HAPPY 2010!

Happy new year to all of the friends, family, staff, and students of the San Joaquin Valley College Fresno Surgical Technology program. 2009 has certainly been a year to remember, and as always, the year has flown by. The coming year will hold a lot of challenging and exciting times for the surg tech students. As we round out the final weeks of term one, the students are gearing up for term two. This term will consist of 15 weeks of classroom and laboratory instruction for the soon-to-be sophomores that will hone in their skills and prepare them to enter the operating room at their assigned clinical sites and begin to assist in surgical operations on real patients. The junior class will be moving into their final term as seniors and will continue their clinical externships at new facilities.  Please take a moment to congratulate your son, daughter, spouse, mom, dad, friend, or family member on their accomplishments so far as they have embarked on the journey toward gaining a rewarding education and career. Good luck to all of you as we start this new year. Happy 2010!

Check us out in the ASTSA News!

In the current Fall 2009 issue of the ASTSA News there is a blurb about SJVC on page 5. For those of you who would like to read the newsletter (and I recommend you do), here is the link:

http://www.ast.org/publications/documents/ASTSA%20News/Fall09.pdf

There is some very useful information here for any student in clinicals, enjoy.

Surgical Assistant Resource

I just wanted to send out this quick update and let everyone know that the Surgical Technology Resource site has been integrated into the following website:

www.surgicalassistantresource.org

Check this site periodically for study aids, links to info to help out on projects and presentations, and for any other info related to the profession.

Also, I just wanted to take a moment and say that you all did a good job in lab this week. I know that it is getting down to the wire, but just keep up the studying and come to open lab this Friday. Your skills are improving each and every week, keep it up and you will be excelling at your clinical sites in no time! Have a great weekend and get geared up for intraoperative skills next week. We have now graduated to the next level in surgical case management!

For a limited time, MD Publishing is offering a free subscription to OR Today magazine. This is a great resource dealing with many current issues facing operating room staff. To subscribe, click the link below. No billing information other than name and address are requested, so the subscriptions will not auto renew.

http://www.mdpublishing.com/subscription.aspx

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you all enjoyed your time off for the Thanksgiving holiday. Now it's time to get back into the swing of things!

Awesome Attendance!!

Congratulations are in order for the Surg Tech program. We have set a new attendance record! Attendance at SJVC is calculated in 5 week modules because of the schedules of all of the other programs on campus. With that said, this is the first time EVER that the SJVC Surg Tech program has made it through the first five weeks of a new start with every student still enrolled in the program. WOOHOO!!!! We have witnessed unprecedented attendance for both the freshman and junior classes. Keep up the good work everyone. It is this type of dedication that will get everyone to graduation night.

The Freshman class with Ms. Junge show their dedication

The Junior class' future is so bright...

We're in the Journal!

We're in the journal! The new edition of the "The Surgical Technologist" features a summary and photos from SJVC's Surgical Technology week open house held back in September. This was a great night. We had over 100 people in attendance, and several of those are now current students in the freshman class. We also had the help of several current students during the event. A big thanks to those of the junior class who were in attendance and helped out.

SJVC's Surgical Technology open house is now in its sixth year. It has proven to be a wonderful way for the community to get a hands on lesson in what happens in an actual operating room. The open house was preceded by television and radio advertisements that helped bolster interest in the program and in the profession. What better way to get the word out about who we are and what we do!

We look forward to hosting this event again next year during Surgical Technologist Week. For the full printed article in the AST journal, click the following link:

Surgical Technologist Week 2009 Flier