TexMed 2025 Unveils New CME, Tailored Offerings to Attendees at All Career Levels
By Alisa Pierce

Evolving to meet members’ needs, TexMed 2025 will bring attendees new CME submitted by physician peers, exciting presentations from keynote speakers, and innovative offerings geared to physicians at every medical career stage.  

Established physicians can bolster their clinical and professional skills with CME and find resources in the bustling Expo Hall, featuring vendor exhibits of new products and services to enhance their practices. Meanwhile, students and residents have opportunities to network at the returning Specialty Showcase or while displaying their research alongside physicians in the poster session. 

With its theme Advocate, Educate, Innovate, this year’s conference will continue using a revamped event schedule after members expressed difficulty attending CME presentations and other activities later in the day. That change – implemented with input from the Texas Medical Association’s speaker and vice speaker of the House of Delegates (HOD) last year – features the HOD and opening general session CME Friday morning instead of Friday afternoon, followed by reference committee meetings at noon.  

“TexMed’s ability to shift to meet members’ needs is why the conference gets better and better every year,” Marble Falls ophthalmologist Kelly Green, MD, a member of TMA’s Council on Member Experience and current president of Burnet-Lampasas-Llano County Medical Society, told Texas Medicine.

Streamlined experience

Members will begin their TexMed 2025 experience with a new badging system designed to expedite navigation of the event and provide feedback to improve future TexMed events. The change, which TMA’s Board of Trustees approved last year, was created to circumvent the somewhat lengthy process of member check-ins before the conference.   

This year, members can save time at check-in by utilizing a QR code – included in their TexMed registration confirmation – at the event’s quick scan kiosk. There, they can print their new badge at the self-service station before heading into the HOD’s opening session. 

The badge will allow TMA to record CME credit on behalf of members. To ensure accurate credit, please:   

• Wear the conference badge at all times.   

• Have the badge scanned as you enter each CME session.   

• If you attend multiple sessions in the same room, have your badge re-scanned before each session begins.  

High-profile presentations

TexMed 2025’s CME-eligible opening session – at 8 am on Friday, May 9 – will feature radiologist Alex Oshmyansky, MD, who took on unfair drug pricing by founding the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. With HOD opening immediately after, TexMed attendees are invited to stay for house business, and also are free to explore the Expo Hall followed by concurrent CME sessions. 

TexMed will close with another CME-eligible presentation by YouTube sensation and philanthropist “Dr. Mike.” Family physician Mikhail “Mike” Varshavski went viral in 2015 for medically themed entertainment videos debunking false medical claims. This addition to the schedule follows the success of TexMed 2024’s full house presentation by hugely popular ophthalmologist and social media star Will Flanary, MD, also known as Dr. Glaucomflecken. 

Dr. Green adds the convention’s other CME offerings are tailored each year to respond to emerging trends in medicine. To achieve that goal, TMA called upon its members last year to submit CME programming suggestions for TexMed 2025, planning to offer multiple programming tracks centered on:  

• Leadership and professional development; 

• Physician health and wellness; 

• Population health and public health; and 

• Business of medicine, such as practice help and management, health technologies, and practice quality improvement, and career management. 

Something for everyone

Moreover, TexMed 2025 also will offer: 

• The Specialty Showcase, a networking event that will provide medical students the opportunity to converse with experienced physicians; 

• Specialty society presentations; and 

• The CME-eligible poster session, which will display published work of medical students, residents, and physicians during the conference. 

For social opportunities, members can attend: 

• An all-conference mixer, scheduled for Thursday evening, hosted by all sections and sponsored by TMA Insurance Trust; and  

• The TMA Foundation’s 32nd annual gala, which last year raised more than $475,000 for TMA outreach programs. 

Registration for TMA members, CMS and association staff, and Alliance members is free – one of the many benefits of annual membership. A $25 registration fee will be charged for on-site registrants. Register today.