Available July 3- 6, 2025

Full registration Tuesday, August 17 - Friday, August 22, 2025 for members. 

Available July 3 - 6, 2025

Full registration Tuesday, August 17 - Friday, August 22, 2025 for non-members. 

📅 Date: Monday, August 18, 2025
🕗 Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
🎯 Who Can Attend? Active Duty, Reserves, and National Guard PAs from all military branches

✅ Free Event – Registration Required
👕 Dress Code: Duty Uniform (OCP)

🔹 To register for the full conference, select your preferred option from the tabs below.

Full registration to the main conference live lectures Tuesday - Friday.  Workshops are an additional fee unless noted as included in registration.  Must be a SAPA Member to receive this ticket price. The agenda coming soon! 

Full registration to the main conference live lectures Tuesday - Friday.  Workshops are an additional fee unless noted as included in registration. The agenda is coming soon!

One day of the conference.  CME for the day is included for the day of attendance.

This is a daily rate for attendance to the conference.  Please select this ticket type for adding a second day "daily rate".  

Admission to the conference with no CME included in this type of registration.  

Civilian and Military Student Day Agenda

📅 Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2025
📍 Location: Embassy Suites Riverwalk, 125 E. Houston St, San Antonio, TX
🕗 Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
🎯 Purpose: Preparing graduating PA students with essential knowledge and resources for their transition into professional practice.
👥 Audience: IPAP PA students (Active Duty, National Guard, Reserves) & civilian PA students.

Schedule of Events8:00 AM – License, Certification & Credentialing Process

• State Licensure, NPI, DEA (MATES training), CSMD (VIP security apps)
• Education documents (Diploma, board & specialty certifications)
• BLS, ACLS, PALS, ATLS, ABLS, etc.
• Credentialing for third-party payers

9:00 AM – Medical Billing & Coding

• Universal medical codes (WHO guidelines)
• Diagnosis, procedure, and equipment coding
• Billing procedures for medical services

10:00 AM – Negotiating a Civilian Contract

• Job search strategies & discipline selection
• Work-life balance & choosing a collaborating physician
• Salary, benefits, CME, supervision & career stability
  ✋ Break

11:00 AM – Medical Readiness

• Managing assets, staff, and patients
• Training schedules & documentation
• Evaluating asset status & competence

Lunch Break 12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM

1:00 PM – Personal & Professional Development as a PA

• Professional organizations (state, national, specialty)
• Continuing education, fellowships & residencies
• Mentorship, preceptorship & career growth

2:00 PM – Avoiding Litigation & the National Practitioner Data Bank

• Common legal pitfalls: incompetence, negligence, poor outcomes
• Managing patient relationships & HIPAA compliance
• Legal timelines & risk prevention

3:00 PM – Preserving the PA & Their Family

• Family & spouse support in a PA career
• Financial planning: employment, moonlighting, debt management
• Overcoming career delays & roadblocks

4:00 PM – Navigating the Military as a 65D (Separate session for AD, Res, NG)

• Unit structure, leadership roles, and assignments
• Promotions, specialty training & deployments
• Taking care of troops & advancing in the Army

💡 Special Offer for IPAP Students

Join SAPA for Free when you register for the Student Track
🔹 Use coupon code: ARMY_IPAP_STUDENT at checkout to receive your free membership.

 Same as above

Treatment of Acute & Chronic Pain

📜 Certificate & Credentialing Letter Provided
🎯 Designed for: Primary care & frontline settings
🎓 CME Credits: 4
⏳ Duration: 4 hours
👨‍🏫 Instructor: Charles Brill, PA-C, MPAS

Course Overview:

• Introduction to Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA)
• Battlefield Points – Definitions, selection rationale, and auricular locations
• Hands-on Training:
  • Use of point finders & needle selection
  • Proper technique for BFA application
  • Perform BFA on a demo ear & peer practice
• Final Assessment: Written test on BFA procedures

CME Workshop: Injection Training

🎓 CME Credits: 4 Hours
🕐 Format:

• 1 Hour – Lecture
• 3 Hours – Hands-on Injection Practice with Live Models

👨‍🏫 Instructor: Scott Festa, PA-C, DMSc

Treatment of Acute & Chronic Pain

📜 Certificate & Credentialing Letter Provided
🎯 Designed for: Primary care & frontline settings
🎓 CME Credits: 4
⏳ Duration: 4 hours
👨‍🏫 Instructor: Charles Brill, PA-C, MPAS

Course Overview:

• Introduction to Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA)
• Battlefield Points – Definitions, selection rationale, and auricular locations
• Hands-on Training:
  • Use of point finders & needle selection
  • Proper technique for BFA application
  • Perform BFA on a demo ear & peer practice
• Final Assessment: Written test on BFA procedures

Joint Injection Workshop

🔹 Topic: Greater & Lesser Occipital Nerve Block with Subtrapezial Nerve Blocks
🎯 Purpose: Treatment of headache & neck pain
📍 Widely Used In: Primary care & pain management

🎓 CME Credits: 4
📜 Certificate & Credentialing Letter Provided
👨‍🏫 Instructor: Charles Brill, PA-C, MPAS

Workshop (2-hours): MASS Posture Orthotics & Relax, Release, Relief Manual Techniques

👨‍🏫 Instructor: Edward S. Glaser, DMP
⏳ Duration: Two 1-hour sessions

Hour One: MASS Posture Theory & Foot Biomechanics

• Understanding MASS Posture Theory and its basis in Newtonian Physics
• Exploring the etiology of overpronation and its impact on the musculoskeletal system
• Restoring foot function using proper force distribution to prevent overuse, traumatic, and degenerative conditions
• Introduction to Logan Basic and RRR (Relax, Release, Relief) techniques
• Techniques to reduce foot and ankle pain and restore full range of motion within minutes

Hour Two: Hands-On Demonstration & Practice

• Review of lower extremity mechanics and the kinetic chain
• Application of Relax, Release, Relief techniques to interrupt chronic pain cycles
• Non-invasive, drug-free methods to address:
  • Fibromyalgia & CRPS
  • Athletic injuries, muscle strains, post-implant pain
  • Frozen joints, RLS, torn connective tissue, and more
• Emphasis on pain elimination, trigger point resolution, and restoring motion

📝 Techniques are gentle, easy to learn, and effective for managing chronic pain conditions.

Treatment of Acute & Chronic Pain

📜 Certificate & Credentialing Letter Provided
🎯 Designed for: Primary care & frontline settings
🎓 CME Credits: 4
⏳ Duration: 4 hours
👨‍🏫 Instructor: Charles Brill, PA-C, MPAS

Course Overview:

• Introduction to Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA)
• Battlefield Points – Definitions, selection rationale, and auricular locations
• Hands-on Training:
  • Use of point finders & needle selection
  • Proper technique for BFA application
  • Perform BFA on a demo ear & peer practice
• Final Assessment: Written test on BFA procedures

Point-of-Care Ultrasound Workshop

Friday | 0800–1200

Format:

•Blended lecture and hands-on training (approximately 2:1 ratio)

•Small group instruction with an instructor-to-student ratio of 1:5 or better

Instructors:

•Emergency Medicine Physicians

•Emergency Medicine PA-Cs

Topics Covered:

•EFAST: Trauma exam to identify abdominal free fluid, pneumothorax, and hemothorax.

•MSK Ultrasound: Evaluate fractures, tendon injuries, abscesses, and locate foreign bodies.

•Ultrasound-Guided IV Access: Develop confidence in placing IVs using direct ultrasound visualization.

•Ocular Ultrasound: Assess for globe pathology and measure optic nerve sheath diameter as a surrogate for increased intracranial pressure.

•Bedside Echocardiography: Introduction to cardiac windows, basic functional assessment, and pericardial effusion evaluation.

Treatment of Acute & Chronic Pain

📜 Certificate & Credentialing Letter Provided
🎯 Designed for: Primary care & frontline settings
🎓 CME Credits: 4
⏳ Duration: 4 hours
👨‍🏫 Instructor: Charles Brill, PA-C, MPAS

Course Overview:

• Introduction to Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA)
• Battlefield Points – Definitions, selection rationale, and auricular locations
• Hands-on Training:
  • Use of point finders & needle selection
  • Proper technique for BFA application
  • Perform BFA on a demo ear & peer practice
• Final Assessment: Written test on BFA procedures

Joint Injection Workshop

🔹 Topic: Greater & Lesser Occipital Nerve Block with Subtrapezial Nerve Blocks
🎯 Purpose: Treatment of headache & neck pain
📍 Widely Used In: Primary care & pain management

🎓 CME Credits: 4
📜 Certificate & Credentialing Letter Provided
👨‍🏫 Instructor: Charles Brill, PA-C, MPAS

Includes dinner, cash bar

Guest Ticket for dinner

Additional Guest Ticket

Guest ticket 4

Trauma skills lab providing participants interaction with current trauma/resuscitation PA
specialists & EM LTHET Faculty working on common procedures at the BAMC EM Skills Lab,
which executes every month during the BAMC Joint Army-Baylor EM LTHET. Procedures
include ultrasound guided central lines, chest tubes, surgical cricothyrotomy, hemorrhage
control, lateral canthotomy & cantholysis, etc. Advanced procures available depending on
student and facilitator qualifications include resuscitate thoracotomy, REBOA, cardiac wound
repair, transvenous cardiac pacing, etc. Priority of space intended to eligible and interested
LTHET applicants (Gen Surg, EM, Critical Care, etc,) though extra space allocated to any
COMPO, any service current military members.

When: 20  August  0800-1300 hrs

Where: USAF Research Lab at Lackland AFB

Cost:  no charge to participants
Transportation: facilitators will coordinate TMP vans to transport participants from conference
hotel to training site. POV/rental car authorized if available, DoDID required for access to
Lackland AFB.
Participants:  Limited to 16-20 personnel per session.  
1.  Restricted to current military members, any COMPO
2.  Preferentially: AD USA, USAF, & USN PA-Cs who are Baylor EM LTHET edible &
interested
3.  Excess/unused seats offer to any COMPO/any service

Trauma skills lab providing participants interaction with current trauma/resuscitation PA
specialists & EM LTHET Faculty working on common procedures at the BAMC EM Skills Lab,
which executes every month during the BAMC Joint Army-Baylor EM LTHET. Procedures
include ultrasound guided central lines, chest tubes, surgical cricothyrotomy, hemorrhage
control, lateral canthotomy & cantholysis, etc. Advanced procures available depending on
student and facilitator qualifications include resuscitate thoracotomy, REBOA, cardiac wound
repair, transvenous cardiac pacing, etc. Priority of space intended to eligible and interested
LTHET applicants (Gen Surg, EM, Critical Care, etc,) though extra space allocated to any
COMPO, any service current military members.

When: 21  August  0800-1300 hrs

Where: USAF Research Lab at Lackland AFB

Cost:  no charge to participants
Transportation: facilitators will coordinate TMP vans to transport participants from conference
hotel to training site. POV/rental car authorized if available, DoDID required for access to
Lackland AFB.
Participants:  Limited to 16-20 personnel per session.  
1.  Restricted to current military members, any COMPO
2.  Preferentially: AD USA, USAF, & USN PA-Cs who are Baylor EM LTHET edible &
interested
3.  Excess/unused seats offer to any COMPO/any service

33 hours of CME.  All general session lectures will be available to view on this live stream link.  Must be present to view the link live.  The link will be provided via email and on the mobile app one day prior to the event start date on Monday, August 5, 2025.