IDEX funding
The “educational surgical video” project by the Faculté de Santé at Université Paris Cité has won the IDEX Innovations pédagogiques (wave 2) call for projects “Pédagogies innovantes” (ie Innovation in education).
This project led by François Simon and Thomas Blanc, entitled IDEX UP INNOVPED Plat VIDEO CHIR was selected by the IDEX COPIL at its meeting on 01/09/2021, as part of the IDEX “Université Paris 2019”. A grant of 9,240.00 euros was made available for the creation of the website until 30 June 2023.
The website was published online on the 1st September 2023.


As part of the IdEx initiative, Université Paris Cité implements innovative and structuring programmes in the fields of research, international relations, training and student life, and knowledge transfer. These programmes are funded by the IdEx Université Paris 2019 grant and are deployed in collaboration with the research organisations and partner institutions of the IdEx consortium.
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Surgical Video Summarization: Multifarious Uses, Summarization Process and Ad-Hoc Coordination
While surgical videos are valuable support material for activities around surgery, their summarization demands great amounts of time from surgeons, limiting the production of videos. Through fieldwork, we show current practices around surgical videos. First, we...

ResoMeds: a social network sharing videos
Case reports enrich medical knowledge and training, and improve practice [1-4]. However, their publication is often limited in existing journals [5]. We aim to highlight the importance of creating a platform for physician exchange to promote peer learning, case...

Videos improve knowledge retention of surgical anatomy
In otolaryngology, a new publication shows that an educational video improves anatomy learning and knowledge retention in the long term. This study conducted by the ENT team at Necker-Enfants Malades, APHP (Université Paris Cité) and led by Pr François Simon shows the...

Surgical videos: using the most efficient medium. AGOF’s associative experience
In 2010, the French National Authority for Health (HAS) issued the famous slogan for apprentice surgeons: "Never perform surgery on a patient for the first time" (1). It is sometimes difficult for a young surgeon to accept that he or she has not received sufficient...