The Surgical Technology program at Sinclair Community College has been CAAHEP approved since 1998 and offers the opportunity to prepare for a career as a member of a surgical team.
A surgical technologist works together with the surgeon, registered nurse, and anesthesiologist as a member of the surgical team. To ensure proper surgical case management, the surgical technologist prepares and passes all sterile instruments during the surgical procedure while maintaining the sterile field and anticipating the needs of the surgeon.
The surgical technologist helps to meet the needs of patients in the operating rooms of hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician offices, diagnostic facilities, and other agencies where surgery is performed.
The program includes both didactic instruction and supervised clinical practice in all areas required by CAAHEP. Supervised clinical practice in area operating rooms include participating in procedures in general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, plastic surgery, urology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, and cardiovascular and peripheral vascular surgery.
Surgical Technology students will rotate through the clinical affiliates as scheduled in the course sequence. The standard clinical case requirements that students must achieve is 125 cases, following the AST Core Curriculm, 5th edition. These 125 cases are distributed among three levels of both core and specialty cases. A minimum of 35 cases must be performed independent of the preceptor or instructor.
All student activities associated with the curriculum, especially while students are completing his or her clinical rotations, are educational in nature. Students will not be receiving any monetary remuneration during this educational experience, nor will he or she be substituted for hired staff personnel within the clnical instituion, in the capacity of a surgical technologist.
For information on the accreditation status of the Surgical Technology Program at Sinclair Community College, please visit the CAAHEP website at http://www.caahep.org/Find_An_Accredited_Program.aspx
