One year ahead of the presidential elections, health is no longer just a medical issue: it is strategic, economic, and ethical. The Impacts Santé Forum explores the major challenges that will shape our public policies: sovereignty in research and pharmaceuticals, technological innovation, prevention, mental health, and equitable access to care.

Researchers, philosophers, and industry leaders confront their perspectives to help guide the decisions that will shape our collective resilience. Here, each debate sheds light on the role of the State, businesses, and citizens in building a healthcare system capable of protecting all French people, today and tomorrow.

An event aligned with InSimo’s vision: democratizing access to high-quality medical training and improving the learning curve of healthcare professionals through high-fidelity, accessible, and compact simulators.

Impacts Santé 2026 – Tuesday, April 14, 2026

📍 Pathé Palace – Paris

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The “Port de la Lune” will soon host the 14th edition of the SoFraSimS Congress on the Carreire campus of the University of Bordeaux, from April 1st to 3rd, 2026.

This event serves as a platform for exchange, sharing experiences, and intellectual stimulation, while promoting the dissemination of knowledge and innovation in healthcare simulation, as well as in educational and technological innovation, through the theme “The learner at the heart of simulation”.

A wide range of topics will be addressed by speakers from medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, paramedical sciences, education sciences, psychology, and the broader French-speaking healthcare simulation community.

🗓 SoFraSimS 2026 – April 1st to 3rd

📍SoFraSimS – Carreire Campus – University of Bordeaux

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In March, SimUSanté is hosting Sim’Expo: the forum for technological and equipment innovations in healthcare education.

This unique, free event in France is entirely dedicated to demonstrations, hands-on trials, and realistic simulations in contextualized spaces, allowing you to discover high-fidelity simulators, innovative technical equipment, immersive solutions… as well as new educational approaches tailored to your everyday needs.

Objectives of the day:

• Gain a comprehensive overview of pedagogical and technological developments in healthcare

• Meet SimUSanté’s training partners, as well as leaders in simulation and innovation

• Compare proposed solutions with real-world practice

• Inspire educational projects through concrete, practical feedback

🗓 Sim’Expo 2026 – 19 & 20 March 

📍SimUSanté – Health Simulation Training Center – Amiens

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The Simone Veil Faculty of Health, part of the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), is organizing a Health Education Innovation Day dedicated to the evolution of teaching methods in medical and paramedical training.

InSimo will be present at this unmissable event on Monday, March 9, 2026, in Montigny-le-Bretonneux.

Objectives of the day:

• Share innovative teaching practices in healthcare education

• Showcase digital and technological tools used for teaching (simulation, e-learning, AI)

• Encourage exchanges between researchers, professionals, and educators to reflect on the evolution of learning methods in medical and paramedical studies

🗓 Health Education Innovation Day – March 9, 2026

📍Simone Veil Faculty of Health – Montigny-le-Bretonneux

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In France, as in many other countries, this discipline is gradually becoming established in operating rooms, driven by its recognized clinical benefits: enhanced precision, minimally invasive procedures, improved surgical comfort, and faster patient recovery. Yet behind this technological momentum, a major issue remains: ensuring access to appropriate, standardized, and generic training for all surgeons.

Da Vinci robot

Source: Elsan.com

In France, technological adoption is outpacing training

In France, the current limitations of robotic surgery training have been clearly highlighted by the Académie Nationale de Médecine. While the number of surgical robots installed across the country continues to rise – with more than 300 robots deployed in public and private healthcare institutions in 2025² – access to structured training remains uneven depending on institutions, regions, and specialties.

Training still largely relies on industry-dependent programs, mentorship models, or progressive learning directly in the operating room. This situation creates several challenges: unequal access, lack of standardized competencies, and increased pressure on both surgical teams and patients.

As emphasized by the Académie Nationale de Médecine, the expansion of robotics must be accompanied by standardized university curricula and recognized certification examinations to ensure high-quality initial and continuing education for surgical teams².

In emerging countries: rapid deployment of robotics… without a training ecosystem

Beyond Europe, the issue is even more pronounced in emerging countries, where robotic surgery is beginning to expand rapidly. A recent study conducted in China³ (an emerging country in the adoption of robotic surgery) highlights that, despite the rapid increase in robotic procedures, by the end of 2022 there were only two dedicated robotic surgery training centers nationwide, alongside a clear shortage of formal training programs and surgeons benefiting from structured education.

This rapid deployment faces a significant challenge: the training ecosystem is not always ready. Expert centers are rare, trained instructors are few, and mentorship opportunities are limited. In this context, reliance on occasional training sessions – often costly and difficult to replicate – slows down the effective adoption of the technology.

Democratizing training therefore becomes an issue of healthcare sovereignty: without accessible, standardized, and locally deployable solutions, robotic surgery risks remaining confined to an elite group of institutions, to the detriment of equitable access to care.

Surgery robot VERSIUS from CMR Surgical

Source: Ircad France

Robotic surgery: toward a more diversified industrial landscape

The robotic surgery market is now opening up to numerous new players, offering platforms with varied architectures, interfaces, and uses. New companies are emerging, and the use of robotics in surgery is expanding into orthopedics, endovascular procedures, neurosurgery, and beyond².

This diversification represents a major opportunity, but it also creates an unprecedented training challenge. Unlike a period dominated by a single industry player, it is now difficult – and undesirable – for training to be driven exclusively by manufacturers. As highlighted by the Académie Nationale de Chirurgie⁴, robotic surgery is entering a phase of maturity in which generic, independent, and standardized training has become essential, similar to what occurred in laparoscopic surgery.

This does not, of course, exclude the legitimate need for system-specific training. However, such programs should complement – not replace – a common foundation of robotic competencies: ergonomics, hand–eye coordination, instrument management, safety, decision-making, and anticipation of complications.

ROBOTiS, robotic surgery simulator

To meet the challenges of robotic surgery training, it is essential to rely on innovative and accessible educational tools. Traditional programs – often occasional and limited – are no longer sufficient to prepare surgical teams for the complexity of modern procedures.

In this context, the ROBOTiS simulator offers a highly realistic experience thanks to unparalleled thread modeling, faithfully reproducing its dynamics for precise skill acquisition. Portable and modular, it adapts to all levels of expertise and enhances the safety of robotic procedures.

References

(1) https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/10/30/3177278/0/en/Digital-Surgery-Technologies-Market-to-Reach-US-6-471-91-Million-by-2033-Astute-Analytica.html 

(2) https://www.academie-medecine.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Communique-Formation-chirurgie-robotique-PCRA-82.pdf 

(3) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-13323-6?utm_source=chatgpt.com

(4) https://e-memoire.academie-chirurgie.fr/en/ememoire/5788?utm_source=chatgpt.com

(5) https://www.has-sante.fr/jcms/p_3505883/fr/bonnes-pratiques-en-matiere-de-simulation-en-sante 

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