These teacher and student editions provide instructional materials for an introduction to surgical technology course. Introductory materials in the teacher edition include information on use, instructional/task analysis, academic and workplace skill classifications and definitions, related academic and workplace skill list, and crosswalk to Association of Surgical Technologists core curriculum objectives. Each module of instruction in the teacher edition includes some or all of these components: suggested activities, transparency masters, teacher supplements, written test and key, assignment sheets answers, optional assignment sheets and answers, and module review and answers. Each module in the student edition includes some or all of these components: learning activities sheet, module objective sheet, information sheet, student supplements, assignment sheets, and job sheets. Modules are designed for more than one lesson or class period of instruction. These four sections contain 17 modules as follows: orientation to surgical technology (professional responsibilities and relations, interpersonal relationships and communication skills, legal and ethical responsibilities); safety (environmental, work place); microbiology (introduction, infection and immunology, wound healing); pharmacology (basic math, weights and measures, syringes and hypodermic needles, pharmacologic agents, anesthesia); and biomedical science (computer skills, electricity, applied physics, robotics). (YLB)