CME Information and Program Resources

Description
The Texas Pain Society 18th Annual Scientific Meeting provides current education in pain medicine, addiction medicine, interventional techniques, patient safety, emerging technology, medical ethics, and the regulatory issues affecting pain practices. Education is delivered through live lectures, moderated panel discussions, clinical case presentations, and hands-on workshops.

Statement of Need
This educational activity addresses identified practice gaps reported through prior program evaluations, planning committee review, learner feedback, and input from pain physicians and advanced practice providers. The program is designed to help clinicians evaluate new evidence, improve patient selection and safety, strengthen documentation and communication, and apply current professional and regulatory requirements.

Target Audience
This conference is designed for physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, fellows, and other healthcare professionals involved in pain management and related clinical care.

Educational Method
Educational methods include live didactic presentations, moderated panel discussions, case-based learning, question-and-answer sessions, and hands-on workshops.

Accreditation and Credit Designation
The Texas Pain Society is accredited by the Texas Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Texas Pain Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 18.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Credit will be awarded based on verified attendance. Participants requesting CME credit must complete the conference evaluation. Credit cannot be awarded for meals, breaks, exhibits, receptions, awards, networking events, non-CME activities, or overlapping sessions.
Depending on the sessions and concurrent program attended, an individual participant may be eligible to claim up to:
• 18.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• 13.00 ABA MOCA® credits
• 7.50 hours of Texas medical ethics and/or professional responsibility
• 5.50 hours of DEA MATE Act training
• 4.50 hours of Texas Medical Board pain management and opioid prescribing education
• 10.00 hours applicable to the Texas Medical Board pain management clinic education requirement

Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology® and MOCA® are registered certification marks of the American Board of Anesthesiology®.

These specialty and regulatory hours are included within, and are not additional to, the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ awarded. Because certain workshops and sessions occur concurrently, the category maximums represent different attendance pathways and cannot necessarily all be earned by the same participant.

Selected sessions have been registered with the American Board of Anesthesiology for MOCA® credit. Up to 13.00 MOCA® credits are available based on verified attendance in eligible sessions. TPS will report eligible physician participation through PARS after completion of the required evaluation and credit-claim process. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA requirements.

Speaker Bios Speaker Disclosures Evaluations and Credit Claim


Learning Objectives

Overall Conference Objectives

  • Evaluate current evidence, clinical applications, and patient-safety considerations for emerging and nontraditional pain therapies.
  • Apply evidence-based strategies for assessing and managing patients with chronic pain, substance use disorders, and controlled-substance risks.
  • Select appropriate patients for interventional, neuromodulation, regenerative, and minimally invasive pain therapies.
  • Integrate current medical, legal, ethical, and regulatory requirements into pain-management practice.

Ultrasound Workshop

  • Identify sonoanatomy relevant to cervical sympathetic, ilioinguinal, iliohypogastric, and lateral femoral cutaneous nerve blocks.
  • Demonstrate ultrasound-guided approaches to suprascapular, axillary, and lateral pectoral nerve blocks and subdeltoid or subacromial bursa injection.
  • Apply ultrasound guidance to hip and knee interventions, including intra-articular hip injection, PENG block, greater trochanteric bursa injection, and genicular nerve blocks.

Addiction Workshop

  • Assess the relationships among alcohol use, THC use, chronic pain, and treatment planning.
  • Select and interpret drug-testing strategies appropriate to pain-management practice.
  • Use patient-centered communication techniques for difficult conversations involving substance use, risk, and treatment expectations.
  • Evaluate current evidence regarding GLP-1 agonists in pain and addiction care.

APP Concurrent Workshop

  • Apply urine drug screening, opioid tapering, and difficult-conversation strategies in pain-management practice.
  • Identify the required components of a comprehensive pain-management medical evaluation.
  • Use physical examination and imaging findings to recognize red flags and guide referral or procedural decisions.
  • Select patients for interventional pain therapies using clinical findings, safety considerations, and expected outcomes.
  • Evaluate appropriate uses and limitations of artificial intelligence in clinical practice.

Main Conference Objectives and Disclosures

Main Conference

  • Evaluate clinical evidence, risks, and patient-selection considerations related to psilocybin and kratom in chronic pain care.
  • Compare multidisciplinary approaches to opioid risk, buprenorphine, substance use disorder, and addiction neurobiology.
  • Apply medico-legal and ethical considerations to minimally invasive spine therapies and artificial intelligence in clinical practice.
  • Evaluate updates, complications, and patient-selection considerations in spinal cord stimulation and other neuromodulation therapies.
  • Compare regenerative medicine, endoscopic medial branch procedures, intradiscal therapy, and basivertebral nerve ablation for selected pain conditions.
  • Apply lessons from fellow case presentations to clinical reasoning, treatment planning, and patient safety.
  • Incorporate current Texas Medical Board, TMA, Medicare, legislative, and public-policy updates into pain-management practice.

Disclosures to the Learner

Requirements for Successful Completion
• Register for the applicable course or conference program.
• Attend the accredited presentation or session for which credit is claimed.
• Complete the conference evaluation and credit-claim process.

The Texas Pain Society received in-kind commercial support from GE Healthcare, which provided three ultrasound machines for use during the Ultrasound Workshop. No monetary commercial support was received for this activity.

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Faculty and planner disclosures are available through the Speaker Disclosures QR code (or link below) and must be reviewed before learners engage with the accredited education.

Non-endorsement statement: Accredited status does not imply endorsement of any commercial products or services by the Texas Pain Society or the Texas Medical Association.

The Importance of Evaluations
The Texas Pain Society is committed to improving its continuing medical education activities. Participant evaluations help TPS assess whether the program met its objectives, identify remaining practice gaps, and plan future education. Please complete the evaluation and claim only the credit that corresponds to the accredited sessions you attended.