Continuing Medical Education (CME) Information
To receive your CME certificate:
- Download the Credit Claim Form.
- Indicate the number of hours you attended (credit will be verified against registration).
- Send the completed form to asrameetings@asra.com.
- Your certificate will be emailed to you within 1 week.
Educational objectives
After participating in this educational activity, participants should be able to:
- Demonstrate fundamental and advanced techniques in interventional pain medicine using fluoroscopic and ultrasound guidance, including neuraxial procedures, peripheral injections, nerve blocks, minimally invasive lumbar decompression, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation.
- Review applications for neuromodulation beyond chronic pain including spinal cord injury, CRPS, and angina.
- Review pathophysiology and treatment for CRPS.
- Summarize latest updates in radiofrequency ablation including basivertebral nerve ablation, updated understanding of techniques and approaches, and consideration of long-term functional outcomes.
- Give examples of cases and anatomy review involving sympathetic blocks, epidural steroid injections, and facial blocks.
- Illustrate key considerations for advanced pain procedures including lumbar fusion, spinal decompression, and SI joint fusion.
- Analyze strategies for overcoming practice obstacles including payment structure, risk management, and diversifying practice patterns.
Target audience
The ASRA Pain Medicine CME program provides educational activities to physicians, residents, fellows, and scientists. ASRA Pain Medicine supports a multidisciplinary and interprofessional approach to continuing education and patient care by also providing relevant education for other health care professionals not directly engaging in interventional regional anesthesia and/or pain medicine procedures. ASRA Pain Medicine offers learning opportunities to the national and international health care community.
Accreditation and credit designation statements
| Credits by Day | Maximum |
| Thursday | 8.50 |
| Friday | 8.00 |
| Saturday | 8.00 |
| Total Credits | 24.50 |
Physicians
The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine designates this an Other activity (containing live and internet enduring material) for a maximum of 24.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PAs (Physicians Assistants)
AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society.
Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 24.50 hours of Category 1 credit for completing this program.
Nurse Practitioners
The American Association of Nurse Practitioners accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. This activity has been approved for a maximum of 24.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™
Registered Nurses
Regulations dictate that only physicians may earn CME credits; however, many state Boards of Registered Nursing accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. Attendees are responsible
for confirming their specific boards’ acceptance of ASRA Pain Medicine-provided credits. This activity has been approved for a maximum of 24.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™
The American Board of Anesthesiology MOCA®
Part 2 Patient Safety CME
This activity contributes to the patient safety CME requirement for the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s (ABA) redesigned Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology™
(MOCA
®) program, known as MOCA 2.0.® [1] Please consult the ABA website, https://www.theaba.org for a list of all MOCA 2.0® requirements.
Max. 21 credits. Note that some sessions are concurrent.
Workshops – requires additional registration and fee
- WS-01: Musculoskeletal Diagnostic Ultrasound – Upper Extremity/Trunk (1.75 credits)
- WS-04: Lumbar Spine Procedural Fundamentals (2.0 credits)
- WS-11: Regenerative Medicine, Prolotherapy, Tenotomy (4.25 credits)
- WS-13: Craniofacial and Neck Ultrasound + Fluoro: SON, Occipital, Maxillary, Cervical Medial Branch Blocks, Stellate, Trigeminal, Trochlear, SPG, Occipital, Supraorbital, Infraorbital, Mental, Accessory and Auricular, Glossopharyngeal (2.0 credits)
- WS-16: SI Joint Fusion (2.0 credits)
- WS-17: Upper and Lower Extremity Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (2.0 credits)
- WS-18: Dorsal Root Ganglion Trialing (2.0 credits)
Open to all registrants
- PS-01b: Inject or Not? Cases and Anatomy Review (1.75 credits)
- PS-02a: Anatomical Considerations in Pinnacle Pain Management (1.75 credits)
- IS-02: Updates in Regenerative Medicine (2.0 credits)
- IS-04: Skeletons in My Closet: My Most Challenging Cases and How I Managed Them (1.5 credits)
- IS-07: PNS: Targets, Techniques and Optimizing Long-term Outcomes (1.75 credits)
- Plen-03: Let’s Go! (2.25 credits)
- RC-04: Updates in Radiofrequency Ablation (1.5 credits)
Credit Reporting to the ABA
ASRA Pain Medicine is an ABA-approved provider and, as a service to ASRA Pain Medicine members and participants, CME credits are reported to the ABA. Participants must include their correctly formatted
ABA ID number (34567890) during the online evaluation and credit claim process available at the conclusion of the activity. Once the online evaluation and credit claim process is closed, certificates will be issued and credits reported to the ABA.
After this time, participants may request their CME certificate by contacting asrameetings@asra.com,
but ASRA Pain Medicine will no longer report credits to the ABA, which will then be the individual participant’s responsibility.
[1]Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology™ program and MOCA® are registered trademarks of The American Board of Anesthesiology. MOCA 2.0® is a trademark of The American Board of Anesthesiology.
International credits
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada has agreements based on the mutual recognition of credit points with the American Medical Association for live and web-based (synchronous
or asynchronous) educational events. You may submit your CME certificate directly for credit recognition of this accredited group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada. For more information, visit: www.royalcollege.ca
European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (UEMS-EACCME)
The UEMS-EACCME has agreements based on the mutual recognition of credit points with the American Medical Association for live and e-learning educational events. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity. The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS): www.uems.net
Commercial support disclosure
Click here to view all industry support. This meeting is supported, in part, by educational grants and in-kind support from industry. All support is managed in strict accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence. Appropriate acknowledgment of all supporting organizations is made to participants prior to the educational activity on the event website and with signage during the meeting. View the guidelines for company representative and in-kind support.
Disclosure and mitigation of personal conflicts of interest
Click here to view all faculty disclosures (coming soon). In accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence and related policies, ASRA Pain Medicine is committed to ensuring balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in its continuing medical education and continuing professional development activities. Those in control of the educational content disclose all relationships (financial or other) with any ineligible company that they have had within the past 24 months. If an individual refuses to disclose, they are disqualified from participating. Disclosure information is evaluated and conflicts of interest mitigated. Disclosure is made to participants prior to the activity. Participants are asked to evaluate the objectivity and independence. Off-label or investigational use of a therapeutic product also is disclosed.