A system for selecting a patient position and an equipment configuration for a medical procedure is provided. The system includes a controller, and a memory device operative to store an application. The application adapts the controller to retrieve, from the memory device, one or more possible patient positions for the medical procedure and one or more possible equipment configurations for the medical procedure. The application further adapts the controller to select, based at least in part on one or more parameters of the medical procedure, a patient position from the possible patient positions and an equipment configuration from the possible equipment configurations； and to generate an indicator that conveys the selected patient position and the equipment configuration.
