A Toolkit for Leadership with Good Judgment
Solving Problems for Simulation Leaders
You’ve been told that you’re in charge of a simulation program, but no one has offered you training on what you should do next.
Your simulation training taught you debriefing and case design, but no one taught you about managing finances, people, or logistics.
You’ve spent great effort to hire and train simulation program staff, but somehow they keep leaving, sending you back to square one.
You’re not alone: the Simulation Leadership Intensive is about solving the problems of managing a sim program that no one prepared you for. Whether you are an experienced program leader or a brand new one, our faculty team can guide you forward.
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Eligible CreditsCertificate of Completion
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Course Duration3 Days
Why attend the Simulation Leadership Intensive?
The Simulation Leadership Intensive is a three-day immersive experience for healthcare simulation professionals worldwide who lead simulation programs within health systems or who lead health professions education.
Grounded in the Center for Medical Simulation’s approach to Good Judgment, this course develops the leadership capacity required to guide yourself, your teams, and your organization through complexity and change.
Whether you are a clinician, simulation operations professional, or educator, you will learn alongside a diverse cohort of peers committed to strengthening their leadership practice. Through hands-on practice and structured reflection, you will deepen your ability to lead with curiosity and emotional intelligence, build motivated teams, and cultivate work environments where people can find joy and meaning in their everyday work. You will leave this course with a practical toolkit to lead simulation programs that create and sustainable impact on patient care, professional development, and system performance.
More on our approach to transforming culture through Leadership with Good Judgment:
What will I be ready to do after attending this course?
- Ready to recognize and regulate my emotional and cognitive responses in real time, and choose leadership actions aligned with my values, goals, and the needs of the moment.
- Ready to motivate high performance in my teams by building psychological safety, co-creating clear action plans, and adapting my leadership style to meet the team’s needs in the moment.
- Ready to partner skillfully to create collaborative teams and sustainable simulation programs that influence organizational success.
Who should attend the Simulation Leadership Intensive?
- Simulation program leaders at all experience levels looking to gain practical tools to level up their leadership capabilities
- Simulation managers or directors, operation managers or directors, assistant or associate deans, program leaders looking to advance their leadership acumen
- Simulation fellows who will graduate soon, or graduated recently, looking to move into a leadership role
- Simulation educators seeking to advance their personal and professional development
Apply today!
Simulation Leadership Intensive applicants are admitted on a rolling basis. Space is limited; we encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.
Tuition
Individual Attendee Tuition
$3,500 USD
Course Offerings
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Course Dates
Location
Notes
Monday, August 24, 2026 -
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Center for Medical Simulation (CMS), Boston, MA
Held in person at CMS in Boston, MA.
Policies
Please review the important policy information below.
- Payment
- Cancellations
- Enrollment
- Course
The Center for Medical Simulation accepts payment by credit card, ACH payment, wire transfer, or cashier’s check in U.S. dollars. Personal checks are not accepted. You will be receiving an invoice via email, no paper invoices are issued. Your payment is due immediately upon receipt.
If you have any questions regarding pricing or our policies, please Contact Us.
If you must cancel we will refund your tuition less a processing fee provided another paid candidate is able to fill your seat. Otherwise, you will forfeit half your tuition. If you would like to switch to a course offered at a different date, we will apply your tuition toward the new course provided another paid candidate is able to fill your current seat. Otherwise, you will forfeit half your tuition. If you still want to switch to another course date we will apply half of your paid tuition and you will be billed for the remaining half. Please note that the tuition for a course offered at a later date may be higher. In that case, individuals switching to the later course date will need to pay the difference in the tuition fees.
Processing Fees
- $250 for administration and processing for Healthcare Simulation Essentials: Design and Debriefing course (formerly known as the Comprehensive Instructor Workshop) and Advanced Instructor Course participants
- $100 for administration and processing for MOCA, Anesthesia and Labor and Delivery Crisis Resource Management Training and Gateway Debriefing Skills course participants
If you have any questions regarding pricing or our policies, please Contact Us.
You will be informed of acceptance to your selected course/workshop by email within two weeks of our receiving your completed application. Your tuition is due immediately upon acceptance. Once accepted you will receive another email containing an invoice with payment instructions.
Please note that acceptance does not mean enrollment. Once accepted, you are placed on a wait list.
You are not enrolled, and do not have a reserved seat, until we have received your full tuition. Course seats are filled in the order we receive tuition payments. Since our courses fill quickly it is important for you to send in your tuition immediately to secure a seat.
Once your tuition payment is received, you will be taken off the wait list and enrolled in your desired course/workshop provided a seat is still available. If all seats in your preferred course/workshop are filled by the time we receive your tuition payment, you will be informed that it is full and given the option to remain on the wait list in the event that a seat later become available, switch to another course at a later date with available seats or receive a refund.
If you have any questions regarding pricing or our policies, please Contact Us.
Required to Observe or Participate in the Course
Confidentiality of Information
During your participation in courses run by the Center for Medical Simulation (CMS), you may observe the performance of other individuals managing medical events and debriefing of those events. It is also possible that you may be a participant in these activities. You are asked to maintain and hold confidential all information regarding performance of individuals and details of the simulated cases.
By applying for this course, you acknowledge to having read and understood this statement and agree to maintain the strictest confidentiality about any observations you make regarding the performance of individuals and the simulated cases.
Permission to Review Video Recordings for Educational Purposes
During the course, you may participate in realistic simulated cases of medical events and/or simulated debriefings that may be video recorded for review during debriefings as part of the educational experience. The goal is for the facilitators to provide focused feedback to the team. The faculty may review these recordings at a later date for quality improvement of the training.
By applying for this course, you acknowledge to having read and understood that you may be video recorded in the course and agree to allow CMS faculty to review these video recordings for educational purposes.
If you have any questions regarding pricing or our policies, please Contact Us.