The purpose of the Manchester campus-Hartford Hospital Surgical Technology program is to educate individuals in surgical technology.

The goal of this program is to provide students with the opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to gain employment as entry-level surgical technologists and become contributing members of the health care team in accordance with the Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (ARC/STSA) required minimum expectation statement for surgical technology programs “to prepare competent, entry-level surgical technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.” This will be accomplished by preparing competent graduates through didactic coursework in the cognitive learning domain and through clinical scrub experience in the psychomotor and affective learning domains. The program goal meets or exceeds the criteria set forth in the current Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) Standards and Guidelines for the Accreditation of Educational Programs in Surgical Technology.