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    ASPIRE Awards

    The ASPIRE award programme aims to highlight, showcase, and exemplify best practices in health professions education.

    The aim of this site is to help you through the process. Below, you'll find all the information you need about the award areas, criteria for success, and the submission and review process.

    ASPIRE awards are non-competitive - all institutions which meet the criteria for excellence are eligible for the award. To this end, we encourage you to chat with colleagues, ask questions, and share best practices. When you're ready, you can make payment and submit your application online.

    Please note that payment must be made in order to access the submission portal. Please contact our team on ASPIRE@amee.org as early as possible if you intend to submit and anticipate any difficulties with making payment by the deadline.



    Applications are closed for the 2025 Awards.

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Simulation

  • Simulation


    Simulation in healthcare education is a “technique, not a technology that replaces or amplifies real experiences with guided experiences that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive manner” (Gaba 2004). Simulation may include a range of technologies and educational contexts that include but are not limited to: simulated (standardized patients), simple and partial task trainers, full body patient mannequins, virtual reality, augmented reality, haptic, hybrid models, and simulated environments. An institution that has achieved excellence in healthcare simulation education ensures it is well-designed (embedded in appropriate educational theory), and integrated into the curriculum, uses it as an adjunct to patient or health systems care training and/or assessment experiences, and provides for outcome driven measures that are continuously evaluated for quality and improvement.