DUKE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION COURSE (Duke TMS Course) October 4-October 6,2025

October 4, 2025 to October 6, 2025
  • The three-day course offers intensive training on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). TMS is an FDA-cleared treatment for depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, migraines, smoking cessation and cortical mapping. Sponsored by the Duke University School of Medicine, it includes didactic sessions and hands-on administration of TMS. The didactic sessions with the TMS faculty of Duke University cover all topics relevant to running a TMS clinical service and a TMS research lab, including: Device principles and types, Neuroscience of TMS, Motor threshold determination, Treatment technique, Stimulus dosing, Risks, complications and contraindications, Safety screening, Post-TMS management and continuation treatment, Clinical and non-clinical research applications, and Emerging brain stimulation techniques. The fellowship is currently offered on a quarterly basis. Below you will find the dates for 2025. • January 25-27 2025 • April 26-28, 2025• July 26-28, 2025 • October 4-6, 2025. Registration includes: only course materials and breakfast and lunch for all three days.

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physicians

Learning Objectives

• Discussing the rationale for the use of TMS in depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and off-label conditions.

• Discussing regulatory issues and policies concerning TMS

• Identifying the two main components of transcranial magnetic stimulation devices

• Discussing how to use the TMS device and correctly use it to determine the optimal site and motor threshold

• Describing the findings from TMS research in imaging and motor cortex excitability studies

• Applying the indications for use of TMS in depression • Identify the risks and side effects of TMS and describe how to conduct a safety screening

• Designing a protocol for seizure management during TMS administration

• Identifying steps necessary to set up a TMS service/lab.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 20.00 ANCC
  • 20.00 Attendance
  • 20.00 JA Credit - AH
    • 20.00 Approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Registration Opens: 
10/06/2025
Registration Expires: 
10/05/2026
Activity Starts: 
10/04/2025 - 8:30am EDT
Activity Ends: 
10/06/2025 - 6:00pm EDT
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Durham, NC 27705
United States
  • Simon Davis

          Speaker

  • Tommy Fu

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  • Jonathan R. Young

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  • Andrada Neacsiu

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  • WuWei (Wayne) Feng

          Speaker

  • Bruce M. Luber

            Speaker

  • Sandeep Vaishnavi

            Speaker

  • Shawn McClintock

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  • Leha Fryml

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  • Asa Cordle

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  • Greg Sahlem

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  • ANCC 
  • AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)
  • Attendance

Available Credit

  • 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 20.00 ANCC
  • 20.00 Attendance
  • 20.00 JA Credit - AH
    • 20.00 Approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
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