CTMSS Training Singapore: PULSES & PAIN Academy
The Clinical TMS Society is pleased to introduce its first Dual-Track TMS Training Course. Bringing together the expert faculty and content of both PULSES and PAIN ACADEMY courses, the Singapore course offers a 2-day intensive training experience in one location for clinicians with diverse interests and educational needs.
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Course attendees will elect one of two tracks for in-depth training focus:
- Psychiatric applications of TMS (PULSES)
or
- TMS applications for Pain Disorders (PAIN ACADEMY)
All course attendees will receive historical, updated, and practical knowledge for treating patients with TMS based on the best available evidence. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have obtained a historical, science-informed, evidencebased and practical body of knowledge for treating patients with TMS.
The Singapore course is comprised of general lectures, focus-track lectures, live demonstrations, up to 3 hours of hands-on training, and an open question/answer session with all faculty before completion of a self-directed test. A certificate of completion is issued by the CTMSS following submission of the test.
Program content for both tracks includes the following:
• Introduction to the history of and basic scientific principles underlying TMS by Professor Anthony Barker, who designed the first-ever TMS machine in 1985;
• Preventing/Managing Side Effects and Seizure Prevention;
• Motor Threshold Procedures, Head Measurement Heuristics, and Methods for identifying the stimulation target;
• Hands-on training: motor threshold determination (hand, foot), methods for identifying stimulation targets, coil placement for treatment sessions, principles of neuronavigation; TMS device system features, safety considerations;
• An interactive Q&A Panel with combined Pulses and Pain Academy faculty.
Psychiatric Focus Track (PULSES)
• Pivotal and foundational clinical trials investigating the treatment of depression with TMS and regulatory approvals;
• Overview of research findings that demonstrate TMS' mechanisms of action;
• Practical aspects of TMS administration and setting up a successful TMS clinical service/practice: treatment setting, establishing staff roles/responsibilities and standard operating procedures, staff and prescriber training and education, TMS patient management; medical record documentation, etc.
• Treating Depression: Selection of TMS protocol, optimization, monitoring clinical response, acute course extensions, maintenance TMS, re-introduction/repeat TMS courses, accelerated schedules.
• Beyond Depression: Evidence-based approaches for treatment of OCD and other neuropsychiatric disorders
TMS applications for Pain Disorders (PAIN ACADEMY)
The PAIN Academy is CTMSS's newly developed training program tailored to providers interested in utilizing TMS for pain disorders. Attendees in this track will participate in the following lecture series.
• Review of Pain Pathophysiology, Classification, and Assessment as it relates to TMS as a therapeutic modality for treating Pain Disorders.
• Review of Foundational and Pivotal trials for Utilization of TMS as a therapeutic modality for Pain
• Overview of Outcome Evidence and current evidence-based protocols for TMS for chronic neuropathic pain, acute pain, fibromyalgia, headache/migraine, CRPS, Cancer Pain and peripheral Magnetic Stimulation
• Overview of TMS Technology including Neuronavigation principles
• Practical clinical treatment considerations for pain clinics and case discussions
Cancellation Policy:
• Conference registration cancellations must be received in writing on or before February 13, 2026, to receive a refund minus a $100.00 administration fee.
• Conference registration may not be transferred to a future conference.
• No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after February 13, 2026.
• In the event CTMSS must cancel the conference due to unforeseen circumstances, CTMSS will refund the cost of registration. However, CTMSS does not assume responsibility for any additional costs, charges, or expenses; to include, charges made for travel and lodging.