“Each year MEDLINE indexes over 560,000 new articles and Cochrane Central adds about 20,000 new randomized controlled trials. This is about 1500 new articles and 55 trials per day.”*

* American College of Physicians Journal Club
Volume 42, number 2, March/April 2005

The Center for Collaborative Medical Education Provides:

1.  The principles of Translational Medicine which allow busy clinicians the means to cope with the overwhelming volume of the medical literature and the skills to locate, appraise and utilize those articles that are valid and useful for the care of individual patients.

2.  The use of knowledge management in Evidence-Based Practice so that patients receive the best current treatment.

3. Time sensitive learning programs customized for small or large groups, lectures, journal clubs and clinical rounds.

4. Curriculum development for medical schools, nursing schools and others that weaves the new logic of Evidence-Based Healthcare into a clinical continuum that results in improved learning for students and quality care for patients.

5. Assistance for insurance carrier and hospital risk managers in the development of preventive programs to reduce the incidence of adverse events which lead to malpractice lawsuits.

6. The practical uses of Evidence-Based Healthcare for defense and plaintiff attorneys so  that  successful  case  preparation utilizes  the logic of medical
evidence at  a  time when  it is influencing  the definition of  the standard of
care and the qualifications for expert witnesses.

Dr. Marvin H. Waldman is the Director of the Center for Collaborative Medical Education and a member of the University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. He has extensive clinical experience from over 25 years in practice and has successfully taught EBM to physicians,nurses and residents. In 2006 Dr. Waldman was one of only five Americans invited to attend the 12th Oxford Workshop on Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care. He has also studied Evidence-Based Medicine at McMaster and Duke Universities and has done evidence-based reviews for the ACP Journal Club and British Medical Journal. For ten years he was a member of the Clinical Research Design Committee at the John D. Dingell Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center in Detroit. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois and a Master of Science in Clinical Research and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan.