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CIP PROGRAM: 51.0909
Surgical Technology/Technologist.

Summary: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians and surgical nurses, to maintain, monitor, and enforce the sterile field and adherence to aseptic technique by preoperative, surgical team, and postoperative personnel. Includes instruction in instrument and equipment sterilization and handling, surgical supplies management, wound exposure and closure, surgical computer and robot operation and monitoring, maintenance of hemostasis, and patient and team scrubbing.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Related Occupations

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National Completion Rate Trends

Year Associate'sBachelor'sMaster's
2020 3893 18 -
2021 3665 13 -
2022 4193 14 -
2023 4586 18 -
2024 4981 18 -
Change +17.80% - -

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Institutions granting degrees in Surgical Technology/Technologist.

Institution Degrees Granted (2024)5-Year Change

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