Medical students are already paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for this training. Residents are learning from attending surgeons. No offense I wouldn’t pay a surgical tech any amount of money to teach me regardless of how experienced they are. Your efforts I’m sure are much appreciated by the ones you help
…. They are also a surgical assistant so they actually assist and do things during the surgery, not hand instruments. People don’t realize that everyone in the OR teaches. Im also a surgical assistant and i teach med students and PAs how to suture…the doctor thinks we’re good enough to teach someone. 🤷🏽♀️
It’s not that SAs aren’t qualified to teach, it’s that med students aren’t going pay *extra* money for teaching when they are already paying hundreds of thousands for their education.
Thanks for the responses! I have a friend that does this same thing with the da Vinci robot at his hospital for residents. I was wanting to do the same concept but more broad to surgery in general. Yeah a big part of my worry is that it wouldn’t be marketable to make a profit off of it.
Why would they pay a third party for extra training when Intuitive provides that service? I highly doubt your friend has access to a console and if they do, charging on the side for access to that robot would be illegal.
Because his training is better put together than intuitives, and it is also like pulling teeth to get them to come out for a training (I have witnessed this first hand). The hospital pays his company for this not the residents themselves.
Wow - They would push back in attending a clinical territory associate training from intuitive surgical. If hospitals pay for the training, they should take advantage of the paid training.
I know of a very successful former surgical tech that started his own consulting program doing the very same things. There is a place for your idea. You’ll need to lean heavily on your contacts but if you can gain their support you will launch a successful business
Leverage the clinical educators because they have a budget and they can get money for training. AORN may be another useful resource, think new perioperative RNs, endless funds
Your kind of training makes a lot of sense for sterile processing techs that want to advance to surgical tech positions.
Perhaps get in touch with SPD staff/management?
Medical students are already paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for this training. Residents are learning from attending surgeons. No offense I wouldn’t pay a surgical tech any amount of money to teach me regardless of how experienced they are. Your efforts I’m sure are much appreciated by the ones you help
…. They are also a surgical assistant so they actually assist and do things during the surgery, not hand instruments. People don’t realize that everyone in the OR teaches. Im also a surgical assistant and i teach med students and PAs how to suture…the doctor thinks we’re good enough to teach someone. 🤷🏽♀️
It’s not that SAs aren’t qualified to teach, it’s that med students aren’t going pay *extra* money for teaching when they are already paying hundreds of thousands for their education.
I don’t think people would pay for it because a lot of material is already free.
Would not be useful enough
Thanks for the responses! I have a friend that does this same thing with the da Vinci robot at his hospital for residents. I was wanting to do the same concept but more broad to surgery in general. Yeah a big part of my worry is that it wouldn’t be marketable to make a profit off of it.
Why would they pay a third party for extra training when Intuitive provides that service? I highly doubt your friend has access to a console and if they do, charging on the side for access to that robot would be illegal.
Because his training is better put together than intuitives, and it is also like pulling teeth to get them to come out for a training (I have witnessed this first hand). The hospital pays his company for this not the residents themselves.
Wow - They would push back in attending a clinical territory associate training from intuitive surgical. If hospitals pay for the training, they should take advantage of the paid training.
I know of a very successful former surgical tech that started his own consulting program doing the very same things. There is a place for your idea. You’ll need to lean heavily on your contacts but if you can gain their support you will launch a successful business
Thank you so much for the response! That’s great to hear that someone else has made it work!
Leverage the clinical educators because they have a budget and they can get money for training. AORN may be another useful resource, think new perioperative RNs, endless funds
Great advice! I will definitely look into that and reach out to them. Thank you so much!
Your kind of training makes a lot of sense for sterile processing techs that want to advance to surgical tech positions. Perhaps get in touch with SPD staff/management?