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An international list of simulation centers and contact information.

About SSH

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. (http://www.ssih.org/SSIH/SSIH/Home/AboutSSH/Default.aspx)

The website for the Gender and Health Collaborative Curriculum Project features three key resources undergraduate medical students:

1. Introduction Module to teach students to understand the difference between gender and health, become familiar with the language and concepts necessary to apply a gender perspective to common health care problems, understand gender as a social determinant of health and understand that a gender perspective can deepen our understanding of health and health care.

2. Application Modules to allow students to apply concepts of gender and health to common medical problems and provide examples of how to apply a gender perspective to a specific area of medicine.

3. Tool Kit is to help students to make the step from cognitive change to behavioural change, and help students understand how they can practice from a gender and health perspective.