Purpose: Consistent with growing innovations in healthcare, expertise requires personal competence. Trained speech-language pathologists must be able to develop skills when using tools in assessment, diagnostics, and intervention approaches. Health simulation education is transforming the field of speech-language pathology, offering innovative approaches to train clinicians in diagnosing and treating communication disorders, including the voice, in a safe manner. A scoping review was performed to explore current applications of health simulation to prepare professionals and pre-professionals for the complexities of clinical services in voice.

Method: A scoping review including published peer-reviewed articles was used, in addition to documents from professional authorities in the field. Materials included were disseminated within the last 10 years, in English. The key words used were voice education and simulation, voice education and simulation training, voice education and simulation education, voice education and simulated learning, voice science and simulation, voice science and simulation training, voice science and simulation education, and voice science and simulation education.

Results: Published evidence suggests an increasing thread of health simulation application in training professionals and future clinicians to provide voice care services. Therefore, examination of the current state and future potential of health simulation education supports the encouragement for greater adoption of simulation tools in voice education curricula and continuing education, ultimately advancing patient care and clinician preparedness.

Conclusion: This study was conceived of the need to use advanced simulation technology to enhance education in voice services. It has been suggested in the literature that clinical competency can be improved by simulation task training techniques, an increasingly used method in health education in general. Results will apply to both educational aspects of communication and swallowing disorders and the development of training curricula in speech-language pathology.