Where we train
Regenerative Medicine Training in San Diego, California
PRP and regenerative medicine training for licensed providers in San Diego and across California. It’s private and hands-on, on a live consenting patient.
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U.S. based, worldwide
Training in San Diego
San Diego providers practice from Oceanside and Carlsbad down the coast through Encinitas, Del Mar and La Jolla to the city and Chula Vista near the border, and inland to Escondido, Poway and El Cajon. Most of the county sits within about an hour of downtown on I-5, I-15 or I-8, so a session anywhere in it is a short drive from the airport.
You pick the room. The instructor can travel to your practice and teach on your own equipment and your own consenting patients, with travel in the quote, or you can come to an instructor’s own clinic and train where they work. In both cases the session is private, the patient is real and has consented, and we settle the scope with you before you book.
Who can train? Anyone legally able to provide the treatment in California, which depends on the license you hold. The California section below is the short version of how the state handles each license, and it links to the full reading, license by license, with the source for every line.
Local detail
San Diego at a glance.
Where the instructor flies in, the county a San Diego session covers, and the health systems you practice alongside.
Getting here
The instructor flies into San Diego International Airport (SAN), run by the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, for a session inside your practice anywhere in the county. The quote already covers travel and lodging.
The area a San Diego session covers
San Diego County, from Oceanside, Carlsbad, Encinitas and Del Mar on the coast to Escondido, San Marcos, Poway, El Cajon, La Mesa, National City and Chula Vista. Practices in Temecula and Murrieta, just over the Riverside County line, are on the Riverside page, and Orange County practices are on the Los Angeles page.
Health systems in San Diego
UC San Diego Health describes itself as the region’s only academic medical center. Scripps Health, founded by Ellen Browning Scripps in 1924, calls itself a not-for-profit, integrated health system in San Diego. Sharp HealthCare is, in its own words, a health care system in San Diego with five acute-care hospitals, five specialty hospitals, three affiliated medical groups and one health plan.
North County and the medical school
In North County, Palomar UC San Diego Health runs a delivery system anchored by two medical center campuses, in Escondido and Poway. The UC San Diego School of Medicine calls itself the region’s only medical school. Sharp’s first hospital, the Donald N. Sharp Memorial Community Hospital, was dedicated on April 2, 1955, and named for a 22-year-old bomber pilot lost in World War II. Source
Worth knowing
On July 9, 1890, the Sisters of Mercy, led by Sister Mary Michael Cummings, opened a five-bed dispensary, St. Joseph’s, on Sixth Avenue and Market Street in downtown San Diego. Scripps Health traces its history to it. Source
The market
San Diego County in numbers.
The public figures for the county you practice in: how big it is, who lives in it, what the border and the Navy add, and how many physicians are licensed here. Follow the link beside any number to the page it was taken from.
One county, 18 cities
Our San Francisco page covers seven counties. This one covers one. The Census Bureau’s July 2025 estimate counts 3,282,248 residents in San Diego County, on about 4,210 square miles of land. Source SANDAG, the San Diego Association of Governments, describes the region’s people as “spread among 18 cities, the County of San Diego, and 17 federally recognized tribes.” Source When you request a date, the useful detail is which of those cities you are in.
An age mix just under the national one
In San Diego County, 19.9 percent of residents are under 18 and 17.5 percent are 65 or older. Source Across the United States the shares are 21.1 and 18.9 percent. Source So about 63 percent of the county is aged 18 to 64, against 60 percent for the country. These are residents, not patients, and a census table cannot tell you who will book with a given practice.
A county that ends at an international border
In a 2019 fact sheet, the General Services Administration called the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry “the busiest land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere,” processing an average of 70,000 northbound vehicle passengers and 20,000 northbound pedestrians a day. Source In the county, 22.8 percent of residents were born in another country and, among residents 5 and older, 37.3 percent speak a language other than English at home, both for 2020 to 2024. Source The national shares are 14.1 and 22.3 percent. Source
Navy medicine beside Balboa Park
Part of the county’s medical workforce wears a uniform. Naval Medical Center San Diego says it “employs more than 6,000 active duty, civilians, contractors and volunteers working throughout the Southern California region.” Source The Defense Health Agency places it adjacent to Balboa Park and lists 325 to 375 residents in training there each year. Source On the Marine Corps base north of Oceanside, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton describes itself as “a medium size, teaching hospital” near the main gate. Source Source
Veterans, and where the VA trains
The Census Bureau counts 183,791 veterans living in San Diego County over 2020 to 2024. Source That is a count of residents and nothing more. The VA San Diego Healthcare System has its main hospital in La Jolla and outpatient clinics in Chula Vista, Escondido, El Centro, Kearny Mesa, Oceanside and Sorrento Valley. It says it trains 1,341 medical interns, residents and fellows every year and is primarily affiliated with the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Source
Physicians licensed in the county
The Medical Board of California’s 2024/25 annual report counts 12,837 physicians and surgeons with a renewed and current license in San Diego County, out of 126,925 with a California address. That works out to about one in ten. Only Los Angeles County, at 33,672, has more. Source The San Diego County Medical Society dates its start to a preliminary meeting on July 19, 1870. Its membership pitch today reads, “Join over 4,600 physicians making a direct impact on health care legislation.” Source
Offices by type, from the Census
San Diego County had 2,576 offices of physicians in 2023, by the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns county file. Source The same file lists 577 offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists and audiologists, a single group in the Census tables, 452 offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners and 435 offices of chiropractors. Chiropractic is the smallest of the four, at about one office for every six physician offices. The unit here is a business location with paid employees. It is not a head count of clinicians, so one office is one entry however many people work in it.
Local rules
What San Diego and San Diego County ask of a practice.
Which procedures your license covers is California’s decision, and that reading is in the California section below. What follows is the business side as of October 2026: two rules from the City of San Diego and three from the county. This is a place to begin and not legal advice, so the office named in each row has the last word.
The city's Business Tax Certificate
The Office of the City Treasurer says: “All businesses operating in the City of San Diego are required to obtain a Business Tax Certificate.” Source Its application page adds that businesses will be required to self-certify that the business is allowed in the zone that applies to the property. Source How we read it: that is the City of San Diego’s rule. A practice in Chula Vista, Carlsbad or Escondido takes the question to that city.
A practice name that is not your surname
The county’s Assessor, Recorder and County Clerk says any person who regularly transacts business for profit under a fictitious name in the County of San Diego is required to file a Fictitious Business Name Statement with the County Clerk within 40 days of first transacting business. Source How we read it: the filing is with the county, so La Jolla and Oceanside use the same office.
Before a suite is occupied
Inside the city, Development Services Information Bulletin 585 says no structure or portion of a structure shall be used or occupied, and no change in its use or occupancy classification made, until the Building Official has issued a Certificate of Occupancy approving that use or occupancy. Source How we read it: the certificate belongs to the rooms, and it matters at a lease, a build-out or a change of use.
The county runs the local health department
The county’s Public Health Services says it “is the local health department” and that it operates within the county’s Health and Human Services Agency. Source That agency describes its reach as 18 cities and the unincorporated areas of the County. Source How we read it: one county department covers a practice inside the city or anywhere else in the county.
Medical waste is the county's
The county’s Environmental Health and Quality department says a facility that generates, stores, or disposes of medical waste in San Diego County must either obtain a Unified Program Facility Permit or a Small Quantity Medical Waste Generator Biennial Registration from its Hazardous Materials Division. Generating 200 pounds or more in any given month is one case for the permit. Source Under 200 pounds a month, its registration page says a small quantity generator who meets the qualifications must register with the division under a County Ordinance. Source How we read it: for sharps and blood-contaminated waste, the office to ask is the county’s.
California rules
California scope and law, in brief.
This is the short version as of October 2026, a starting point and not legal advice. The full reading, license by license with each code section linked, is in the California scope and law sections on our Los Angeles page, and our summary is on the rules by state page.
It is your responsibility to confirm the modality is legal in your state for your license. Do that before you book. The authority on your own scope is your licensing board, not us.
Physicians, NPs and PAs
How we read section 2051: the hands-on work we teach sits inside a physician’s license. Source California has restricted practice for nurse practitioners, according to the AANP. Source An NP works under standardized procedures with a supervising physician, Source unless qualified as a 103 or 104 NP under AB 890, which can work without them in the settings the law allows. Source A PA works under physician supervision and a practice agreement. Source
RNs, chiropractors and physical therapists
How we read the Nursing Practice Act: an RN’s part starts from an order inside the ordering practitioner’s scope. Source How we read the chiropractic regulations: the injection work in our courses sits outside a California chiropractic license. Source Put the question to the board in writing before you book. How we read the physical therapy code: injections are outside a California PT license. Source
Stem cell laws
A practitioner who performs a stem cell therapy that is subject to FDA regulation but not FDA approved must give patients a set notice, posted and in writing. Source Section 684 does not mention platelet-rich plasma. Whether your product or procedure is covered is a call for your counsel and your board. A tissue bank operating in California must hold a current state license. Source The FDA’s rules apply in every state.
Formats and pricing
Two ways to train in San Diego, and both are private.
The hands-on work with a consenting patient is the same either way. What changes is whose room it is, and who from your practice is in it. Both prices are starting points: the quote depends on the course, how many people are training and how much of the curriculum is built around you.
At an instructor location
From $5,000
You come to us, at an instructor’s own working practice.
At your own practice
From $10,000
We come to you, anywhere in California, with the instructor’s travel and lodging inside the quote. What on-site training includes.
Cancel or refund any time up to thirty days out. Inside thirty days, no refund.
On a refund, covering card processing and office costs.
To move your date, covering the travel that moves with it.
Questions about dates, format or fit? Talk to us.
Training courses we offer
Every course runs in San Diego.
The hands-on day is in person, at an instructor’s practice or inside yours.
Common questions
What San Diego providers ask before they book.
How much does training in San Diego cost?
Training inside your own practice in San Diego starts at $10,000, with the instructor's travel and lodging included. Training at an instructor's location starts at $5,000. Both are starting points. The quote depends on the discipline, the instructor, how many people are training and how much of the curriculum is built around you.
Is a practice in Oceanside, Escondido or Chula Vista still a San Diego session?
Yes. A San Diego session covers the whole county: about 4,210 square miles of land by the Census Bureau's measure, Source with 18 cities in it by SANDAG's count. Source Put the practice address in your date request so the plan starts from it. The instructor's travel and lodging sit inside the quote in North County the same as downtown.
How far is the airport from my practice?
The instructor flies into San Diego International Airport, which the airport's own history page places on 661 acres, 3 miles northwest of downtown San Diego. Source From there most of the county is within about an hour by I-5, I-15 or I-8. When the session is in your practice, the flight is the instructor's, not yours.
Does practicing in San Diego change which California rules apply to me?
No. What each license allows, and the state's stem cell notice and tissue bank laws, come from California and its licensing boards, so they read the same in San Diego as in Los Angeles or Sacramento. The short version sits in the California section above this one, and the full reading, one license at a time, is on our Los Angeles page. What decides it is the license you hold.
My practice is in Temecula. Is that San Diego or Riverside?
Riverside. Temecula's own General Plan places the city in "the southwestern corner of Riverside County," Source so Temecula and Murrieta practices are on our Riverside page, and Orange County practices are on the Los Angeles page. Nothing about the training changes at a county line: the instructor comes to your practice or you train at an instructor's own working practice, every session is private, and the plan is agreed before you book.
I'm not licensed in California. Can I train in San Diego?
Say so when you request a date. When the instructor comes to you, you train in your own practice, under the license you hold there. When you come to an instructor's location in California, your California licensure decides what you do hands on, and we agree that plan with you before you book.
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Important information
Read this before you book.
Know what a course is not before you book. It won’t make you a specialist. It carries no CMEs, credit hours or accreditation, and it doesn’t cover your malpractice: you arrange that yourself. No one can promise you outcomes. It is education for licensed providers, not medical or legal advice, and some products and modalities discussed are not FDA approved or cleared for the uses discussed. The Certificate of Completion is not a license or a board certification, and it does not expand your scope of practice. Read the full notes.