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Surgical Techs, OR Nurses, Surgical Assistants,
RN First Assistants, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Family Physicians and Foreign Trained MDs.
The ACESA Experience
If you are an OR professional with scrub proficiency, you have just arrived at the next level. Now is the time to upgrade your career for only $99 per month. Start earning the respect and income you need – especially in a down economy.
As an educated consumer, we know you are looking around at other Surgical Assistant Programs so you can make the most informed decision possible (‘surgical assisting’ is the same as ‘first assisting’ in surgery). Since we value your time on our website, let’s get right to it. We’ll show you how we are different from the pack, how much more you will receive from The ACESA Experience, and how it will impact your career.
On the outside, the ACESA Surgical Assistant Program appears to be like others since it is broken into 3 separate parts, all equally valuable and important. A deeper look will show you huge differences. Let’s see what they are:
Fully Online Distance-Learning
ACESA distance-learning is unique because it provides you with ultimate convenience and the latest in online distance-learning technology. All course-related information is easy to get online through a secure page on the ACESA website. You’ll never once have to wait for someone to get you the next assignment out by email or snail mail.
You get your own personal web page. Everything is immediately available to you including your grades. You can monitor your progress at each step of your training. Your web page is update daily so your fingers are on the pulse of your education.
If you do need us, Student Advisors are ready weekdays 8am to 5pm Mountain Time to personally help you with any problems you may encounter along the way. They are highly experienced and can help you at every step to ensure your success.
To receive a detailed list of online courses, please click the Brochure and School Catalog links in the column to the right.
The Surgical SkillLab – 6 Days to Expertise
Here, you develop surgery-ready wound closure and advanced surgical skills while performing surgeries on simulated patients. Not only is this the most enjoyable part of the program, what you learn shows. The skin closure may be all the patient sees but your overall surgical skills are what your surgeon sees and you’ll be expected to perform them at a high level.
So we refuse to negotiate or compromise by giving you ‘options’ for your skills training. There are no good options. The full 6 days of hands-on training is a must for you to have a successful clinical training experience and a successful future as a first assistant.
Nothing you learn from a video or a couple of hours on a pig’s foot will prepare you for the rigors of high-level first assisting in real life. 6 days gives you the proper time to gain enough real-life practical experience as you perform in the roles of both the first assistant and the surgeon in realistic surgery simulations.
You will receive individualized feedback and coaching from the most acclaimed Surgical Assistant instructor in the country, Dan Bump. He has over 30 years of surgical experience you can directly draw on and learn the secrets and tricks-of-the-trade only a seasoned and successful Surgical Assistant can pass on to you. Click the link on the right to learn more about Mr. Bump.
You don’t just learn basic wound closure skills. You get the full range of skills from opening to closure. You learn advanced skills from microsurgery, laparoscopic surgery, vascular surgery, GYN surgery, and General surgery. These are high value skills you can also use for other specialties you work in.
Finally, you get a real Lifetime Skills Guarantee you won’t receive anywhere else. We want you to feel comfortable knowing you are going to get everything you need from the 6-day lab. Don’t worry. With the skill-level of our instructor and our effective teaching methods, you WILL learn it all in your first lab. The only reason we have the Guarantee is to ensure you have all the tools for success at your fingertips!
You don’t have to wait until you graduate. You can retake the lab as many times as you want for free – no conditions and no questions asked. You can also use the Guarantee to brush up on your skills or just because we are bringing the lab to your area and you want credit for continuing education.
Learn more about the exciting and unique Surgical SkillLab by clicking the link on the right. You’ll find a detailed agenda for each day of the lab, a Lab Catalog, and everything you need to judge for yourself if the 6-day lab is the kind of training you need for success.
SurgiEdge Clinical Internship
Once you’ve been prepared by 6 days of advanced hands-on training, your clinical internship becomes the most impactful portion of the program. The internship is your ‘live tissue’ training. Thanks to receiving state-of-the-art skills training beforehand, your work on live tissue is safer, more productive, and more appropriate.
In the ACESA program, you will assist on 135 cases total in a minimum of 2 specialties. You have to first assist on 35 General surgery cases but after that – you choose your specialties. Customize the internship around your own needs. Our multi-specialty training is designed to give you the surgical edge you need to compete successfully for the most challenging and lucrative assisting positions out there.
Your cases can be completed at your own hospital or any facility you choose. If you click the National Register of SA Friendly Hospitals, you’ll see a long list of over 300 hospitals we are currently affiliated with around the country. Your hospital may already be listed there in addition to hospitals in your area who may be more than happy to help you with your clinical rotations.
To get a detailed list of specialties, click the Brochure and School Catalog links.
Our Guarantee
We are so convinced you will get the very best training with ACESA that we guarantee it. If you can find any other CAAHEP accredited Surgical Assistant Program offering more than we do, we will give you our program at their price with an additional 10% discount! Giving you ‘more’ means they must offer:
- More than 41 semester credits worth of fully online training (must be all online so that you don’t have to wait for assignments to be mailed or emailed to you), AND…
- More than 6 days of hands-on skills training (all 7 or more days must be mandatory, not optional, and they all must be hands-on training not just lecture, testing, etc.), AND…
- A life-time skills guarantee that allows you to retake the hands-on training as many times as you want, without conditions, for free. It starts immediately and you don’t have to wait until you graduate. AND…
- More training flexibility for working OR professionals, AND…
- Instructors who have more practical experience in the field of Surgical Assisting; have had more success as self-employed Surgical Assistants and in helping others do the same; and have more testimonials from students who are very happy with their teaching abilities.
We dare you to look for a program more dedicated to your success than we are. The more you look, the better we look. We take it to a level no other school does by offering the distance-learning Basic OR Sciences Program to help OJT techs qualify for Surgical Assistant training, a mentoring program to help graduates interested in becoming their own bosses, and a 3rd party billing service to help insure their financial success.
We don’t just take your money and then spit you out. When you complete our program, we’ll still be there for you when you need us. So please, take a spin around our website. Take your time. If you still have questions, call us at 1-888-221-5992. See for yourself what a friendly, helpful staff we have. They are exactly the kind of people you’ll enjoy dealing with throughout your training.
But if you are ready now to get on the path to your successful future, click on the link below to enroll in our Surgical Assistant Program and get started right away.
Thank you and prosper in surgery.
Call 1-888-221-5992 for details. or... CLICK HERE
“Tying ‘Dan Bump’ style changed my life forever professionally!”
-Donald Hill, RN
“All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage
to pursue them.” -Walt Disney
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Approved and regulated by the Colorado Department of Higher Education, Private Occupational School Board.
Agents licensed By the Colorado Department of Higher Education, Private Occupational School Board.
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The ACESA Surgical Assistant Program is approved by the American Board of Surgical Assistants, Inc. (ABSA). Upon passing the ABSA exam, graduates can use the
title 'SA-C' (Surgical Assistant - Certified.)
ACESA, Inc.
Phone: 1-888-221-5992
Fax: 1-303-221-4747
4950 S. Yosemite St., F2 #343
Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111
Covidien, W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., and Ansell Occupational Healthcare are proud to provide surgical materials to ACESA to greatly enhance formal Surgical Assistant training for OR Nurses, Surgical Techs, and other qualified surgical professionals. Covidien also provides suture profiles and a knot tying manual for download from their website(click on the logo above).
