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title: "Private Vs Group Clinical Training: The Difference | RMA"
description: "Private and group clinical training compared in plain terms: what a day looks like, who each one fits, staff, your own device, cost drivers and what to ask."
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# What is the difference between private and group clinical training?

- [Oscar Tellez](https://regenmedacademy.com/oscar-tellez/)
- October 19, 2026

![Private or group training: one green armchair by a lamp in front of a long row of empty folding chairs](https://regenmedacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/private-vs-group-clinical-training.webp)What is the difference between private and group clinical training? 2

*Written by [Oscar Tellez](https://regenmedacademy.com/oscar-tellez/), founder of Regen Med Academy. Oscar is not a clinician. This post is education for licensed providers and is not medical advice. Last updated October 19, 2026.*

The difference between private and group clinical training is who the day is built for. A group course puts many providers in one room, on one date, with one agenda for everybody. Private training puts one instructor with you, or with you and your staff, and the day is planned around your own cases. Both formats can teach you something real, and the right pick depends on what you need to be able to do when you get home.

## What is group clinical training, in plain terms?

Group clinical training is a course that many providers sign up for at the same time. The organizer picks the date, the city and the agenda, and everyone who registers gets the same day.

Group courses come in many sizes, from a dozen people around one instructor to a full hotel ballroom. The size changes what you get to do, so the word “group” alone does not tell you much.

What do all of these courses have in common? The plan is written before anyone knows who is coming. A family doctor, a pain specialist and a med spa owner may sit in the same row and hear the same talk. That is not a flaw, because it is how one course reaches a lot of people at once.

## What is private medical training, in plain terms?

Private medical training is a session set up for one provider or one practice. There is no open sign-up and no other practice shares your session, because the instructor is there only for you, or for you and your staff.

Regen Med Academy sells private training only, and you should know that before you read the rest of this post.

Our private training comes in two shapes. In the first, you come to an instructor’s location and train inside that clinician’s own working practice. In the second, the instructor comes to you, and you train in your own rooms with your own staff.

In both shapes, one instructor runs the whole session, and the curriculum is built around your own cases and your specialty. You can see how the second shape is set up on our page about [private training inside your own practice](https://regenmedacademy.com/regenerative-medicine-on-site-vip-hands-on-training-with-expert-instructor/).

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## What does a day look like in a group course?

Every organizer runs the day a little differently, so take this as a common pattern and not as a rule. The morning is usually lectures, where a speaker walks through the science, the steps and the rules with slides on a screen.

After that there is often a demonstration, where an instructor does the procedure at the front of the room while everyone else watches. In some courses the group then splits up, and people take turns at a station with a model, a practice pad or a patient.

How much each person gets to do depends on the numbers. Here is how I describe the largest rooms to providers: “They fill up the room, twenty to fifty doctors. Those doctors are not able to touch or feel the patient. They just see and observe how it’s done.”

That line is about the biggest rooms, and it would not be fair to say it about every group course. Some keep the numbers low and give each person a turn with an instructor close by, which is why you ask for the numbers before you pay.

A group day also runs on the clock, so if one section runs long, the next one gets shorter.

## What does a day look like in private training?

A private day starts before the day itself. With us, the theory is online and the hands-on day is in person. The lessons, videos, protocols and consent templates arrive before you travel, so the day is not a lecture. We also help with patient selection before the session.

We describe the training in four stages: learn the science, assess and select, perform, and continue. The second stage is about which patients are a fit for the procedure and which are not, and the third stage is the practical part of the day.

That part is hands-on with a consenting patient, under supervision, and every licensed person in the room performs, within their own scope. We will not promise that you will do a certain procedure a certain number of times, because the day is built around the patients who are in the room.

The pace is the other big difference. If you want to go back over the blood draw, or stop and ask why the instructor chose that needle, the day can slow down for it. Nobody else is waiting for a turn.

## When is a group course the right pick?

A group course is the right pick more often than you might expect to hear from a company that does not sell one. So when does it fit?

It fits when you are still deciding. Let’s say you are not sure yet that this field belongs in your practice at all. A lower-cost seat in a group course is a reasonable way to hear the science and watch the procedure before you spend more.

It fits when you want a wide view, because a course with several speakers can show you how different clinicians think about the same problem. It also fits when you want to meet people. The other providers in the room are part of what you pay for, and a private session cannot give you that.

And it fits when you need credit hours. Some group courses carry continuing medical education credit, which most people call CME. For physicians, the name to know is the ACCME, which says it “[accredits organizations that provide continuing medical education for physicians](https://accme.org/about-accreditation/).” We do not offer CME, credit hours or accreditation of any kind, so if you need credits, a group course from an accredited organization is the place to get them.

## Who does private training fit?

Private training fits the provider who already knows what they want to add and now needs to be able to do it. The question has moved from “should I?” to “how do I do this on my own patients?”

It fits providers who have already been through a course. Providers tell us they were trained somewhere else and still do not feel confident, and they tell us a weekend was not enough and there was nobody to call afterward.

It fits providers who cannot leave the practice for days. When the instructor comes to you, nobody on your team has to travel, and you train in the rooms you already use.

It also fits providers who get left out. Nurse practitioners, PAs and naturopathic doctors tell us that many programs do not take them, and we train anyone who is legally able to provide the treatment.

That comes with a limit, and we say it out loud. What you may perform is set by your own state license and board. A Certificate of Completion does not extend it.

Private training does not fit everyone. If you want a wide survey of the field from many speakers, or you need credits this year, a private session is the wrong tool for that job.

## What changes when your staff train with you?

This part is easy to leave for last. A procedure is more than the injection, because there is also the phone call, the consent, the room setup, the blood draw, the spin, the cleanup and the follow-up call.

In a group course, a seat is usually sold per person, so a practice often sends only the provider. That provider then goes home and teaches the rest of the team from memory and a slide deck.

In private training, you can train alone or bring your team. When the instructor comes to your practice, the team is already there, along with your tools and your rooms. Everyone hears it from the same instructor on the same day.

So who does what? Licensed staff perform within their own scope. Staff without a license do not inject, but they can learn the steps around the procedure, like setting up the room and making the follow-up calls.

Scope is a state question, and the answer is different for each license. For nurse practitioners alone, the AANP sorts the states into [full practice, reduced practice and restricted practice](https://www.aanp.org/advocacy/state/state-practice-environment). So before the day, check what each person on your team may do with the board that licenses them. Our [rules by state page](https://regenmedacademy.com/regenerative-medicine-laws-by-state/) is a starting point, and it is not legal advice.

## Can I train on my own device?

In a group course, the organizer has to choose the equipment for the whole room. Many courses use one system for everyone, and some are paid for by the company that makes that system. That can be a fine way to learn a system, as long as you know it before you sign up.

In private training, you can bring your own, and our position on that is short. We are not tied to any vendor. Bring the system you already own. We work with several suppliers, and we take no commission.

Why does the device matter so much? The device’s own paperwork says what it is for. Take PRP, which is short for platelet-rich plasma: FDA lists PRP systems as a “[platelet and plasma separator for bone graft handling](https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPCD/classification.cfm?ID=ORG).”

In plain words, the devices that prepare PRP are FDA cleared for use with bone graft material. Injecting PRP into joints, tendons, ligaments, skin or scalp is an off-label use, and a good course of either kind says that out loud.

Can a provider use a cleared device off-label? A federal statute, [21 U.S.C. 396](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/396), speaks to that. It says nothing in that chapter of the law is to be read to “limit or interfere with the authority of a health care practitioner to prescribe or administer any legally marketed device to a patient for any condition or disease within a legitimate health care practitioner-patient relationship.”

The same section leaves in place “any existing prohibition on the promotion of unapproved uses of legally marketed devices.” In plain words, a licensed provider may use a legally marketed device off-label inside a real provider-patient relationship, and what the practice may say about that use in its marketing is a separate question.

So in either format, read the 510(k) clearance for the exact system you own, which is FDA’s record of what that device is cleared for. Then ask to train on that system, so the steps you practice are the steps you repeat at home.

## Whose patients will I work with?

In a group course, the organizer arranges the patients, if there are any. They may be volunteers, models or patients of the host practice, so ask who they are, how they were chosen and how they gave consent.

In private training at an instructor’s location, you train inside that clinician’s working practice, with their staff, their equipment and consenting patients they have selected. In your own practice, the patients are your own, and we help you select them.

Why would your own patients matter? They are the people you will keep seeing after the instructor goes home, and you already know their history.

Two limits apply in either format. The first is consent, because the patient has to give it and the form is yours to get right. We give you sample consent forms, but they are teaching templates, and your own attorney should review any form before you use it.

The second is coverage. You are responsible for your own coverage. Talk to us and we will help you work out what to ask your carrier. Then ask your carrier, and get the answer in writing.

## What drives the cost in each format?

A group course splits its cost across many seats, and that is the main reason a seat costs less. What moves the price of a seat? The venue does, and so do the number of speakers, the patients and materials, any credit that is offered, and any sponsor that pays for part of the day.

Then there is the cost that is not on the invoice. You travel, you stay in a hotel, and your practice sees no patients while you are gone.

Private training puts one instructor’s whole time on one practice, so the session costs more. Our prices are public. Private training at an instructor’s location starts at $5,000. Private training inside your own practice starts at $10,000, with the instructor’s travel and lodging inside the quote.

Both are starting figures, and every engagement is quoted. The quote depends on the discipline, the instructor, how many people are in the room, and how much of the curriculum is built for you.

So how do you compare the two? Do not set one seat against one quote and stop there. Count who gets trained, what they get to do with their own hands, the days your practice is closed, and who you can call later.

## What should I ask before I book either kind?

Some questions belong to both formats, so put these to any course on your list, including ours.

- How many people share one instructor, and how many of them performed the procedure last time?
- Is a company paying for part of the course, and is a product attached to it?
- Which system will I train on, and may I bring my own?
- Who are the patients, and how did they give consent?
- What do I take home in writing, and who can I call a month later?
- If the course is in another state, what does that state’s board say about my license there?

A group course needs three more questions.

- What is the agenda, hour by hour, and how much of it is lecture?
- What happens to my turn if the day runs long?
- If it carries credit, which accredited organization stands behind it?

A private program needs its own three.

- Who exactly is my instructor, and does that person run the whole session?
- What is built for my cases, and what is the same for everyone?
- What is inside the quote, and what is left for me to pay?

For the longer checklist on choosing a program, see our post on [which PRP training program is right for your practice](https://regenmedacademy.com/which-prp-training-program-is-right-for-my-practice/).

## Private vs group training: how do I decide?

Let’s walk through it with a made-up practice. Say you run a family practice with two providers and a medical assistant, and none of you has done a PRP injection.

Start with what you need at the end. Do you need to understand the field, or do you need to be ready to do the procedure on a patient? If you are still working out whether to add it, a group course is a sensible first step. If you have decided, you need supervised time with your own hands.

Next, count who needs to learn. If it is only you, either format can fit. If both providers and the assistant need the same steps, a private day in your own practice puts all of you in the room at once.

Then look at your calendar and your license renewal. Can you close for several days and travel, and do you need credits this year? If you need credits, that points to a group course that carries them.

Some providers will use both, with a group course first for the wide view and private training second for the hands.

Providers ask us, “Can I really learn this in a day or a weekend?” The answer is no in either format, and we say so, because a day or a weekend does not make a specialist.

What a good course gives you is enough supervised contact to begin, and people to call afterward. Here is what I tell providers: “Your journey is only getting started. We have the support where you can call us.”

## Frequently asked questions

### Does Regen Med Academy offer group courses?

No. Private training is the only format we offer, so we have no open classes, no class calendar and no days where you only observe. Dates are set on demand, around your schedule and the instructor’s. If a group course is what you need, the question list above will help you compare the ones you find.

### How long does each format take?

A group course runs as long as its agenda, which the organizer sets ahead of time for everyone. Our private training has no fixed length. A training may be one day, two days, or more, scoped to what you need, and two days is a common shape, not a standard.

### Do I get a certificate from either format?

Many courses of either kind hand you a certificate, so ask what it says. Ours is a Certificate of Completion, and it says you trained. It is not a license, a board certification or a credential, and it does not extend your scope of practice. No certificate from any course gives you the right to do a procedure, because that comes from your state license and your board.

### Where does private training take place?

It takes place at an instructor’s location, inside that clinician’s working practice, or inside your own practice. We are U.S. based, with worldwide reach, and our [locations page](https://regenmedacademy.com/locations/) has more. It is your responsibility to confirm the modality is legal in your state for your license. Do that before you book.

### What do I take home from private training?

You leave our training with course materials and slide decks, sample consent forms, and a Certificate of Completion. You also get a written practice roadmap after we review your practice, and you keep what we find whether you train with us or not. After that, you have ongoing access to our clinicians, so you have somebody to call when a question comes up.

## Key takeaways

- A group course is built for a whole room, and private training is built for one provider or one practice.
- A group day follows a set agenda, while a private day follows your cases, your questions and your pace.
- A group course is a sound pick when you are still deciding, want a wide view, want to meet peers or need credit hours.
- Private training fits when you have decided, need supervised hands-on time, or want your staff trained with you.
- Train on the system you own if you can. PRP devices are cleared for use with bone graft material, and injecting PRP is off-label.
- Regen Med Academy sells private training only, and it does not offer CME.

## RMA disclosure

Regenerative Medicine Academy (RMA) is an education company. We train licensed providers in some of the techniques this post covers. This post is education only. It is not medical, legal, business, tax or financial advice.

We sell private training only, so we have a stake in this comparison.

## Your next step

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