Newsletter

This is a reminder that Standard V.A.4. requires that the sponsoring institution [school] publish programmatic outcomes in a readily accessible place.

The new Maximum Enrollment Capacity (MEC) Attestations form is now available on the ARC/STSA website under Forms and Facts for your convenience. 

Big changes are coming to the 2018 ARC/STSA Annual Report. Learn what it means for ARC/STSA's surgical technology and surgical assisting education programs

The ARC/STSA Board of Directors has awarded scholarships to students and educators each year, since 2005. This year, recipients will be awarded a total of up to $6,000 in combined scholarships. We asked a few 2017 recipients what the scholarship meant to them. Their testimonies, shared below, affirm the impact that the ARC/STSA scholarships have had and the importance of taking action to further your professional development.

The ARC/STSA is pleased to welcome Kellie M. McFarlin, MD, FACS, to its Board of Directors. McFarlin is a senior staff member of the Henry Ford Hospital’s Department of Surgery and a clinical assistant professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. She will hold a three-year term concluding in December of 2020.

Board members and staff presented the Accreditation Fundamentals for Educators (AFE) Workshop to an enthusiastic group of nearly 90 surgical technology and surgical assisting educators on February 8, in Charleston, South Carolina.