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Sign Up and Be Entered for Free Tuition from ACE Surgical Assisting

Complete the form on this page to download the registration packet for the Surgical Assistant Training Program and the 6-Day Surgical Skill Lab. When you complete this form, you’ll also be entered for a chance to win free tuition. We’ll choose one winner each quarter.

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Requirements for ACE Surgeon 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 post-secondary 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 operating room.

READ TESTIMONIALS

“I worked in Spine Surgery for 15 years as an OR Tech before beginning this course – assisting on numerous cases. This rotation allowed me to better perfect my assisting skills.“

 

Drew Burnett, ST Consultant,

Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC