Register Your Staff Today

Complete the form on this page for each of your qualified staff and download the registration package for the first assistant training program (which includes the 6 day lab) and the 6-Day Surgical SkillLab^™ as a stand-alone offering.

Requirements for ACE Surgical First Assistant Program

ACE First Surgical Assistant School does not discriminate based on race, sex, religion, ethnic origin, or disability. All enrollees must provide proof of high school diploma (or GED equivalency) or diploma of highest level of medical education completed after high school. In addition, on-the-job trained surgical technicians and graduates of non-CAAHEP accredited surgical technician programs must submit transcripts of college-level courses in medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, microbiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology. Enrollees must also meet one (1) or more of the following 4 requirement categories:

• Operating Room Nurses with a license to practice in the state where they will be doing their clinical internship, two (2) years of documented recent experience in the Operating Room (OR) with scrub proficiency. Or...
• Surgical Technologists who graduate from a CAAHEP accredited or military Surgical Technology program may enroll right after graduation if they can show they’ll be able to get their clinical experience. Or...
• Surgical Technologists (On-the-job or formally trained, including LPNs and LVNs) with at least two (2) years of documented recent scrub experience in the OR. Or...
• Nurse Practitioners (NP), Physician Assistants (PA), Medical Doctors (MD foreign and domestic), and Osteopathic Doctors (DO). It is preferable, but not required, that these professionals have scrub experience in the OR.