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 ROTATION CASE REQUIREMENTS
As of January 1, 2013:
Surgical Technology students will rotate through the clinical affiliates as scheduled in the course sequence. The standard surgical rotation case requirements that students must achieve is 120 cases, following the AST Core Curriculum, 6th edition.
These 120 cases are to be distributed as follows:
General Surgery (30)
Students are required to complete 30 cases in General Surgery. 20 of these cases must be in the role of ‘first scrub’.
All other Specialties (90)
Students are required to complete the remaining 90 cases in various surgical specialties to include:
OB-GYN, EENT, Plastics, Orthopedic, Vascular, Neurosurgery, and Transplant/Organ procurement.
Sixty (60) of the ninety (90) cases must be in the role of the ‘first scrub’ and evenly distributed between a minimum of 5 surgical specialties. However, 15 cases is the maximum number of cases that can be counted in any one surgical specialty.
Diagnostic endoscopy cases and vaginal delivery cases are not mandatory. But up to 10 diagnostic endoscopic cases and 5 vaginal delivery cases can be counted towards maximum number of Second Scrub Role cases.
Observation cases must be documented, but do not count towards the 120 required cases.
STUDENT WORK POLICY
All student activities associated with the curriculum, especially while students are completing his or her clinical rotations, will be 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 clinical institution, 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
