Career in Operation Theatre Technology

1. Career In Operation Theatre Technology

2. Skills Needed • An eye for detail, accuracy and critical thinking is a must. Apart from the fundamental educational requirement, outstanding scientific skills, communication skills and behavioral skills are necessary for surgical technologists. • Team work is essential as this job necessitate the person to work in partnership with other healthcare providers. Other prerequisites necessary are optimistic attitude, compassion and high levels of endurance and dedication. • They must have the aptitude to work under minimal regulation, unpredictable shifts and long hours and must remain alert during operations. Surgical technologist also must have outstanding deftness to grip various instruments in complicated ways.

3. Career Prospects • It is the Operation Theatre Technician who supervises the circumstances in the operating room and continually measures the requirement of the patient and surgical team. • Surgical team members function in two capacities, i.e. nonsterile and sterile. • Throughout a surgical procedure, the area right away nearby the patient is referred to as the sterile field and anyone functioning in the sterile field must scrub and put on sterile gloves and a gown. • The sterile team members are the doctor, the surgical assistant, and the surgical technologist. During the surgery, scrub technicians in sterile field offer suction and retraction as engaged, and hand the surgeon any essential instruments, sponges and other items.

4. AcademicQualification • Diploma in Operation Theatre Technician, BSc Surgical Technology and MSc Surgical Technology are the main courses in the field of OTT. • The eligibility criteria for the 2 year Diploma and 3 year B.Sc. course are 10+2/ intermediate pass or its equal. • The applicants should have a minimum of 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics in the 12th standard board examination. • A number of institutes put forward 3 year diploma and 1 year certificate course for individuals who have passed 10th/ matriculation. • Course curriculum of surgical technology includes: meticulous classroom training in subjects like Anatomy and Physiology, Biomedical Science, Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology etc. 

5. Operation Theatre Technology Colleges There are many paramedical institutes as well as hospitals across the country that offers courses in Surgical Technology/ Operation Theatre Technology. The courses offered by the hospital are generally associated with a college or university. Institutes/ Colleges offering this course are as follows: • Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune • Delhi Paramedical and Management Institute (DPMI) • Council of Education and Development Program (CEDP Skill Institute), Mumbai • Institute of Paramedical, Management and Technologies (IPMT), New Delhi

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