2024-2025 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    May 10, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook

Surgical Technology (A.A.S.)

Location(s): OTC Springfield Campus


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A.A.S. Degree: 62 Hours

Graduates receive an Associate in Applied Science degree designed to prepare them for the national certification exam administered by The National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting. Graduates may work in hospital surgery or labor and delivery areas, out-patient surgery centers or as private scrubs for individual surgeons. The Surgical Technology program is reviewed by the Accreditation Review Committee in Surgical Technology and accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP).

Students may take the “Program Specific Courses” only if they have been admitted into the program.

A grade of “C” or better is required for all Surgical Technology Program required courses. A separate application process is required for acceptance into this program. A new class begins each fall semester. The application deadline for the program is April 1. Contact the Health Sciences Office for an application packet. The application packet is available online.

The Surgical Technology Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs, 9355 113th St N, #7709, Seminole, FL  33775, (727) 210-2350  https://www.caahep.org/

The program is accredited through the Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (ARC/STSA), 19751 East Mainstreet, Suite #339, Parker, CO  80138  303-694-9262   https://arcstsa.org/

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* Please contact the Health Sciences Office if:

  1. you have taken MTH 110 prior to the fall 2018 semester
  2. you have previously taken BCS 145 and BCS 146

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