This educational program is designed to prepare students, under the supervision of physicians and surgical nurses, to monitor, maintain, and enforce the sterile field and adherence to aseptic technique by surgical team, preoperative, and postoperative personnel. This program frequently includes in depth instruction in instrument and equipment sterilization and handling, wound exposure and closure, surgical supplies management, maintenance of hemostasis, surgical computer and robot operation and monitoring, and patient and team scrubbing.
Below are colleges and universities providing majors, degrees, and training programs in Surgical Technology.
- Amarillo College Amarillo, TX
- Augusta Technical College Augusta, GA
- Bismarck State College Bismarck, ND
- Centralia College Centralia, WA
- DeKalb Technical College Clarkston, GA
- Dixie State College St. George, UT
- El Centro College Dallas, TX
- Florence-Darlington Technical College Florence, SC
- Frederick Community College Frederick, MD
- Galveston College Galveston, TX
- Greenville Technical College Greenville, SC
- Illinois Central College East Peoria, IL
- John A. Logan College Carterville, IL
- Kaskaskia College Centralia, IL
- Lackawanna College Scranton, PA
- Lincoln University Jefferson City, MO
- Middle Georgia State College Macon, GA
- Midlands Technical College West Columbia, SC
- New England Institute of Technology Warwick, RI
- North Arkansas College Harrison, AR
- Odessa College Odessa, TX
- Our Lady of the Lake College Baton Rouge, LA
- Parkland College Champaign, IL
- Quincy College Quincy, MA
- Rend Lake College Ina, IL
- Renton Technical College Renton, WA
- Saddleback College Mission Viejo, CA
- San Juan College Farmington, NM
- Temple College Temple, TX
- Tyler Junior College Tyler, TX
- University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Fort Smith, AR
- University of Montana Missoula, MT
- Vincennes University Vincennes, IN
- Washburn University Topeka, KS
- Western Technical College La Crosse, WI