The 12-Week Medical Device Sales Training Program.
MedRep Academy is a full-time, in-person program. Cohorts gather at our Atlanta campus from across the country. Students come from every region and every professional background. Over twelve weeks they move through four pillars and graduate with a GNPEC-authorized certificate, 30+ OR cases documented, and the credentialing a hiring manager expects to see on day one.
Device hiring is broken. We cut the loop.
Companies want reps who can contribute on their first day, but the only way to build that credibility is inside the OR, and the only way into the OR is to already be hired. MedRep Academy cuts through that loop. Every admitted student gets the clinical knowledge, procedural exposure, and professional foundation that typically takes twelve to eighteen months to accumulate on the job.
Every week of the program maps to one of these.
Classroom, OR, logistics, and launch. The sequence is deliberate: you don't walk into a case before you can name what's in the tray, and you don't interview before you've done both.
Clinical Foundation
The first weeks are classroom-heavy. Students build a working knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and the surgical procedures they'll see in the field. By the end of the pillar, you can follow a surgeon's pre-op discussion.
- Regulatory, safety, and ethics — HIPAA, facility credentialing, Sunshine Act, basic device regulations
- Anatomy and functionality — the body systems most relevant to orthopedic, spine, and soft-tissue procedures
- Fixation, fusion, and healing basics — what actually happens at the tissue level
- Reading X-rays, MRI, and CT — enough to follow a surgeon's pre-op discussion
- Biologics — grafts, allografts, autografts, and when each is indicated
Live Surgical Cases
Where MedRep Academy separates itself. Students observe 30+ live surgical cases in partner facilities: real procedures, real patients, supervised by surgeons who have love to teach. You're in the room with the clinical team, watching instrumentation get laid out, watching the sequence of every cut, learning what the rep in the corner is actually doing and when.
By the time you leave this pillar, you've seen more OR time than most first-year reps see in their first six months of employment. For details on the case mix, see our Surgical Cases page.
Field Logistics
This is the pillar that separates reps who get hired from reps who get promoted. Nobody teaches new reps how to run a tray, coordinate a loaner set, or navigate a hospital's credentialing process: you learn it on the fly, or you fail. MedRep Academy covers it directly:
- Basic surgical instrumentation — how to identify what's on a mayo at a glance
- Navigating a hospital or ASC — who to talk to, badge and credentialing systems, OR etiquette
- Tray management and loaner coordination — the logistics that the case actually runs on
- Territory planning and account routines — the sales discipline that allow reps compound a territory
- Finding your voice and OR command — how to speak up without getting in the way
Career Readiness
The final weeks are focused on landing the job. Students build a portfolio of observed cases, refine their resume and LinkedIn presence, and go through interview preparation built around the specific demands of medical device sales. Our instructors and founders pull directly from their own hiring benchmarks: this isn't generic career coaching, it's a debrief from the other side of the desk.
By week twelve you have: a portfolio, a story, a plan, and direct access to our network of hiring managers who know what to expect from a MedRep graduate.
Thirteen modules. One certificate.
Every module maps to one of the four pillars. Every module is assessed. The certificate is GNPEC-authorized and recognized by hiring managers nationwide.
The twelve weeks are demanding.
The program is in-person only: no remote or hybrid option and the case schedule follows real OR hours, which means early mornings. Students relocate to Atlanta for the cohort; we can recommend short-term housing partners.
If you're looking for an online course you can watch on your lunch break, this isn't it. If you're looking for something that treats medical device sales like the serious career it is, apply below.
Apply for the next cohort.
Applications take about five minutes. Admissions are rolling across our Spring, Summer, and Fall cohorts.