Those looking for Healthcare Simulation conferences in 2024 should be sure to check out HealthySimulation.com’s Comprehensive Global List Page of Clinical Simulation Conferences, which was recently updated with all the latest information about conferences and workshops taking place in 2024. Connect with medical simulation peers, learn from global nursing simulation experts, and witness the latest surgical simulation technologies at some of the featured events listed below, or check out our conference listing page for every notable event. Don’t see your event on the events page? Email us and we will update our resource!

CAE Healthcare’s Human Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) Conferences
Various Dates & Countries Each Year

CAE Healthcare’s impressive 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 Medical’s Regional SUN Events
Various Dates & Countries Each Year

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.

8th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium
February 29 – March 3, 2024 in Tampa Bay, Florida

This VR-focused 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 25 – 26, 2024 in 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.

International Pediatric Society for Simulation (IPSS) Symposium
May 7-9, 2024 in Denver, Colorado

Renowned global experts gather annually for the world’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.

International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Conference 2024
June 12 – 15, 2024 in Raleigh, NC

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.

Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM) Annual Meetings
SESAM Prague 2024
June 19 – 21, 2024 in Prague, Czech Republic

SESAM’s mission is to encourage and support the use of simulation in healthcare for the purpose of training and research. SESAM’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. SESAM’s vision is improved healthcare through simulation. Enabling safe, patient-centred 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. It is envisioned that the strategy will be reviewed annually at the SESAM Annual Retreat to ensure it remains fit for purpose and responds to new challenges. SESAM will host the organization’s 28th Annual Meeting of the Society from June 14 to 16, 2023. The meeting will take place face-to-face in Libson, Portugal.

SimGHOSTS Hands-on Simulation Technology Operations Conferences
August 6-9, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana

Join hundreds of Simulation Champions from around the world at our annual international hands-on training events! The “Gathering of Healthcare Simulation Technology Specialists” which will be operating in its eighth year as a US-based non-profit 501(c)3 organization based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. SimGHOSTS events provide a meeting place for you to exchange ideas and network with technical peers as well as receive specialized training in the design, selection, and application of healthcare simulation technologies. You will also have opportunities to meet with simulation-based vendors to engage with the latest in healthcare education technology.

NLN Education Summit 2024
September 18-20, 2024 in San Antonio, Texas

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.

International Society for Quality in Health Care
September 24 – 27, 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey

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.

Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH UK) Annual Conference
November 3-5, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland

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.

New Zealand Association for Simulation in Healthcare Conference
November 14 & 15, 2024 in Christ Church, 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.

Simulation Canada SIM Expo
November 25-26, 2024 in Banff, Canada

The 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.

UPMC WISER Simulation Center Courses
(Administration, Sim Tech Ops, Debriefing, Center Design & More)
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.

Simulation Australasia
2024 Events to be Announced

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.

California Simulation Alliance (CSA)
Various Workshops & Conferences Throughout the Year

In 2008, HealthImpact founded the California Simulation Alliance (CSA) to network and support interdisciplinary healthcare educators in California and beyond. Increasingly, healthcare professionals are utilizing multiple types of simulation in pre-licensure schools to provide a high-quality clinical experiences and in hospitals to improve patient care and teamwork. The CSA’s mission is to strengthen expertise in simulation and advocate for simulation policy through interprofessional education, collaboration, and evidence-based practice.

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Lance Baily, BA, EMT-B, is the Founder / CEO of HealthySimulation.com, which he started in 2010 while serving as the Director of the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas. Lance also founded SimGHOSTS.org, the world’s only non-profit organization dedicated to supporting professionals operating healthcare simulation technologies. His co-edited Book: “Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Operations, Technology, and Innovative Practice” is cited as a key source for professional certification in the industry. Lance’s background also includes serving as a Simulation Technology Specialist for the LA Community College District, EMS fire fighting, Hollywood movie production, rescue diving, and global travel. He and his wife live with their two brilliant daughters and one crazy dachshund in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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