Sign Up and Be Entered for Free Tuition
Complete the form on this page 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. When you complete this form, you’ll also be entered for a chance to win free tuition from ACE Surgical Assisting. We’ll choose one winner each quarter.
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Requirements for ACE First Assist Program
ACE Surgical First Assistant School does not discriminate based on race, sex, religion, ethnic origin, or disability. All first assistants & RNFA 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 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.
READ TESTIMONIALS
“You do a nice job with teaching. The experience with the loops and magnifier was excellent. Not only did you get a feel for what the surgeon goes through but also how the assist can help. I appreciate the one-on- one time to assist with better technique and making sure that we are doing it correctly. It was very informative and definitely increased my knowledge of surgical assisting. I recommend this program to my peers.“
Carleen Post, CST
St. Anthony Medical Center, Rockford, IL
