National Teaching Sessions
The National Teaching Sessions aims to coordinate high quality educational teaching for Pain Medicine Trainees across all regions and create opportunities to share good practice.
The National Teaching Sessions is a supplementary resource deigned to share good learning and good practice, and to allow the exposure of topics and teaching from other regions on an ad hoc basis.
This is not a replacement for local Pain Medicine teaching.
Local teaching already exists in some regions, and trainees are invited to join these established sessions.
- If you like to run a teaching session in your region or would like to share your established teaching session please click here to find out how.
- To take a look at archived programmes from previous teaching sessions, click here.
The provisional sessions for 2025 are as follows:
| Date | Topics | Centre |
|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2025 |
1300: Prof Patrice Forget - ICD-11 and chronic pain 1345: Dr Stephanie Hii - Paediatric chronic pain 1430: Break 1445: Dr Naomi Scott - Endometriosis-related CPPS 1530: Dr Saravana Kanakarajan - Imaging in chronic pain 1615: Close |
Aberdeen |
| 16 September 2025 |
1300: Anatomy & Examination of the Lumbar Spine. Dr Meera Tewani (Regional Advisor, Pain Medicine, West Midlands) 13:45: NICE guidelines related to Chronic Pain Medicine. Dr Arul James (Consultant in Pain Management) 1430: Break 1445: Anatomy and Chronic Pain of Hip & Knee Joints. Dr Ahmed Salama (Consultant in Pain Management) 1530: Cluneal Nerves: Anatomy, Examination and Management. Dr Shirjeel Chaudhry (Consultant in Pain Management)
|
University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire |
| 09 March 2026 |
0930: Pelvic pain Female overview, assessment and treatments – Dr Kothari – Pain Management 1015: Gynecology perspective- Josephine Sandwell, Consultant Gynaecologist 1045: Break 1100: Pelvic floor assessment, Katherine Pead , Women’s Health Physiotherapist 1120: Psychological assessment for Pelvic pain- Pain Specialist Psychologist 1140: Pain Management approaches for Pelvic pain – Angelika Wilczek, Physiotherapist, Pain Management Programme 1200: Neuromodulation for pelvic pain – Dr Palmisani, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Special interest Neuromodulation |
Medway and Guy’s & St Thomas’ |
| 13 April 2026 | Schedule TBC | Chelsea Westminster |
| 12 June 2026 |
0900: Paediatric neuropathic pain (Professor Suellen Walker) 0945: Pain assessment in children (Rebecca Saul CNS) 1030-1045: Break 1045: Chronic pain in children (Dr Glyn Williams) 1145: Paediatric acute pain (Dr Helen Laycock) |
GOSH |
The links for the sessions will be sent out to all registered FPM Trainees.