Pediatric programs sponsored by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) are required by the ABP to enter a unique identifier into the SIMPL system, known as the SIMPL LearnID, for their Trainees. This identifier is not required for Attendings or Program Administrators. The process for adding new trainees to your SIMPL program with their LearnIDs is outlined below:


  1. Proceed to the APPD site where you can download a template.
  2. Add all data about your trainees to that template.
    1. Under the column “traineeType”, mark all Pediatric residents as Categorical and all combined program residents (i.e. Med-Peds, Peds-Neuro, etc) as DesignatedPreliminary.
  3. Upload the file to the APPD site by clicking Choose File.
  4. Click the Generate Code button. A new file will download to your computer.
  5. Proceed to your program's SIMPL Administrative Site.
  6. On the Users page click "Bulk Invite Users".
  7. Click "Upload" and select the file you just downloaded from the APPD site.
  8. Check for errors and make edits if necessary. You can click "Validate" to confirm any changes you made to error message were successful.
  9. Click Invite All. Invitations will be sent to the emails provided.


Note: Attendings and fellow program admins can be added in bulk as described here as they do not need SIMPL LearnIDs.