“An important aim of continuing education is to improve professional practice so that patients can receive improved health care.”

In 2005, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews published a study on the educational impact of different CME meeting formats. In assessing the effects of educational meetings on professional practice and healthcare outcomes, the researchers concluded that “interactive workshops can result in moderately large changes in professional practice. Didactic sessions alone are unlikely to change professional practice.”

By providing a unique meeting format combining video case studies, audience interactivity, didactic presentations, and faculty debate, our goal is to create positive change in physician practice and impart critical insights into both patient and disease management.

Another Cochrane study published in 2005 states “Communication problems in health care may arise as a result of health care providers focusing on diseases and their management, rather than people, their lives and their health problems.”

As such, the Collective Clinical Forum is patient-centric, needs-oriented education that engages the learner to create a dialogue, not a monologue, with the end goal of improved patient care. 

Ultimately, the Collective Clinical Forum seeks to revolutionize the way in which clinicians learn and apply clinical scientific data.  It is each individual’s responsibility to learn, but it is our responsibility to create the best environment in which to do it.