Why Choose ACE for my Surgical First Assistant Training?
- Convenient for working Physician Assistants and Advance Practice Nurses
- Comprehensive online distance learning - in your own home!
- Six intensive but fun days of "hands-on" surgical first assist training, the only time you're away from work. It is usually in your region - perhaps at your own hospital! (Call 1-888-221-5992 to learn how to bring the lab to your hospital)
- Higher-learning clinical experience for greater success - at your own hospital!
Affordable for tight budgets
- Surgeon Assistant Training is compatible with most employer tuition reimbursement plans.
- Low down payment and easy monthly payment plans if your employer doesn't pay, or you don't want to wait.
- Therefore, if you want in, you're in! We don't let money get in the way.
Credentials for Exams and Titles
- Earn 52 semester credits*!
- ACE Surgeon Assistant Program is approved by the American Board of Surgical Assistants, Inc. (ABSA). Graduates of the program are eligible to sit for the ABSA certifying exam and earn the SA-C title (Surgical Assistant Certified).
*ACE Surgical Assisting cannot guarantee transferability of credits. Transferability is at the sole discretion of the receiving institution.
ACE Surgical Assisting Training is the smart choice, whatever your current role or experience!
How Will My Employer Benefit from My Training?
Your employer benefits from a staff that will be able to:
- Perform at a skill level associated with experienced surgical first assistants.
- Skillfully close surgical wounds while the surgeon writes orders, dictates, and sees the next patient. The time saved in the schedule will help your employer generate more surgical revenue.
- Make surgeons want to bring all their patients to your facility. Your employer will also be able to attract new surgeons.
- Recognize the facility as a center for professional growth and opportunity. Loss of your best people will be reduced and recruiting good people will be enhanced. That is vital in a down economy.
- Reduce your employer's liability as well as your own. Whether you are trained or not, you have to first assist when the scheduled assistant is late or doesn't show up. Assigning someone to first assist when they weren't trained for it puts your employer, your surgeons, and you in a smart lawyer's crosshairs. Proper training fixes this liability problem once and for all.
Your surgeons benefit because they get skilled surgical first assistants who:
- Make their procedures run more smoothly
- Make their surgical experience more pleasant
- Eliminate many of the so-called "unavoidable" frustrations of surgery
- Reduce the surgeon's liability
- Significantly reduce wasted time so they can see more patients and build their practice
- Reduce or eliminate the need for the surgeon to first assist
Better Yourself, Your Confidence, and Your Skill
ACE Surgical Assistant training will help you be a better you. The first assist program is designed to give you the knowledge, skill, and confidence you need to perform at your very best. When you complete this surgeon assistant program, you’ll be both mentally and physically prepared to wow your hospital with your surgical first assist skills and confidence.
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Sign Up Today for ACE Surgical Assistant Program
Get the hand-on skills practice you need to become an expert first surgical assistant. Register now by completing the form on this page to download the registration packet. Or download our brochure or ACE First Surgical Assistant School Catalog to get more information about the Surgical Assistant certificate program from ACE Surgical Assisting.
READ TESTIMONIALS
“The skills lab I think was terrific. Very informative and a lot of valuable techniques are taught. I think this is a great program. I like that you can do it online, which means that you don’t have to quit your work schedule. You do it at your own pace.
I really enjoyed the micro and laparoscopy labs. I learned a lot during the colon resection and look forward to using the techniques I learned at this lab back home. AAA Repair was very interesting for me. The spear technique was very cool. I learned more than I actually thought I would with this procedure. I will highly recommend this program to anyone in this field.”
Mary Fernandez, ST
Uvalde Memorial Hospital, Uvalde, TX




