It is always a very tough question to answer who is and who is not qualified to perform liposuction or any other cosmetic procedure. Since recent times, trained plastic surgeons learn liposuction in their training. Many of the older surgeons have learnt it later in their careers. I would suggest that a good way to address the question of qualification is to directly ask your physician if they are board certified plastic surgeons and if they perform this procedure on a regular basis. I would also ask the surgeons if they have ever had any complications. All surgeons have complications and if you are given the answer that they have never had complications, you might want to try another opinion. A very good method to check whether surgeons have proper certification to perform any surgery is to find out if they have regular hospital privileges to perform those procedures. The reason for that is that hospitals give out privileges based on the physician’s training. So the hospital has done the checking for you. It is important that the hospitals we are talking about are regular hospitals, and not surgery centres.