of Professional Practice and Ethics, by which all practising trichologists who are registered members of the Institute are expected to abide.
THE INSTITUTE OF TRICHOLOGISTS - Founded 1902