29th Hands-on Intensive Training for Engineers: Surgery in Practice

Further progress in surgery will only be possible in the future if new tools and procedures are made available by medical technology. In order to accelerate the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic concepts, and to focus efficiently on the user needs, a more intensive exchange between surgeons, researchers and developers is required, more urgently than ever before.

In practice, this exchange is often more difficult than expected, as engineers and physicians come from different professional worlds. The diverse knowledge domains are characterized by their own language and methodological approaches and therefore require a common interface. Thus, interaction in the context of joint development projects holds great potential, a process we have termed Surgineering. This process requires profound fundamental knowledge of each other’s domains.

In order to mediate a better understanding of surgical activities, the Research Group for Minimally Invasive Interdisciplinary Therapeutic Intervention (MITI) at TUM University Hospital, together with the German Society for Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT) in the VDE, have decided to offer a hands-on training course for engineers.

The course is under the auspices of the Surgical Working Group for Computer- and Robot-Associated Surgery (CTAC) and is led by the topic “Surgery in Practice”.

The course is supposed to illustrate the essential practical principles of interventional medicine and, above all, show areas of development that represent current challenges for medical technology. As courses of this kind have found a great echo in the past years, we are pleased to invite you once again to Munich, in November 2025.

Please register via: chirurgiekurs@mitigroup.de