Intensive Course in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Continuing Education
Develop hands-on expertise in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) through intensive training in its principles, clinical applications, techniques, and safety standards. Gain practical experience conducting TMS studies, designing protocols, and interpreting findings across neurophysiology, neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry.
- In Person
This course is taught in person in real time.
Recordings will not be available for this course.
Inn at Longwood Medical Center | 342 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA
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Continuing Education
Earn up to:
XX.XX AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™
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All evaluations and credit claims must be completed within 60 days of the course end date.
5 days
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Overview
This “Intensive Course in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)” provides a unique opportunity for hands-on learning of the basic principles, standards of use, and potential applications of TMS in clinical neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry. It is a one-week course offered three times per year. The course is conducted in small groups of up to 24 participants with formal teaching sessions and ample practical exposure. At the end of the course participants will have learned and directly experienced how to determine motor threshold, how to record motor evoked potentials, how to conduct cortical mapping, silent period, input-output curve, and paired-pulse TMS studies, and how to safely apply repetitive TMS. Participants will have also learned how to design TMS studies, write TMS protocols and interpret findings of TMS studies.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the basics of the TMS device design and influence of TMS coil shapes on biologic effects.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the neurobiologic effects of single-, paired-, and repetitive TMS.
- State the risks associated with TMS and assess how to manage them.
- Identify the contraindications for the use of TMS.
- Identify basic TMS mechanisms and TMS safety concerns that can be explored with animal models.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the evidence for the approved uses of TMS in major depressive disorder and other neuropsychiatric conditions.
- Explain motor threshold and describe how it is established.
- Recognize the basic set-up and stimulation parameters for paired-pulse TMS.
- Understand how to perform the various rTMS protocols.
- Describe the limitations in knowledge regarding the reliability of effects of different rTMS protocols.
- Explore the reasons for combining TMS with MRI, fMRI, and EEG.
- Summarize principles of targeting and dosing of TMS.
- State the current clinical applications and approvals for TMS.
- Describe the data supporting its efficacy in different conditions.
Developed and Offered By:
Continuing Education courses are developed by faculty from Harvard Medical School's teaching hospitals and accredited by Harvard Medical School. This course is offered by Dana Farber Cancer Insititue.
Who Should Participate
Specialty Physicians, Psychologists, Researchers, Others
Schedule
All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.
Monday, November 2, 2026
Breakfast, Registration, and Welcome
8:30-9:00 am
Introduction to the TMS Course
9:00-9:30 am
TMS Basics
9:30-10:30 am
TMS Safety/Intro to Seizures
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00-1:00 pm
Setting Up a TMS Clinic
1:00-2:15 pm
Clinical Applications and Depression Evidence
2:15-3:30 pm
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Breakfast Reception
7:30-8:00 am
Hands-On Session: Motor Hotspot/Threshold
8:00-11:00 am
Break
11:00-11:15 am
TMS Physics and Physiology: Targeting, Dosing, and Physiological Effects
11:15 am-12:30 pm
Lunch
12:30-1:30 pm
Neurological Applications
1:30-2:45 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Breakfast Reception
7:30-8:00 am
Special Populations
8:00-9:15 am
TMS and Modeling
9:15-10:30 am
Break
10:30-10:45 am
State-Dependent Interactions of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
10:45 am-12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00-1:00 pm
TMS & EEG
1:00-2:15 pm
Break
2:15-2:30 pm
Paired Pulse
2:30-3:30 pm
Clinical Program Demonstration
2:30-3:30 pm
Neuronavigation Demonstration
2:30-3:30 pm
Transition
3:30-3:45 pm
Transition
3:30-3:45 pm
Transition
3:30-3:45 pm
Neuronavigation Demonstration
3:45-4:45 pm
Paired Pulse
3:45-4:45 pm
Clinical Program Demonstration
3:45-4:45 pm
Transition
4:45-5:00 pm
Transition
4:45-5:00 pm
Transition
4:45-5:00 pm
Clinical Program Demonstration
5:00-6:00 pm
Neuronavitation Demonstration
5:00-6:00 pm
Paired Pulse
5:00-6:00 pm
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Breakfast Reception
7:30-8:00 am
TMS in Animal Models
8:00-9:15 am
TMS and Imaging
9:15-10:30 am
Break
10:30-10:45 am
The Placebo Effect
10:45 am-12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00-1:00 pm
Pharmacology of TMS
1:00-2:15 pm
Break
2:15-2:30 pm
Psychiatric Applications of TMS
2:30-4:00 pm
Break / Transition
4:00-4:15 pm
Setting Up a Lab
4:15-5:45 pm
Adjourn
5:45-6:00 pm
Course Dinner
6:00-9:00 pm
Friday, November 6, 2026
Breakfast Reception
7:30-8:00 am
Brain Stimulation in Rehabilitation
8:00-9:15 am
Special Populations
9:15-10:30 am
Break
10:30-10:45 am
Brain Circuit Therapeutics
10:45 am-12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00-1:00 pm
The Future of TMS
1:00-2:00 pm
Question and Answer, Course Photo, and Certificates
2:00-5:00 pm
Faculty
Harvard Medical School Continuing Education offers faculty who are international experts and leading educators in their fields. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty.
Course Directors
Moushin Shafi
MD, PhD | Course Director
- Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
MD, PhD | Course Director
- Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Alexander Rotenberg
MD, PhD | Course Director
- Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Joshua Brown, MD, PhD
Associate Professor and Founding Chief of Brain Medicine at Arizona State University
Matthew Burke, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Toronto
Joan Camprodon, MD, MPH. PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Linda Carpenter, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Kevin Chase, BS
Neuromodulation Technician, Berenson-Allen Center
Dylan Edwards, PhD, PT
Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Thomas Jefferson Univesity
Shirley Fecteau, PhD
Professor, Université Laval
Emma Ferry, BS
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, Berenson-Allen Center
Michael Fox, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Pete Fried, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Iris Hall, BS
Neuromodulation Technician/Clinical Research Coordinator
Aapo Nummenmaa, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Liam O'Brien, BS
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
Recep Ozdemir, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Trudy Pang, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Press, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Tommi Raij
Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Shan Siddiqi, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Joseph Taylor, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification. We would also suggest that learners check with their state licensing board to ensure they accept reciprocity with AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for re-licensure.
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