Surgical Tech Guide

To surprises to many people, one of the main causes of death used to come from a lack of sterile procedures. Back then, people did not have the knowledge about bacteria and viruses. So, doctors would have to perform these surgeries on their own, allowing a wide range of contamination into the patient’s body. Today, surgical technicians have eliminated this problem by making sure that the operating room is sterile, and the surgeries can go smoothly for both doctors and patients.

For those living in Florida, one possible surgical technician school in Florida is the Southwest Florida College. There are three campuses in Florida for Southwest Florida College – Ft. Meyers (877-493-5147), Tampa (877-907-2456), and Port Charlotte (877-270-9786). Other than this information, the Southwest Florida College does not provide any information online. The interested applicant must fill out an “application,” or a page with general information, to request more information about the surgical technician program.

If you do not live close to any of the three schools, then you should consider High-Tech Institute in Orlando, Florida. For more information, you can call the institute at 888-326-1985. Again, they do not provide any more information other than the number and the fact that they offer this program.

What if you are still not able to attend any program in those places? No worries. Kesier Career College offers surgical technology program at the Greenacres Main Campus, Miami Lakes branch campus, and St. Petersburg branch campus. With Keiser University, the student must have attained high school diploma or equivalent GED and successfully passed the entrance exam. The program is quite rigorous, and the student can finish the entire program in 20 months (full-time) or 29 months (part-time). The program is tough because it includes general education courses as well like American Literature and Political Science.

With the core courses (49.0 credit hours), the students will take three main types of courses – Surgical techniques and Procedures, Surgical Specialties I with Anatomy and Physiology, and Externship. In other words, the program is designed to give enough background and terminology required for surgical technology, and eventually expands to the courses that have students actually experiencing the hands-on training.

These institutions and programs are only some of the choices you have in Florida. Although I have not explicitly discussed them, examples of some other institutions in Florida include Concorde Career Colleges (offered at Jacksonville, Miramar, and Tampa) and Lincoln Technical Institute (offered at Fern Park [Orlando] and St. Petersburg). With these various choices, the interested student should research and visit them individually.