If you work in healthcare simulation and you're not an SSH member, what are you missing?
Not in dollars — membership is tiered by career stage and structured to be accessible at every level of the profession. The real question is what's happening around you while you're not in the room.
The standards that define quality simulation practice were built by SSH members. The research in Simulation in Healthcare is produced by SSH members. The CHSE and CHSOS credentials that carry real weight in hiring decisions were developed by SSH members. The education programming at IMSH — drawn from more than 1,600 submissions for IMSH 2026! — is created, reviewed, and selected by SSH members. This is a community that is actively building the field, and membership is how you participate in that work rather than receive it secondhand.
There is also the day-to-day value that is easy to underestimate. SSH's 43 community groups — Sections, Special Interest Groups, and Affinity Groups — exist because simulationists working in the same specialty, the same role, or the same career stage have specific things to talk about that broader programming doesn't always reach. SimConnect gives you access to that conversation year-round, not just during conference season. The Simulation in Healthcare journal, member pricing on certification and accreditation applications, priority registration for limited-enrollment workshops — these are practical returns on a membership that compounds the more you use it.
The members who engage most fully are the ones who show up — for a Section meeting, a SimConnect thread, a Calls for Service opportunity, an IMSH session they weren't sure about. SSH membership opens the door. What's on the other side of it is a community of 5,400+ professionals in nearly 70 countries who are doing the same work you are, thinking through the same problems, and building toward the same goals.
Come be part of it!
Explore membership options and current pricing at ssih.org/ssh-membership-pricing, or join and renew at ssih.org/join-login-renew.
Ashley Grossman
SSH Director of Membership
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SSH Membership — Tiered Pricing for Every Career Stage
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