Why Choose ACE for my First Surgical Assistant Training?
- Convenient for working Surgical Technologists
- Comprehensive online distance learning - in your own home!
- Six intensive but fun days of "hands-on" 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)
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Higher-learning clinical experience for greater success - at your
own hospital!
Affordable for tight budgets
- 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*!
- The ACE Surgical Assisting program is CAAHEP accredited so first assist graduates are eligible for nationally recognized certifying exams and the CFA or SA-C titles!
*ACE cannot guarantee transferability of credits. Transferability is at the sole discretion of the receiving institution.
ACE Surgical Assisting School 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 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 surgical first assistant training fixes this liability problem once and for all.
Your surgeons benefit because they get skilled surgical technicians as 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
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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 certification 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 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 surgical first 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 certification program from ACE Surgical Assisting.
READ TESTIMONIALS
“I found this course very informative, a great resource for networking, and very enjoyable. I highly recommend this class. I had a great time. Thanks!“
Violet Holman, CST
Columbia Memorial Hospital, Astoria, OR



