Sowela’s Technical Community College-Morgan Smith campus is enhancing its surgical training programs with newly expanded $350,000 surgical technology and sterile processing labs. The updated allied ...

Moberly Area Community College surgical technology program student Carleigh Phillips, 22, right, prepares to give Kenzie Marty, 19, a surgical instrument Tuesday during a passing technique exercise.

Medical errors can have devastating consequences for patients, and one of the most alarming errors is the retention of surgical items in a patient’s body after surgery. Retained surgical items (RSIs) ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.