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SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTING FELLOWSHIP
Build the experience. Strengthen your skills. Move your surgical career forward.
A 6-month hands-on fellowship in Orlando, Florida designed for healthcare professionals who want structured mentorship, real-world OR exposure, surgical assisting experience, and professional development.
Created for:
International Medical Graduates (IMGs) • SA-Cs • PAs • APRNs • Qualified Healthcare Professionals
Your Degree Was the Beginning. Experience Is What Comes Next
For many healthcare professionals, the biggest challenge is not education.
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It is finding opportunities to develop real operating room experience, surgical assisting skills, professional confidence, and meaningful exposure to the U.S. surgical environment.
Superior Surgical Assisting created the Surgical First Assisting Fellowship to help bridge that gap.
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Our fellowship combines structured mentorship, hands-on development, exposure to surgical cases, and professional guidance so participants can continue building on the education they already have.
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You are not starting over.
You are building the next layer of your career.
A Fellowship Built Around the Real OR
This is not simply classroom training.
The program is designed to help participants understand how surgical assisting functions in real clinical environments and develop the awareness, technique, professionalism, and confidence expected inside the operating room.
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During the fellowship, participants may gain experience in:
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Hands-on surgical assisting development
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Operating room exposure
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Real surgical case experience, as appropriate
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Surgical workflow and OR expectations
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Suturing and technical skill development
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Instrument handling
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Communication within the surgical team
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Anticipating surgeon and case needs
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Professional mentorship
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Case preparation
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Confidence and decision-making in surgical environments
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Career and professional development
THE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Hands-On Learning
Duration: 6 Months
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Location: Orlando, Florida
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Format: Surgical First Assisting Fellowship
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Training Style: Hands-on + Mentorship + OR Exposure
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Designed For: IMGs, SA-Cs, PAs, APRNs and qualified healthcare professionals
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Focus: Surgical Assisting Skills, OR Experience and Professional Development
Why This Fellowship Is Different
Why This Fellowship Is Different
We work in the environment we train you for.
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Superior Surgical Assisting is not only a training organization.
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We are a working surgical assisting and staffing company supporting surgeons, hospitals, surgical facilities, and healthcare teams throughout Florida.
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That means our training philosophy comes directly from the realities of the OR.
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We understand what surgeons expect.
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We understand what surgical teams need.
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And we understand the gap many professionals face between education and real-world experience.
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That perspective is built into the fellowship.
THE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Hands-On Learning
Duration: 6 Months
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Location: Orlando, Florida
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Format: Surgical First Assisting Fellowship
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Training Style: Hands-on + Mentorship + OR Exposure
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Designed For: IMGs, SA-Cs, PAs, APRNs and qualified healthcare professionals
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Focus: Surgical Assisting Skills, OR Experience and Professional Development
FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES
Your Medical Education Still Matters.
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If you earned your medical degree outside of the United States, you may already have years of education, clinical knowledge, and experience behind you. But entering the U.S. healthcare environment can present a completely different challenge:
How do you gain relevant U.S. experience and build a new professional pathway?
Our fellowship gives qualified International Medical Graduates an opportunity to build on their medical background while developing surgical assisting skills and greater familiarity with the U.S. operating room environment.
Through mentorship, hands-on development, and exposure to real surgical workflows, participants can strengthen their understanding of:
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U.S. OR culture and expectations
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Surgical assisting responsibilities
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Communication within surgical teams
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Case preparation and workflow
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Technical surgical skills
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Professional expectations
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Career pathways within surgical assisting
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You do not have to erase your previous experience.
You can build on it.
Did you already contact our team?
If they gave you the green light (this is not for everyone), join the fellowship now!
Payment options available.
Learn from professionals who understand the realities of the OR through mentorship that develops both technical ability and professional judgment. Participants build skills in awareness, anticipation, communication, preparation, and staying composed under pressure, while gaining exposure to real surgical environments and workflows that help turn theory into practical understanding.
Depending on qualifications, credentialing, program requirements, and case availability, participants may experience a range of specialties and procedures while becoming more familiar with the pace, expectations, teamwork, and responsibilities of the operating room.
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Our Founder
Analyer Medina,
CSFA & Founder of Superior Surgical Assisting, LLC
Analyer Medina, CSFA, founded Superior Surgical Assisting in 2014 with a mission to create opportunities for Certified Surgical First Assistants and elevate the role of skilled surgical professionals in the operating room. After relocating from South Florida to Central Florida, she quickly realized that Certified Surgical First Assistants were not widely recognized or hired in many hospital settings. Rather than giving up, Analyer accepted a position as a Certified Surgical Technologist while continuing to build the vision that would become Superior Surgical Assisting.
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Her 12 years at AdventHealth Celebration, including her experience as part of the Global Robotics Institute’s robotic surgery team, gave her the hands-on expertise, discipline, and confidence needed to become the “second set of skilled hands” surgeons depend on. Today, through Superior Surgical Assisting, Analyer is proud to inspire surgical technologists and healthcare professionals to advance their careers, believe in their potential, and create new paths in surgical assisting.
Testimonials
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