A student described performing brain surgery in the operating room.

The other provides details of the leg amputation.

There are also students who perform caesarean sections, robotic prostate surgery, and spinal fusion surgery in the room.

This is part of the morning clinical rotation of students from the Surgical Technology Program at the Moberly District Community College.

Now back to the classroom, the students put on surgical gowns, gloves and masks in the simulated surgical device, and test their understanding of surgical instruments and their ability to correctly deliver them to the surgeon.

Echoing the evolution of the plan, the courses are held at the Columbia Regional Career Center established by the plan. The new regulations require that the certification of foreign technologists requires a two-year associate degree course, while the vocational center course is a one-year course.

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So it transitioned to Moberley Regional Community College. The last CACC surgical technique class graduated in 2019. There is a year between the end of the CACC project and the beginning of the MACC project, which roughly corresponds to the height of the pandemic.

Another retainer of the Career Center program is Carrie DeLine. As a surgical technologist, she is the project director of the Surgical Technology Program at Moberley Regional Community College.

DeLine said that the year between the plans allowed the MACC program to be recognized.

The current class is the second class. She said that the prerequisites will take about one year, and professional training will take place the following year.

DeLine said, "We have performed more than 700 clinical hours of work in the hospital."

The surgical technician prepares the sterile instruments for the operation before the operation and prepares them when the surgeon arrives. They scrub and maintain sterility during the operation and pass the instruments to the surgeon when the surgeon needs it.

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She said that this is not a well-known profession.

"Everyone knows about nursing," DeLine said. "No one knows what a surgical technologist is, because people fall asleep during the operation."

But she said that this is a job that is in high demand. On the day she spoke, there were seven surgical technicians vacant in the local hospital. In Colombia, the starting salary for foreign technologists is $18.50 to $19 per hour.

She said that during the break, she engaged in travel technology to make money.

There are currently 10 students in the class.

For 18-year-old Lena Kolostov, surgical technology is a stepping stone to entering medical school. She is the youngest student in the class and graduated from Hickman High School in May.

"I want to go to medical school," Kolostov said. "As long as I have first-hand experience, it will help me. This is also a good field."

She said it would also allow her to make money while she is in school.

She said: "Everything I learned in school will be strengthened in the operating room."

Others have found different paths.

"I wanted to be a nurse at first," said 22-year-old Alea Applegate.

She said that learning dozens of musical instruments is very difficult. When she might scratch her nose unconsciously, the same is true of maintaining sterility in the operating room.

She said that it is fun to learn new things and experience things that most people don't have.

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A family friend who participated in the program aroused Kenzie Marty's interest. From Centralia, she is 19 years old.

She observed robotic surgery, the surgical technician cleaned the instruments and connected them to the robot.

"I have always been interested in healthcare," Marty said. "The operating room has always been fun for me. This is something that many people cannot do."

19-year-old Isaiah Thomas from Keytesville is also using surgical techniques as a way to enter medical school.

Thomas said: "I am trying to decide what is the best way to go to medical school." "Medical school is not cheap."

He said that surgical techniques will bring him valuable experience and even more.

"I can see things that most medical students have never seen before," he said.