Learn The Skills, Tips, and Trade Secrets You Need to Be the Best

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed exactly what it takes to reach mastery or expertise. With the right kind of hands-on first surgical assistant training, YOU can first assist in surgery like experts do. That's why we have the Surgical SkillLab, The Expert Way. But is 6 days enough time? You've likely known more than one person who has worked in surgery for many years, even surgeons, who you wouldn't consider to be experts. So how can you get on the expert way? You have to do just 3 things:

• Learn what first assist experts know and do up front - before you even start your clinical internship.
• Practice first assist expert techniques under the careful guidance and coaching of an experienced expert. (You get Dan Bump or someone he hand-selected and trained. See About Dan Bump).
• Learn your skills 'in context' by using them to perform realistically simulated surgeries.

How Does the ACE Surgical SkillLab^™ Benefit You?

The Power of Role Playing

Learning skills in a vacuum by boring repetition leaves a lot to be desired. You also don't fully get 'why' you are learning a skill, why you have to do it a certain way, and under what circumstances you would use a skill. However, when you role play a skill in a realistic surgical simulation, you learn 'in context,' not in a vacuum.  In addition, role playing helps you learn how to:

• Apply your techniques in real-life situations
• Modify your technique in order to use it in different situations
• Perform one complete surgery as the surgeon so you are learning and applying surgical techniques and skills in context
• Learn surgical technique, as well as what a surgeon wants from a first assistant
• Perform another full surgery as the assistant
• Use great surgical assisting techniques to make your case go smoothly
• Perform 2 full surgeries each surgery day
• Perform 8 surgeries all together

Created to Help You Succeed

Dan Bump founder of ACE Surgical Assisting, is the architect of the 6 day model of hands-on surgical first assist training as a fast-track to expertise. As a 30 year veteran of the Operating Room, Dan has been around and he knows the skills you need to make you perform like an expert the right skills. Dan has been teaching first assisting and surgical techniques for over 20 years now and his experience proves that for the majority of students, 6 days with an expert is the sweet spot.

Anatomy is Your Job!

Anatomy is like a language. If you don't use it. you lose it! As the surgical first assistant, ANATOMY IS YOUR JOB! These classes teach you what you need to learn from your study of anatomy to get the right perspective. Since anatomy is your job, you never want to stop learning. You'll get the questions to keep in mind as you study surgical anatomy. Some of these questions include:

• How does this knowledge make me a better first assistant?
• What new perspective does this give me?
• What are the anatomical landmines that might get me or my surgeon
  into trouble?
• What is the secret to identifying these structures in surgery even if the patient's conditions makes identification difficult?
• How does this knowledge help me handle the patient's tissue correctly
  and safely?

Your Instructor Is a Freelance Surgical Assistant

If your surgical assistant school instructor and/or your program director is or has been a highly successful freelance Surgical Assistant, he can be a substantial resource and give you a big head start if you decide someday to start your own first surgical assisting business. Dan Bump has not only been successful himself, he has mentored many of his students to business success.

Teaching Methods and Style Really Matter

You know it's true. Your instructor could be very good in surgery but be a lousy instructor. It can be hard to find someone with both. Dan Bump's students love his humorous, patient, and effective teaching style. And the ACE Surgical Assisting teaching methods such as 'learning in context' are all proven to work. Students just can't say enough about it. Read some of the student comments. You'll be amazed!

What Dan knows and anyone he teaches to be an ACE Surgical Assisting instructor knows is everyone learns differently. So Dan has an assortment of different ways to explain concepts and how to perform a skill. When he finds someone who can't get it, Dan goes through all his explanations until he gets to the one that resonates with the student. It always works - always. That knowledge keeps Dan patient. He never gets too frustrated or angry. His students love it and they always do well.

Your Hands-On Training Changes Your Clinicals

On paper the ACE Clinical Internship looks a lot like other surgeon assistant programs you could have taken. But your extensive hands-on training in the expert way changes your clinicals into a higher-learning experience. If you are well prepared for your clinicals by the Surgical SkillLab, then your clinicals are very different.

Your surgeons quickly discover they aren't going to have to teach you the basics or even much of the advanced stuff. The only thing left is their secrets and tricks-of-the-trade.

Surgical SkillLab^™ as a Stand-Alone Course

But you aren't in the Program, you are just taking the lab to improve on your skills and learn some new things. You may not be starting a clinical internship but you can expect your experience to be very similar when you go back to your operating room. You'll increase your surgeons trust in your abilities and you will gain increasing opportunities rather than getting them shut down.

• Your competence and confidence will soar.
• Experience chest-bursting personal pride and increased job satisfaction.
• Expand your scope of practice to include first first surgical assisting and reduce your liability.
• Reduce the surgical risk of assisting in surgery without proper training.
• Enjoy improved relationships with your surgeons.
• Make your surgeons happy.

You get expert secrets and tricks-of-the-trade.

Only the ACE Surgical First Assisting Surgical SkillLab, The Expert Way gives you the 6 ACE secrets that make you perform the expert way even if you never assisted before. Use these secrets during your clinical internship and, not only will you pass the surgeon assistant program with flying colors, you'll be unbeatable!

Lifetime Access for Skills Mastery!

You can retake the lab at no extra charge, as many times as you like, until you fully master the skills you need for the ultimate success!

Surgical skills are so important to your success. That's why we have the 6 day lab instead of leaving all of your skills training up to your surgeons. That same sense of responsibility prompted us to introduce the Lifetime Access For Skills Mastery program included with the Surgical SkillLab, The Expert Way at no extra charge. With this program you get lifetime access to the 6 day lab - retake the lab as many times as you like, until you are thoroughly convinced you received the full value of training and that you have fully mastered the skills. It's our way of assuring that ACE Surgical Assisting medical graduates are the most skilled and most successful First Surgical Assistants in the country!

"Tying 'Dan Bump' style changed my life forever professionally!"
-Donald Hill, RN

Are you starting to see the power you receive to master skills and control your own destiny? You can literally turn your current surgery job into your dream career with an income you never thought possible unless you went to medical school.

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 Surgical Assistant School Catalog to get more information about the 6-day Surgical SkillLab^™ program from ACE Surgical Assisting.