Congratulations to UMMC’s first class of 14 graduates from the new Perioperative Services Training, Apprenticeship and Clinical Experience. The program provides high school students and apprentices in Baltimore with the skills needed to begin a healthcare career in the operating room as a certified surgical technologist or a central sterile processor. Among those honored today, six graduates from Edmondson-Westside High School received classroom instruction and observed 120 surgeries as part of