A system and method for integrated surgical table icons includes a computer-assisted medical device. The computer-assisted medical device includes a control unit for controlling the computer-assisted medical device and a display unit coupled to the control unit having at least a surgical table status region. The control unit is configured to receive information from a surgical table describing an orientation of a top of the surgical table relative to a base of the surgical table, generate one or more icons graphically depicting the surgical table and the orientation, and send the one or more icons to the display unit for display within the surgical table status region. The surgical table is coupled to the computer-assisted medical device via a communications connection.
