Properly trained certified surgical first assistants can greatly improve operating room efficiency, physician satisfaction and, most importantly, patient outcome and care, according to Debra Woods, ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -Gulf Coast State College is working on adding more surgical technologists to the medical field. “We actually have two programs we have a surgical technology program and ...

Delta College's Surgical First Assistant Program has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs and is one of only two in Michigan and 10 in the nation to ...

The present as well as the future holds exciting opportunities for advanced practice nurses (APNs), not the least of which is participation during surgery as a first assistant. In 1990, when the ...