In March 2026, world-renowned Regional Anesthesia faculty experts from the University of North Carolina, Duke University, the University of VA, Wake Forest University and the University of Alberta, Canada, came together in Chapel Hill, NC, to lead and teach at the American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) Pain Medicine’s 2026 Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Course. For the first time, the University of North Carolina hosted this ASRA technical skills CME course in 2026, attracting 60+ physician learners from across the U.S. (including UNC School of Medicine faculty). Every year, this course offers non-regional anesthesiologists the opportunity to intensively learn ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia techniques that may be vital to positive outcomes in the clinical scenarios they encounter.
The instructive success of this annual course relies upon silent cadaver teachers that allow for applied anatomy (dissected areas of practice/learning) to teach ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia techniques. Using cadavers dissected at Roper Hall on Day 1, course leaders spent the remaining two course days reviewing with rotating groups of learners how to correlate applied anatomy with ultrasound-guided needling, and how conduct ultrasound scanning of live models. After gaining hands-on practice, discussing clinical scenarios were also critical for course participants to understand ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia medical practice.