There is a question I think about often in my role: what does SSH owe to a simulation professional who spends time engaging with our education offerings?
The answer I keep coming back to is this: we owe them the best content available in the field, delivered in a way that is immediately applicable to their work.
That is a standard, not just a value, and I want to be specific about how we hold ourselves to it.
Every education offering SSH produces — whether a one-hour SimSeries webinar, a Best Practices Workshop, CHSE & CHSOS Courses, or IMSH content — goes through a rigorous development and review process. Our subject matter experts are active practitioners in healthcare simulation.
They are not teaching from a distance. They are in simulation centers, running debriefs, designing scenarios, training faculty, and doing the work that they then bring into the classroom.
At IMSH 2026, the education team reviewed 1,670 session submissions to build a program of more than 800 accepted sessions. That acceptance rate reflects a real quality threshold, not a polite acknowledgment of submission volume. The sessions that make it into the IMSH program are the ones our review process determined would genuinely advance the knowledge and practice of the attendees.
That same standard applies to everything else we build. SimSeries presenters are vetted. Workshop facilitators are experienced practitioners. Cohort program curriculum is built to the same blueprints that govern SSH's certification exams.
I say all of this not to position SSH against other education providers. There is good work being done across the field. I say it because I believe our members and prospective members deserve to know exactly what they are investing in when they engage with SSH education.
What they are investing in is the most rigorous, practitioner-built, field-relevant healthcare simulation education available anywhere.
Explore SSH's full education calendar at ssih.org/simseries-webinars, the Live Learning Center at pathlms.com/ssh, and our complete offerings at ssih.org.
Until next time ... here's to SSH Education!
Trenell Croskey, BS, MCHM
SSH Director of Continuing Education