The SWISS Foundation for Innovation and Training in Surgery (SFITS) is a Swiss non-profit foundation based in the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) complex, in Switzerland.
Training Center of Excellence.
Fully equipped Research Facility.
Surgery Innovation Accelerator Hub.
Multidisciplinary platform designed as a secured and controlled training and research environment for professionals working in operating rooms.
We sincerely thank our academic partners for helping us make surgery safer for all!
Surgery is going through great changes with the development of minimally invasive techniques, the integration of robotics and 3D imagery. All surgical and interventional specialties have benefitted from these advances and become more precise and safer.
At the same time, these advances request adaptation and continuous training of the operating room professionals. Whether beginners or highly experienced, practitioners are today confronted with new gestures, techniques and technologies. They must continuously strive to master new and sophisticated instrumentation and equipment.
It is in that context that the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) decided to create and support the SWISS Foundation for Innovation and Training in Surgery (SFITS).
Through the SFITS, the HUG’s ambition is to reinforce their position in the training and education of tomorrow’s professionals, to improve patient healthercare and to foster innovative research projects to contribute to create new and efficient treatments.
The SFITS is committed in bringing solution-driven and continuous improvement approaches to its processes, its products and services, and its people management.
Hospital Surgeon Resident, January 2024
"Thank you all for your best wishes and your fantastic experience you provided to me! I wish you all a joyful 2024 that comes up with greater opportunities to learn plastic surgery more!!"
Medtech Industry, October 2023
"We had a great time during our Lab, excellent efficiency and incredibly flexible and collaborative people at SFITS!"
Medtech Industry, September 2023
"It was a pleasure to organize this course at your facility. All the staff are very helpful and friendly anytime, everything was possible and you always found a solution. This attitude I appreciate a lot as it's unfortunately not very common any more. Feedback from faculty were also excellent about the lab and facility. Hopefully we can organize very soon."
Medtech Industry, June 2023
"Merci infiniment pour l’organisation … c’était comme d’habitude exemplaire ! Vraiment."
Dr Victor Dubois-Ferrière, médecin Associé en Médecine et Chirurgie du Pied et de la Cheville, Centre ASSAL, November 2022
"Nous tenons à remercier toute l’équipe de la SFITS pour votre collaboration, votre aide et votre professionnalisme pendant cette journée de formation. Grâce à vous, ce cours a pu atteindre une qualité de tout haut niveau!"
Medtech Industry, September 2022
"Thank you so much for you and your team’s help with our group. We are extremely grateful to work with a such an accommodating lab. Thank you for letting us set-up the day before, and helping us clean up with our departure. We really appreciate it!"
Dr Lorenzo Bertulli, Senior resident, Kantonsspital Winterthur, August 2022
"We thank you very much for the exceptional work!!! The course ran smoothly and was for everybody (trainees, faculty, sponsors) a great success!! It was for us an absolute pleasure to work with you, we are really happy, and we are already excited to organize the course again next year!"
Medtech Industry, June 2022
"Excellent ! De A à Z et pourtant je suis exigeante !
Ça fait vraiment plaisir d’organiser des évènements avec une équipe comme la vôtre qui allie professionnalisme, gentillesse, et sourires ! Je n’hésiterai pas à revenir et vous avez séduit tous les médecins présents qui ne connaissaient pas forcément le lieu !"
Global Brand Manager, June 2022
"Thank you. I just wanted to say thank you to you and your team. Every single person was beyond helpful, the lab was a great success thanks to their support."
Medtech Industry, May 2022
"Notre premier lab Suisse a eu lieu chez vous le weekend passé. Tout s’est très bien passé. Les participants étaient très contents de cette formation.
Un grand merci à votre équipe. J’étais très impressionné par le professionnalisme et leur « willigness to help » dans une atmosphère très aimable."
Medtech Industry, May 2022
"Je tenais à vous remercier pour votre accueil et le professionnalisme de votre équipe et votre confiance, qui ont participé au succès de ces trois journées. Tant les chirurgiens que nos collègues ont souligné la qualité des installations et du service fournis. Malgré la complexité inhérente à l’organisation d’un tel événement, j’ai le sentiment que celle-ci s’est déroulée de façon simple et efficace."
