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Healthcare Simulation Conferences & Workshops

โ€ŒHealthcare Simulation conferences are an absolute must for healthcare professionals who seek to start or expand their institution’s clinical simulation programs. As there are very few educational pathways for Medical Simulation professionals, participation in healthcare simulation conferences like SimGHOSTS, IMSH or INACSL is a crucial step in the development or expansion of the healthcare simulation institution’s program and development of individual and team members’ professional careers.

The How to Get the Most Out of Your First Healthcare Simulation Conference article is a great article to read in preparation for a healthcare simulation conference attendance. The international clinical simulation community is incredibly generous to share resources and help for other areas as required. Healthcare simulation conferences are an excellent way to be able to see what other clinical simulation professionals are up to, hot topics and new concepts and ideas.

Healthcare simulation conferences are also a great opportunity for those who work in clinical simulation to be able to showcase their work and receive feedback from renowned leaders in healthcare simulation. Presentation at a healthcare simulation conference allows individuals and teams the opportunity to be able to plan, prepare and deliver a number of different clinical simulation conference presentations such as talks and workshops. The ability to present in this manner takes a lot of practice and is a great skill to acquire.

Networking is one of the best parts of attendance at a healthcare simulation conference. Speak to as many people as possible to be able to meet new people in the healthcare simulation industry. Go to the conference with questions and interests at the forefront of mind to share and network with others over. Collect business cards and allow others to introduce other people of interest as well. Be brave and talk to a favorite speaker and share the impact that their presentation has had. There may be opportunities to link in with other centers for research and collaborations to do with healthcare simulation. Be sure to express interest and ask questions.

There are plenty of fantastic global conferences coming up in 2024 that provide a range of focused healthcare simulation learning, networking, and vendor engagement opportunities, so save the dates for these special events listed below. Previous annual events are summarized in the drop-down fields at the bottom of the page.

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Elevate Healthcare

Human Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) Conferences
(Various Dates & Countries Each Year)

The Elevate Healthcare (formerly CAE Healthcare) Human Patient Simulation Network conferences are held throughout the year. They include premiere patient simulation events and networking conferences all over the world. Each meeting is uniquely designed to bring end-users, vendors, simulation program managers, medical professionals, trainees, and specialists together with thought leaders, influencers, and innovators in the healthcare simulation industry. Whatever a professional’s expertise, discipline, or clinical niche, there’s certain to be an event they won’t want to miss!

Laerdal SUN Conferences


Laerdal Medicalโ€™s Regional SUN Events
March 24th-25th, 2026 – Atlanta, Georgia

The Simulation User Network (SUN) Conference draws over 300 user network members to each meeting. It serves as a platform for collaboration, innovation and simulation advancements that lead to improvements in education and healthcare delivery. The SUN Conference is a place to meet others who have objectives in simulation just like yours and connect with industry-leading experts. You’ll experience best practices and hands-on demonstrations that help advance simulation training programs across all healthcare disciplines.

WISER


UPMC WISER Simulation Center Courses
(Various Dates Throughout the Year)

The Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER) is a world-class multidisciplinary training and research facility supporting education, training, and patient safety initiatives at UPMC. WISER is an institute of the University of Pittsburgh with a mission to conduct research and training programs utilizing simulation-based education to provide a safer environment for patients of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and its affiliates. WISER offers several courses and programs to help those in the simulation community improve their skills. Their iSIM course is offered in various worldwide locations and has had preceptors from all over the world spend time watching and learning at WISER.

NLN Summit 2023
NLN Education Summit 2026
September 23-25, 2026 – Washington, DC

The NLN Education Summit brings together nurse educators from around the world to explore trending and emerging topics impacting the nursing education profession and to discover innovative strategies and solutions that address day-to-day challenges. Having demonstrated exceptional flexibility, adaptability, and courage, nurse educators continue to be called to engage local, national, and global communities, inspire others to act, and build partnerships that co-create health equity and social justice. This Summit will examine nursing’s past, make connections to the present, and lead nursing’s future as the NLN reimagines nursing education.

SimGHOSTS
SimGHOSTS Hands-on Simulation Technology Conferences
SimGHOSTS Events
May 28-29, 2026 – El Paso, Texas, USA
August 4-7, 2026 – Saginaw, Michigan, USA

SimGHOSTS’ mission is to support individuals and institutions using healthcare simulation technology and spaces through hands on training, online resources and professional development. Their goal is to empower their community to increase adoption and better utilize simulation technologies to improve learning and patient care outcomes. SimGHOSTS was founded as โ€œGOT SIMโ€ in 2011 by Lance Baily, then Director of the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas. Having served as a Sim Tech, Lance recognized the need for a specialized event which specifically focused on bringing simulation operational teams together. His deans recognized the opportunity to showcase their center and support the emerging profession and were thrilled that almost 100 attendees participated in the first event. The community overwhelmingly demanded the event be continued annually and has since produced over 25 events all over the world across multiple regions including the united States, Middle East, Australia, UK, EU, and South America.

SESAM

Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM) Annual Meetings
June 17-19, 2026 – Lyon, France

SESAM‘s mission is to encourage and support the use of simulation in healthcare for the purpose of training and research. SESAMโ€™s core mission is to develop a sustainable inter-professional community of practice across Europe that strives to advance knowledge, improve quality and promote access to healthcare simulation. SESAMโ€™s vision is improved healthcare through simulation. Enabling safe, patient-centered care delivered by a competent and confident healthcare workforce in a well-functioning healthcare system. In order to achieve their mission and vision, they have developed a strategy with 5 strategic goals, each with specific objectives and implementation plans.

International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Conference 2026
June 10th – 13th, 2026 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The INACSL Conference is a leading forum for simulation aficionados, researchers, and vendors providing the ideal environment to gain and disseminate current, state-of-the-art knowledge in the areas of skills/simulation operations and applications in an evidenced-based venue. Healthcare professionals will have the opportunity to network with colleagues and exhibitors, discuss best practices as they relate to competencies, safety, and quality performance indicators, and advance the science of simulation.

iSIM Course
iSIM Courses By UPMC WISER, UM GCRME, and UH SimTiki
(Various Dates Throughout the Year)

These 3-day internationally renowned workshop programs, created in a collaborative effort between WISER at the University of Pittsburgh and the Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education at the University of Miami, is designed as an introduction to fundamental skills and abilities for delivering simulation-based healthcare education through a variety of techniques and technologies. The program emphasizes hands-on activities and active participation to maximize simulation-based instruction skill acquisition. Class group sizes are kept small to allow for maximum participation. The primary audience for this course is healthcare educators wishing to improve their skills as instructors in simulation education.

ISQua
International Society for Quality in Health Care
September 27th – 30th, 2026 – Dublin, Ireland

ISQua conferences provide a platform for like-minded peers to network, share their ideas, and foster innovation all in the hope to improve and support safe health care worldwide. ISQua is a member-based, not-for-profit community and organisation dedicated to promoting quality improvement in health care. They have been working to improve the quality and safety of health care worldwide for over 30 years. They aim to achieve their goal through education, knowledge sharing, external evaluation, supporting health systems worldwide and connecting like-minded people through their health care networks. Their extensive network of health care professionals spans over 70 countries and 6 continents. ISQua’s members are continually working towards quality improvement in health care around the world.

Simulation Canada SIM Expo
November 9th – 10th, 2026 – Halifax, NS, Canada

SIM Expo continues to be the largest interprofessional and multidisciplinary simulation conference in Canada! Each year, the SIM Expo brings together healthcare leaders in university, college, hospital, emergency services, and community care sectors. Their participants are deans, administrators, educators, clinicians, SIM centre managers and directors, and researchers from all health professions. Most participants are Canadian but it is an open conference and each year they are honored to host some international participants.

NZASH
New Zealand Association for Simulation in Healthcare Conference
November 26th – 28th, 2026 – Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand

NZASH was incorporated as a Society in 2004 after an initial simulation interest group meeting in Hamilton, New Zealand. In brief, the Society aims to provide: a coordinating network for collaboration on healthcare simulation activities in NZ, including research representation of the views of members on healthcare simulation educational support and resource information for providers of healthcare simulation, including educational meetings a forum for national issues including standards, funding and other associated matters.

ASPIH Conference

Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH UK) Annual Conference
November 25th – 27th, 2026 – Harrogate, UK

ASPiH is a non-profit membership association comprising of members drawn from healthcare, education, and patient safety backgrounds including researchers, learning technologists, workforce development or education managers, administrators, and healthcare staff and students. All have a genuine interest in new and innovative methods of learning, as well as optimizing the use of existing simulation resources within their practice. Their membership bridges undergraduate and pre-registration education as well as postgraduate and post-registration training and ongoing CPD for all of the health and social care workforce. Dates for the organization‘s 2022 annual event have not yet been announced, but HealthySimulation.com will post details as soon as they’re available.

IPSS International Pediatric Simulation Society
International Pediatric Society for Simulation (IPSS) Symposium
May 4th – 7th, 2026 – Rome, Italy

Renowned global experts gather annually for the worldโ€™s largest meeting dedicated exclusively to pediatric and perinatal simulation. Over three days, attendees discuss the role simulation plays to provide safe and effective care to sick children and infants, and the continued evolution and expansion of pediatric simulation across the globe. Participants can learn about the latest advancements in pediatric and neonatal simulation from experts and see the highest quality simulators in the market.  Dates for IPSSW2022 have not yet been announced, but HealthySimulation.com will post details as soon as they are available.

Simulation Australasia
August 17th – 19th, 2027– Adelaide Convention Centre, Australia

Simulation Australasia brings together industry professionals, government, and those interested in Simulation to allow for discussion and distribution of information through events and collaboration. The organization promotes the advancement of research, development, and use of simulation technologies and practices in society, industry, academia, and government. Simulation Australasia also advocates for standards and recognition of core competencies to enhance credibility and build trust. The organization promotes continuous research and development of modeling and simulation capabilities to foster innovative, and safer communities

IVRHA

10th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium
February 27th – March 1st, 2026 – Tampa Bay, Florida

This conference will be held at Penn Medicine (3400 Civic Center Blvd.) and will provide a forum to collaborate and partner with healthcare leaders to enable the creation of larger data sets. The goal is to foster partnership and collaboration in healthcare while providing a strong focus on providing unique content and perspectives from across the healthcare spectrum. There will also be a strong focus on providing new emerging voices from across the ecosystem: care, technology, research, and policy.

Operational Medicine Symposium & Technology Showcase
March 17th – 18th, 2026 – San Antonio, TX

The 5th Annual Operational Medicine Symposium (OpMed) & Technology Showcase is one of the largest and most influential military medical events in North America for senior medical officials, clinicians, government leaders, and solution providers. OpMed offers the unique opportunity to learn, network, and engage with military medical professionals in an information-driven, networking-focused environment.

Western States Simulation Alliance (WSSA)
2027 Conference Announcing Soon
(Formerly Known as the California Simulation Alliance)
Various Workshops & Conferences Throughout the Year

The California Simulation Alliance (CSA) is undergoing a transformation into the Western States Simulation Alliance (WSSA) beginning in November 2025. This transformation will allow individuals, organizations, and associations from California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and Hawaiโ€™i to collaborate, contribute, and take advantage of offerings, resources, and other benefits across the western states.

Patient Safety Movement
12th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit
February 27th, 2026 – Irvine, California

Every year, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation convenes the World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, a global conference on patient safety featuring multidisciplinary sessions and keynotes by renowned experts in their fields. Every year, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation convenes the World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, a global conference on patient safety featuring multidisciplinary sessions and keynotes by renowned experts in their fields.

FLASIC – Federacion Latinoamericana de Simulacion Clinica y Seguridad del Paciente
2027 Event Announcing Soon!

FLASIC began in 2007 as ALASIC, the Latin American Society for Simulation in Healthcare before renaming in 2017. FLASIC’s mission is to promote the research, application and development of the strategy of training of scientific and healthcare simulation for professionals of health sciences in Latin America. A significant contribution to this mission is publication of the Latin American Journal of Clinical Simulation.

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SIMPACT
Next Event Announcing Soon!

Welcome to SIMPACT: New Horizons in Simulation! Pakistan’s SIMPACT is AKU’s first-ever international conference dedicated to harnessing the power of simulation-based education for a safer, more skilled healthcare future each year. โ€‹The team at AKU believes in fostering a vibrant community of medical simulation professionals โ€“ students, educators, experts, and industry leaders โ€“ united by a shared goal: advancing patient care and promoting patient safety.โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

S3 Singapore Healthcare Simulation Conference 2025

S3 Singapore
Next Event Announcing Soon!

Hosted by the SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Medical Simulation (SIMS) and jointly organized with Society for Simulation in Europe (SESAM) and The Gathering of Healthcare Simulation Technology Specialists (SimGHOSTS), the S3 Conference is be held in Singapore every other year! Gathering the brightest minds and ideas in healthcare simulation, the highly anticipated conference will showcase the wide spectrum of healthcare simulation capabilities and applications pertinent across various domains of education today, with the aim of strengthening the expertise of healthcare professionals and propelling patient care standards, in anticipation of future needs.

HTIC 2026 Healthcare Training International Conference
March 26th – 28th, 2026 – Rabat, Morocco

The Healthcare Training International Conference (HTIC) returns for its 5th edition, marking a new stage in reflection, exchange, and innovation in healthcare training. Organized by Morocco Sim, in partnership with the International University of Rabat, HTIC 2026 has established itself as a key event for pedagogy, technology, and simulation applied to healthcare. This edition is exceptional, hosting for the first time the 1st Pan-Arab Conference on Healthcare Simulation, the 1st Hackathon dedicated to Medical Education, and SimTech 2026, the 1st Congress of Healthcare Simulation Technicians, a true forum for exchanging and promoting technical skills in service of training and patient safety. Focused on collaboration, creativity, and excellence, HTIC 2026 will bring together teachers, researchers, clinicians, engineers, students, and policymakers around a common goal: transforming healthcare education to better prepare the professionals of tomorrow. It aims to be a space for inspiration and convergence, where science, technology, and humanity meet, in a shared vision of safer, more innovative, and more inclusive healthcare.

aspe

ASPE Annual Conference
June 21 โ€“ 24, 2026 – St. Louis, MO

The Association for SP Educators Annual Conference provides a space where a community of Standardized Patients, Simulated Patients, clinical simulation educators, researchers, creators, and practitioners can share their practice of turning visions into reality through human simulation. Join this event to explore the ASPE Standards of Best Practice and SP methodology, discover innovative ways to incorporate new ideas into your own practice, experience the latest in Human Simulation technology from sponsors, and connect in person with some of the best in the field of Standardized Patient education.

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