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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits
Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.
Interested in learning about the core principles of surgical quality and safety and how they can be applied to your quality improvement projects? Check this page for updates regarding our in-person quality improvement workshops at the 2024 Quality and Safety Conference.
To sign up, simply add a preconference workshop while registering for the Quality and Safety Conference. Find cost information and register today on our Registration page.
QI Basics Preconference Workshop
This workshop is based on the self-paced, online ACS Quality Improvement Course: The Basics. It provides a guided and hands-on approach to the topics covered in the online course, complete with discussions and activities. In addition to learning practical strategies for overcoming common obstacles, participants learn the fundamentals of the major components of quality improvement projects: QI methodology, the use of data, the importance of teamwork, and stakeholder engagement. Workshop participants are given complimentary access to the online ACS Quality Improvement Course: The Basics as part of their workshop registration.
Watch the 2024 promotional video below:
How to Not Fail at Failing: Mastering the Art of Learning from Failure in Quality Improvement Preconference Workshop
In this hands-on preconference workshop, participants will master the art of learning from failure in quality improvement. Lectures and activities will touch on why QI projects fail, how to prepare for failure, and strategies to overcome common barriers. This workshop is recommended for audiences who have some quality improvement experience.
From Apprentice to Master Preconference Workshop
This four-hour interactive workshop is included in the conference registration fee and is geared toward the novice SCR/MBSCR working with Adult NSQIP, NSQIP Pediatric, or MBSAQIP. In this session we will discuss data abstraction techniques, raw/risk adjusted reports, and ways to communicate results to improve quality improvement efforts.
Harmonizing Excellence: A Symphony of Quality Improvement Preconference Workshop
This four-hour interactive workshop is included in the conference registration fee and is aimed to provide SCRs/MBSCRs working with Adult NSQIP, NSQIP Pediatric, or MBSAQIP the tools to interpret your program’s data, implement the quality framework using ACS quality program data and gain insight from a NSQIP site on how they maintain QI projects over time. This is a great workshop for those SCRs/MBSCRs from sites looking to achieve or sustain verification in various ACS Quality Programs.
Health Services Research Methods Course
Join our Health Services Research Methods Course for a thorough introduction to health services and outcomes research. This multi-day workshop covers everything from getting support for your research, creating interview guides, choosing frameworks, to implementing evidence-based practices and more. You will learn from top surgeon scientists through engaging discussions about both the science and practice of current surgical health research.
Registration to the full conference is required to access this workshop, but by signing up you get exclusive access to three more focused and hands-on activities on Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20. These sessions cover topics like:
Writing for impact and visual abstracts
Conducting open-code and high-level quantitative analysis
Incorporating emerging neighborhood index measures
