Association of Surgical Assistants
The ASA seeks to unite professionals from diverse backgrounds, including Certified Surgical First Assistants (CSFAs), Certified Surgical Assistants (CSAs), and Surgical Assistants-Certified (SA-Cs), and to advance the allied health profession of surgical assisting.
Association of Surgical Technologists
AST's primary purpose is to ensure that surgical technologists have the knowledge and skills to administer patient care of the highest quality.
Innerbody
includes resources such as an anatomy explorer, telehealth, nutrition, and health products.
Martindale Virtual Center for Anesthesiology and Surgery
Resources about Surgery and Anesthesiology such as cases, atlases and courses.
Medical Library Association (Top Health Websites)
The Consumer and Patient Health Information Services Caucus (CAPHIS) of MLA evaluates websites based on the following criteria: credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, currency (timeliness), disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers. The following websites have been deemed particularly useful (in each area, sites are listed in alphabetical, NOT ranked, order).
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of healthcare for all Americans. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the healthcare system and help consumers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CDC is the nation’s leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public’s health.
Medline Plus (Surgery)
MedlinePlus is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
The mission of NCCIH is to determine, through rigorous scientific investigation, the fundamental science, usefulness, and safety of complementary and integrative health approaches and their roles in improving health and health care.
National Institute of Health
NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine started in 1836 as a small collection of medical books and journals in the office of the United States Army Surgeon General. NLM now partners with over 20 nations and has expanded its outreach efforts to consumers and health professionals around the globe.
Texas Department of Health and Human Services
Official website of the Texas Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.
World Health Organization
Official website of the WHO.
National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting
The mission of the NBSTSA is to be the gold standard provider of professional certification of surgical technologists (CST®) and surgical first assistants (CSFA®), supporting continuing education, thus promoting superior patient care in the surgical setting.
Smith County Medical Society
The Mission of the Smith County Medical Society is to promote and encourage the highest standards of ethical medical practice for the benefit of the community and to serve as an advocate for the physicians of the Smith County Medical Society in achieving this end.
Smith County Medical Society Alliance
SMCMSA mission is to strengthen, support and serve medical families and to nurture and encourage a healthy community.
Texas Surgical Society
Mission: Advancing the science and art of surgery since 1915
U.S. Department of Labor Statistics (Surgical Assistants and Technologists)
Occupation information from the United States Department of Labor.
WebSurg
WebSurg is the IRCAD’s free, online university. Launched by Professor Jacques Marescaux and his team at the European Institute of TeleSurgery (EITS) in Strasbourg in 2000, WebSurg specializes in minimally invasive surgery and is dedicated to promoting medical and surgical training skills. Created for surgeons by surgeons, WebSurg facilitates their training and enables them to communicate with other experts from all over the world.