VirtaMed and STAN Institute announce strategic collaboration

  Surgical training courses to be provided across France using world’s most advanced simulators. Pilots have long been the gold-standard reference for medical educators, with mandatory simulation training, assessment and certification creating a positive culture that rewards learning and increases safety. In 2017, the French Parliament decided to follow suit1, introducing a mandate for all…

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History and Evolution of Robotic Surgery Systems

  Have you ever heard of the da Vinci ™ surgical robot by Intuitive Surgical ® or the neurosurgery robotic system ROSA™ by Medtech ? What about the Google® and Johnson & Johnson venture company named Verb Surgical ? Where do they come from? When were they first introduced in the operation room (OR)?  …

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The french TV is interested in robotic surgery

TF1 at the medical college of Nancy During our training course for the Diploma of robotic surgery from December 7 to December 11, 2015, journalists from TF1 came to us to understand the way we work to train surgeons with STNA Institute. Some small snippets of what was broadcast. (The clip is in french)   We also had been…

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Événement indésirable lié aux soins

La HAS (Haute Autorité de Santé) a récemment déclaré que pour 10 patients il arrive 1 Évènement Indésirable lié Aux Soins (EIAS). Comparer ces chiffres à ceux de l’aviation ou de la sécurité routière fait froid dans le dos… Qu’est-ce qu’un EIAS ? Comment essayer de maîtriser les risques ? STAN Institute se penche aujourd’hui…

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RAMSES 2015

RAMSES 2015, une réussite totale On 23-24 October the STAN Institute team was at the congress organised by RAMSES¹ in Geneva, Switzerland. It was the association’s fifth congress. Dr Georges-Antoine de Boccard opened the congress at the Mandarin Oriental hotel. The greatest benefit of the association, apart from the technical side, is the opportunity for…

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