Surgical Technology
Are you ready to scrub in and join the fast-paced world of surgical technology? With expert instructors and hands-on experience, you’ll be equipped with the technical skills to assist surgeons in the operating room in no time! Let’s get started on your path to an exciting career in healthcare!
Where Precision Meets Patient Care
Get Inside the Operating Room
Surgical technologists are key members of the surgical team. Students learn to prepare operating rooms, organize surgical instruments, and maintain sterile environments. They also support surgeons during procedures.
Hands-On Clinical Training
The program combines classroom learning, lab work, and real-world clinical experiences in healthcare. Students gain practical experience with surgical procedures, patient care, instrumentation, and sterile techniques.
Prepare for Certification
A Career Focused on Patient Care and Teamwork
Surgical technologists support patients in critical moments of their lives. Students build skills in communication, teamwork, attention to detail, and critical thinking. These skills are essential for daily tasks in operating rooms.
Careers
Opportunities
Surgical technologists are primarily hired by hospitals, however, they also get hired by private specialty practices in fields such as:
- Ophthalmology
- Neurosurgery
- Orthopedics
- Plastic/reconstructive surgery
Locations
DEGREES & CERTIFICATES
Surgical Technology, AAS
This 60-credit program takes 3 terms to complete, including a summer term. Students must attend full-time.
Sounds great, but how do I apply?
Support for your studies
Helper mindset lands alumna in operating room
From childhood, Ashley Arratia pictured one job in her future, and it involved a uniform. Scrubs, to be exact. Shadowing her mom at her hospital job, the 5-year-old would imagine herself as one of the nurses. At home, her Barbie dolls would check each other’s temperatures and give shots.
“That’s all I’ve wanted to do is just help people,” Arratia said.
Today she does indeed wear scrubs, but she wound up in a field that suits her even better than nursing.
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See What Else Is Out There
Did you know we offer over 200 programs and certificates? While our Surgical Technologist Program may not be for you, maybe one of our other health care programs will catch your interest.Accreditation
The San Jacinto College Surgical Technology program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (ARC/STSA).
