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The Society for Simulation in Healthcare
A new society, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), was established in January 2004 to represent the rapidly growing group of educators and researchers who utilize a variety of simulation techniques for education, testing, and research in health care. The membership, now over 2,000, is united by its desire to improve performance and reduce errors in patient care using all types of simulation including task trainers, human patient simulators, virtual reality, and standardized patients.
We are a broad-based, multi-disciplinary, multi-specialty, international society with ties to all medical specialties, nursing, allied health paramedical personnel, and industry. A major venue for advancing simulation in medicine is the annual International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (formerly IMMS) that has been held successfully since 1995. SSH beginning in 2006 has wholly sponsored this meeting.
SSH welcomes ties with other organizations interested in patient simulation. Recognizing that simulation represents a paradigm shift in health care education, SSH promotes improvements in simulation technology, educational methods, practitioner assessment, and patient safety that promote better patient care and can improve patient outcome.
Mission of the Society: the SSH will lead in facilitating excellence in (multi-specialty) health care education, practice, and research through simulation modalities.
Society for Simulation in Healthcare
PMB 310
1355 S Frontage Road #360A
Hastings, MN 55033
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2009 IMSH
January 10-14, 2009
Lake Buena Vista, FL
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