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Build a confident foundation in TMS practice.
UCLA TMS Academy is a focused learning environment for psychiatrists and clinicians building or strengthening their TMS practice.
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What you’ll learn.
Your free orientation
Included with your free account
What is TMS?
A concise orientation to TMS — the machine, what patients experience, and basic safety. Quick animations and 1–2 simulator exercises to ground you before diving into the full curriculum.
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Using the machine
The console, the coil, and how a treatment session runs.
Targeting and motor threshold
Locating the treatment target and determining the motor threshold.
FDA-cleared indications
What TMS is cleared to treat, and the evidence behind each clearance.
Off-label indications
Where TMS is used beyond its clearances, and how strong the evidence is.
Side effects and safety
Recognizing side effects, triaging them, and the safety checks around every session.
Talking to patients
Explaining TMS and answering the questions patients actually ask.
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Free Part I lessons
Meet the machine, learn what patients experience, and review basic safety.
Learning checks
Short questions that reinforce the key ideas as you move through the lesson.
Four simulator exercises
Explore targets, navigate the coil, and observe a pulse and hand twitch in the browser.
Saved progress
Return on any device and continue from where you left off.
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