Surgical Technology | Clinical Site Information

Clinical Site Information

Clinical sites are located at Henry Ford Jackson, Hillsdale Hospital, Sparrow Hospital, Chelsea Hospital, McClaren of Greater Lansing Hospital and ProMedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital.

All student activities associated with the curriculum, especially while students are completing clinical rotations, will be educational in nature. Students will not be substituted for hired staff personnel within the clinical institution, in the capacity of a surgical technologist.

During clinicals, surgical technology students must complete a minimum of 120 cases as delineated below:

General Surgery: Students must complete a minimum of 30 cases in General Surgery. 20 of these cases must be performed in the First Scrub (FS) role and the remaining 10 cases may be performed in either the FS or SS role.

Specialty Surgery: Students must complete a minimum of 90 cases in various surgical specialties, excluding General Surgery. A minimum of 60 cases must be performed in the first scrub role and distributed amongst a minimum of four surgical specialties. A minimum of 10 cases in four different specialties must be completed in the first scrub role. The additional 20 cases in the first scrub role may be distributed amongst any one surgical specialty or multiple surgical specialties. The remaining 30 cases may be performed in any surgical specialty in either the first scrub or second scrub role. Surgical specialties (excluding general surgery) include:

• cardiothoracic
• genitourinary
• neurologic
• obstetric and gynecologic
• orthopedic
• otorhinolaryngologic
• ophthalmologic
• oral/maxillofacial ix. peripheral vascular x. plastics and reconstructive
• procurement and transplant