Getting Started with Surgical Quality Improvement in Resource-Constrained Settings: Introducing the ACS QI Basics Course for LMICs

Quality improvement is essential to safer surgical care, better outcomes, and stronger health systems. Yet many surgeons, trainees, and hospital teams working in low- and middle-income countries face real barriers to starting and sustaining QI work, including limited data systems, workforce constraints, and competing clinical demands.

This webinar will introduce practical approaches to launching quality improvement initiatives in resource-constrained settings and highlight the ACS Quality Improvement Basics Course for LMICs as a tool to support that work. Speakers will review foundational QI concepts, discuss how to identify feasible projects, and share examples of how small, well-designed efforts can lead to meaningful improvements in care. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of where to start, what tools are most useful, and how the ACS course can support local QI efforts. 

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Moderators

Robert Parker MD, MPH, FACS, FCS (ECSA)

General Surgeon, Tenwek Hospital
Bomet, Kenya

Panelists

Britney L. Grayson, MD, PhD

Pediatric Surgeon and Chief Medical Officer, BethanyKids
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine
Nairobi, Kenya

S. Nabeel Zafar, MD, MPH, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI