Affinity Groups

The Society for Simulation in Healthcare's Assessment Affinity Group is dedicated to advancing excellence in formative and summative assessment within the field of healthcare simulation. Our mission is to promote the development, dissemination, and implementation of innovative and evidence-based assessment strategies to enhance the effectiveness and impact of healthcare simulation education and training.

Designing Simulation Affinity Group is a place to gather simulation educators, coordinators, specialists, learning experience designers, instructional designers, and anyone else who designs simulation or wants to know more about how to design simulations that are effective, measurable, and learner centered.

The mission of the Disaster simulation Affinity Group is to provide a forum for discussion of ideas, challenges, and solutions related to the simulation of disaster scenarios to improve individual, group, and systemic responses to disasters. It would also seek to appeal to all levels and approaches to disaster simulation, allowing for new and experienced educators from all backgrounds and training to be able to learn, share, and mentor each other. This will allow any willing educator to be able to train their learners in disaster response, despite variations in infrastructure, training, and budget.

The mission of the Distance Simulation Affinity Group is to provide a forum for educators to discuss distance simulation education and research.

The mission of the Emergency Medical Services Affinity Group is to leverage the power of effective simulation methodologies, emerging technologies and evidence-based practice to help Emergency Medical Services’ professions to accept, adopt, and develop simulation-based education, assessment, research, and health systems integration.

The mission of the Federal Medical Simulation Training Consortium Affinity Group is to provide a forum for educators and operators in the US federal health system (Departments of Defense, Veterans Administration, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security) and healthcare personnel of foreign military organizations to engage in networking, research, and dissemination of best practices in healthcare simulation.

The mission of the Healthcare Systems Modeling & Simulation Affinity Group is to develop and use modeling and computer simulation resources with a systems engineering-based approach to design and evaluate (system) solutions that will improve patient safety, quality of care, and cost effectiveness in healthcare.

The mission of the Internal Medicine Affinity Group is to promote and advance medical simulation at all levels of internal medicine/general medicine education for the benefit of patients and practitioners.

No details about this affinity group have been provided.

The mission of the Low-cost & Low-resource Affinity Group is to enhance patient care by directly addressing the challenges in providing simulation-based training with extremely limited resources.

No details about this affinity group have been provided.

The primary goal of the Neurology in Simulation Affinity Group is to create a community for neurology educators and trainees interested in simulation to share ideas and collaborate.

The mission of the New to Simulation Affinity Group is to enable simulationists to engage and onboard content expert faculty to the use of simulation as instructional media.

The mission of the Patient Safety and Simulation Collaborative Affinity Group is to encourage collaboration and partnerships between simulation and patient safety leaders and novices alike.

The Psychological Safety in Healthcare Simulation Affinity Group provides a platform for simulation educators to share their knowledge and skills in creating, maintaining, and evaluating psychological safety within simulated environments and allow collaborative research to advance the science of psychological safety in healthcare simulation-based education.

The mission of the Rehabilitation Affinity Group is to foster collaboration using simulation best practice standards to enhance the quality of rehabilitation across the continuum of care.

The mission of the Respiratory Care Affinity Group is to provide a collaborative space for respiratory therapists and healthcare professionals interested in respiratory care and mechanical ventilation simulation. We aim to advance the practice of respiratory care within healthcare simulation by fostering education, sharing best practices, promoting research, and advocating for the integration of simulation into respiratory care training and practice.

The direction of the Resilience Engineering and Safety II Affinity Group is that it will foster the use of simulation to explore and implement modern safety sciences in healthcare with the aim of improving patient outcomes.

The mission of this affinity group is to expand simulation in dentistry by bringing dental simulation champions together to share knowledge, expertise, and resources.  It is a place for Dental professionals and all simulation and healthcare professionals who work with dental teams to develop and implement dental simulation programs.

The mission of this affinity group is to expand simulation in dentistry by bringing dental simulation champions together to share knowledge, expertise, and resources.  It is a place for Dental professionals and all simulation and healthcare professionals who work with dental teams to develop and implement dental simulation programs.

The mission of the Super-Sized Simulation Centers Affinity Group is to provide a forum for individuals working in and running large simulation centers to share ideas and solutions pertaining to the unique needs, challenges, and benefits of running super-sized simulation centers/programs.

The Value-Based Simulation Affinity Group seeks to demonstrate and make visible the value that simulation-based interventions provide to healthcare institutions. By creating collaborations between simulation programs already engaged in this work and those new to the process, we will leverage collective expertise and experience in value-based simulation for the betterment of the global healthcare simulation community.