Campus

Berlin-Buch

Beginning

April 1/October 1

Compensation

by the training provider

Length of time

3 years

Become an active part of the surgical team.

Surgical technical assistants (OTA) ensure that operations run smoothly and, together with the surgeons and the anesthesia team, form the surgical team. The focus of the OTA's tasks is to assist with the preparation, implementation and follow-up of medical diagnostic and therapeutic measures and to provide comprehensive care for patients in these areas of work. The training enables the trainee to carry out certain tasks independently or as part of a collaboration and to work in an interdisciplinary manner with other professional groups. The aim of the training is to learn to be a professional surgical technical assistant in accordance with generally accepted technical, scientific and medical knowledge in order to be able to:

  • to provide expert care to patients during their stay in the operating room and functional department, taking into account their physical and psychological situation,
  • to independently organize and coordinate the work processes in the functional departments,
  • preparing and de-preparing the operating room,
  • To prepare operations, including instruments and medical equipment,
  • to support the surgical team before, during and after the operation (sterile and non-sterile assistance),
  • To demonstrate specialist knowledge in various specialist areas,
  • to handle medical devices and materials properly,
  • To take responsibility for the implementation of hygienic measures and aseptic working practices,
  • to carry out administrative tasks,
  • to work in an interdisciplinary manner with other professional groups.

After completing your training, you will be a state-recognized surgical assistant for hospitals, in medical care centers, in outpatient surgical facilities, in endoscopy, in the cardiac catheter laboratory or in the processing unit for medical devices (central sterilization department)

Surgical assistant

The training concept of the 3 learning locations

We are convinced that professionals who want to work in the healthcare sector must have cross-functional and cross-sector thinking, coupled with a professional attitude. The academy's didactic concept, learning at three learning locations, interprofessional teaching and learning arrangements and interaction with new technologies are the academy's future-oriented paths, together with its practice partners from the healthcare sector.

Learning Place THEORY – Professional skills and competencies build on knowledge

  • Lectures and case-based seminars convey the technical fundamentals and contexts of the respective profession. Interprofessional events broaden your own professional perspective and understanding of other professional groups in the healthcare sector.
  • Independent and individual learning is made possible, among other things, through the use of new media.

Learning location TRAINING & TRANSFER (LTT) – Practice and training in a protected space

  • In the Training & Transfer learning area, participants should train and consolidate skills and abilities in a setting that is as authentic as possible. Unlike in real working life, mistakes do not have any serious consequences, but rather play an important role in the learning process. Learning with and from one another also plays an important role in this area.
  • The teachers take on the role of coaches in this area. The individual prior knowledge and experience of the participants are actively integrated and the content is tailored accordingly. The learning process is supported and accompanied by intensive reflection on learning progress.

Learning Place PRAXIS – Learning under Real Conditions

  • Professional practice completes the training process with specific situations and tasks. Depending on the level of training, there are targeted practical phases in which the participants can test and further develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes they have learned.
  • The training participants are expertly guided and accompanied by staff in the practice facilities and teachers at the academy.
  • Collected experiences and events serve as a starting point for the further professional learning process in the theory and LTT learning areas and are taken up in the courses and appropriately taken into account.
  • The practical learning takes place in the respective training centers of the training participants (hospitals, inpatient and outpatient care facilities) as well as other institutions involved in the training.

At least one of the following qualifications:

  • secondary school leaving certificate or other equivalent school leaving certificate
  • Secondary school certificate or an educational qualification recognized as equivalent with successfully completed vocational training
    • in a profession for which a regular training period of at least two years is required,
    • in a state-regulated assistant or helper training in nursing of at least one year's duration, which meets the minimum requirements decided by the Conference of Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs in 2012 and the Conference of Ministers of Health in 2013 in the "Key points for training in assistant and helper professions in nursing that are the responsibility of the states" (BAnz AT 17.02.2016 B3)
    • in a training course in nursing assistance or geriatric care assistance that was started and successfully completed by 31 December 2020 and is regulated by state law and lasts at least one year each
  • Proof of health suitability
  • Proof of hepatitis A+B vaccination; measles vaccination; complete corona vaccination protection (to be submitted only after a successful interview)
  • Training contract with a training provider (see application)
  • Recommendation of an internship in the functional area

At the Academy of Health, the 3-year training to become an operating room assistant includes participation in the “Radiation Protection Course” and the “Basic Life Support” course.

The training and examination is based on the law on the training of anaesthetic technical assistants and on the training of operating room technical assistants (ATA-OTA-G) and the current version of the training and examination regulations (ATA-OTA-APrV).

Admission to the exam is granted if the training has been attended regularly and successfully. The final exam is divided into a written, a practical and an oral part. Passing the exam is a prerequisite for being granted a professional license.

After passing the examination, the participants will receive the qualification
"state-certified surgical assistant"

The applicant management for this training takes place directly at one of the member companies/cooperation partners of the Academy of Health ( overview of training institutions ).

We are happy to provide training participants with individual advice.

Campus Berlin-Buch

Your contact person:
Ms. Ä. Nagel-Wischnewski