Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

A surgical technologist is a health professional who prepares an operating room (OR) before surgery. They’re a crucial part of a surgical care team, working alongside the surgeon, the surgeon’s ...

Hospitals are desperate to fill a middle-class health care job that only requires candidates to graduate from a certificate program — the issue is nobody’s heard of it. Sterile processing technicians ...

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska-- It's been shown thousands of times in movies; the surgeon stands over a patient focused on the surgery being performed. The surgeon sticks out a gloved hand and without ...

Surgical technologists have a keen attention to detail. Responsible for preparing operating rooms, strategically arranging equipment and assisting during procedures, surgeries — which account for at ...

One student described being in the operating room for a brain surgery. Another provided details of a leg amputation. There also were students who were in the room for a Cesarean section birth, a ...

Clark College announced Thursday it received a $141,260 grant to develop a surgical technician program — the first of its kind at Clark and believed to be the first in all of Southwest Washington.

Behind the scenes and in Operating Rooms, surgical technicians are responsible for more than patients may realize. In recognition of their work, both in and out of view, the profession is celebrated ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — South College hosted ‘Grey’s for a Day’, ahead of the “Grey’s Anatomy” 22nd season premiere. People were invited to experience how surgical technology students prepare for ...