The surgical assistant certification gives international medical graduates and other healthcare professionals the opportunity to gain some experience in the United States… fellowship program without going through a long, complex and cumbersome… many people who has taken this route are already taking the benefits of this opportunity.
United States employment-based permanent residency
When completed, Surgical Assistant Certification, provide international medical graduates and other healthcare professionals with an additional strong eligibility criteria for granting the preference category EB-1 Visa. Applicants to this type of Visa are not required to have a permanent offer of employment in the US, are eligible to self petition and obtain a permanent residency in the United States.
- When employment-based residency is granted, the Surgical Assistant Certification provides a superior qualification to the international medical graduate or other healthcare professional for accessing more employment opportunities and obtain direct hands-on patient care experience.
- All over the United States, many hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers are currently looking for certified surgical assistants professionals with any international medical, surgical or dental background (foreign physicians, physicians residents, physicians specialists, registered nurse first assistants, general dentists, or oral maxillofacial surgeons) to be able to assist their surgeons to perform complex surgical procedures. Dental and Oral Healthcare Professionals certified as Surgical Assistants get into a more straightforward process to get a job into the Oral and Maxillofacial surgical field.
- Since the path to United States practice is long and slow for international medical graduates, international general dentists or international registered nurse first assistants, many of them have consider the option of being first certified and work as Surgical First Assistants. This additional and rewarding career choice closely related to their medical, dental or surgical professions opens a variety of employment opportunities that pays good enough to live a comfortable lifestyle while they study and get involved into the testing process toward becoming a licensed doctor or other licensed healthcare professional in the United States.