Surgical Assisting
    Duration22 month(s)
    Tuition Fee
    USD 20,221 / Year
    Apply DateMay 31, 2021
    Next IntakeAugust 12, 2021

    Surgical Assisting

    About

    Overview Our immersive experience in allows for direct observation and active participation with the surgical team to develop the critical clinical skills surgical assistants need. Students are exposed to surgical services, including perioperative, intraoperative and postoperative patient care, and ancillary surgical services, such as central sterile services and pathology.This training complements the hands-on instruction students receive in the surgical environment. Our students enter the clinical phase of the program with practical experience in the operating room and a strong foundation of surgical knowledge. I want to find another Master Course Mission The Surgical Assisting program at Eastern Virginia Medical School is the only CAAHEP-accredited surgical assistant program that does not require its students to be trained as surgical technicians. Our graduates earn a Master of Surgical Assisting degree and become certified in 22 months.Our mission is to train competent surgical assistants in a dynamic academic environment and nurture future educators and leaders of the profession.
    Our 70-credit-hour Surgical Assisting program at Eastern Virginia Medical School includes 36 credits of training in our 10-month didactic phase and 34 credits of clinical practice in the second year.

    Disciplines

    Health SciencesHuman Medicine

    Requirements

    Academic Requirements

    • gpa

    English Requirements

    • TOEFLMin 85

    Other Requirements

    1an online applicationa nonrefundable $60 application feetwo (2) letters of recommendationa personal statementofficial transcripts of all college-level coursework

    Fee Information

    Surgical Assisting

    Eastern Virginia Medical School

    Eastern Virginia Medical School

    United States of America

    United States of America, Norfolk