AAOMS endorses the following simulation programs – through Aug. 1, 2025 – as equivalent alternatives to the AAOMS National Simulation Program. Completion of any one of these equivalent courses – or the AAOMS Office-Based Emergency Airway Management (OBEAM) module – satisfies the necessary simulation training to maintain AAOMS membership.
- ADSA High Fidelity Simulation Course
- Oral Surgeons’ Airway Simulation and Medical Emergencies Course by Emergency Medical Consultants
- Ohio Dental Society of Anesthesiology: Advanced Airway and Emergency Airway Management
- Dental Simulation Specialists
- Rutgers School of Dental Medicine: Office-Based Emergency Airway Management: A Simulation Course
- U.S. Army: Office Based Emergency Airway Management Course
Course accessible to surgeons in the Department of Defense only
Location: Andersen Simulation Center, Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash.
Questions? Contact the course director Col. Marc M. Serra, DDS, FACS, Deputy Director of Surgical Simulation, at [email protected]. - University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
Recognition and management of airway problems: a simulation course
Upcoming Course Dates:
Dec. 4, 2025
March 11, 2026
Oct. 14, 2026
Modules: online and hands on
Course Director: Allan S. Shaw, DDS
[email protected]
Location: University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa. - Anesthesia Simulation Training for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (ASTOMS)
Course Director: Sharon Aronovich, DMD, FACS
Course Coordinator: Marina Zupelari [email protected]
Location: University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. - Basic Airway Skills During Emergencies (BASE) Course
Course Director: Kamal F. Busaidy, DDS, FDSRCS (Eng), FACS
[email protected]
Location: Houston, Texas
Verification of compliance of successful anesthesia simulation training should be completed through the Office Anesthesia Evaluation (OAE) program.
AAOMS now offers its OBEAM didactic curriculum to support non-AAOMS hands-on simulation training. Programs lacking a didactic instruction component can recommend that participants purchase the AAOMS-developed material to ensure adherence of the simulation training needed for AAOMS membership.
Note: AAOMS members completing an equivalency program without a didactic portion must complete both the AAOMS didactic instruction and the AAOMS-endorsed hands-on simulation equivalency program to fulfill AAOMS membership. Participants registering for AAOMS’s OBEAM module should not purchase this separate didactic curriculum, as it is already integrated into the AAOMS program.
