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Offer Online QI Basics Course to All Members of Your Surgical Team—and Save

April 2, 2024

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Encourage everyone on your team to become well-educated on the basic principles of surgical quality and safety.

The ACS Quality Improvement Course: The Basics is available to purchase in the ACS Store, and a discounted rate is available for groups of 20 or more. Contact acsqualitycourse@facs.org for more information about special pricing.

The self-paced course includes six modules: 

  • Introduction to Quality Improvement: Quality improvement concepts and the rationale for investing in quality 
  • The Quality Improvement Process: How quality improvement happens and how to begin a quality improvement project 
  • Data Measurement and Analysis: How data are used throughout a quality improvement project and some of the fundamental tools that can help to display and analyze data 
  • Change Management: How change happens and the factors that affect the change process, and how implementation science can be used throughout a quality improvement project 
  • Patient Safety: The role of culture in maintaining and improving patient safety, the characteristics of high-reliability organizations, and how to evaluate and improve your institution’s safety culture 
  • Leadership and Teamwork for QI: What defines effective leadership and teamwork and how to develop and evaluate teamwork and leadership skills 

Course participants will receive a Certificate of Completion upon passing a 2-hour exam. The course also qualifies for 20 continuing medical education credits or 20 continuing nursing education credit hours for those who complete the course and pass the exam with a score of 70% or higher.

Learn more and register today!