IMSH 2027 CBE Forum

IMSH 2027
The CBE Overture: A Consensus Forum on Simulation in CBE

January 22-23, 2027 | New Orleans, Louisiana

Competency-based education (CBE) asks programs to show that learners can perform, not only that they finished the coursework. Simulation is well suited to that. In many programs, though, simulation sits outside the competency framework, run as separate activities instead of planned across the curriculum.

The CBE Overture brings educators, simulation operations professionals, learners, leaders, scholars, and corporate partners together to work on that problem. Participants will develop consensus recommendations for simulation-grounded competency-based education (SG-CBE), which will inform the continued development of the SG-CBE framework.

Register for the CBE Forum

Two days at a glance

Friday

Opening plenary

The full forum starts together.

Friday

Choose a track

Four foundational breakouts, then reports to the full room.

Friday evening

Reception

With the SSH Board of Directors.

Saturday

Bring your perspective

Five role-based groups, one shared question, then reports.

Saturday

Synthesis

The groups' work comes together into recommendations.

Friday: Choose your track

Each track is a breakout group. You'll pick one.

1

Integrating Simulation Across the Competency-Based Curriculum

Mapping simulation to outcome competencies and placing it across the curriculum to develop and assess the abilities needed for safe, effective practice.

2

Simulation Across Developmental Stages

Using simulation experiences that increase in complexity, responsibility, and learner independence over time.

3

Simulation for Adaptive Competency Development

Using learner performance data, deliberate practice, mastery learning, coaching, and different simulation modalities to support individualized learning pathways with common outcome expectations.

4

Simulation as Competency-Focused Instruction

Defining the instructional practices of competency-focused simulation, including prebriefing, facilitation, feedback, debriefing, reflection, deliberate practice, reassessment, and faculty development.

Saturday: Bring your perspective

You'll join the group that matches your role or interests:

Learners

Faculty and Teachers

Educational Leaders, Scholars, and Administrators

Simulation Operations Professionals and Directors

Patients and Populations

The groups will discuss how simulation evidence can support feedback, progression, entrustment, remediation, and readiness-for-practice decisions, and how to protect psychological safety, equity, and the learning function of simulation in the process.

What you'll leave with

A clearer understanding of how CBE differs from time- and content-based education

A framework for deciding where, when, and how simulation fits into competency development and assessment

Strategies for using simulation data alongside workplace-based and other assessment data

A realistic sense of the faculty skills, infrastructure, policies, and safeguards SG-CBE requires

Connections with colleagues across professions and roles

A say in the consensus recommendations

Schedule

Friday, January 22

1:00–2:00 p.m.	Opening session and forum plenary
2:00–2:15 p.m.	Break and transition to breakout rooms
2:15–3:30 p.m.	Breakout session on the four foundational SG-CBE tracks
3:30–3:45 p.m.	Break and transition to the large-group session
3:45–5:00 p.m.	Large-group breakout reports and discussion
5:00–5:15 p.m.	Day 1 closing session
5:30–7:00 p.m.	Cocktail reception for attendees and the SSH Board of Directors

Saturday, January 23

7:30–8:15 a.m.	Continental breakfast
8:30–9:15 a.m.	Day 1 recap, introduction to programmatic assessment, and Day 2 instructions
9:15–9:30 a.m.	Transition to participant-lens breakout rooms
9:30–10:45 a.m.	Programmatic assessment breakout: Simulation as a Source of Longitudinal Competency Data
10:45–11:00 a.m.	Break and transition to the large-group session
11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.	Large-group reports from participant-lens breakouts
12:15–12:45 p.m.	Forum synthesis, wrap-up, and questions

Who should attend

Simulation educators and faculty, simulation operations professionals and directors, educational leaders, administrators, scholars, learners, and corporate partners.