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Institute of Health Sciences Education - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Dr Dason Evans

Dason

Reader in Medical Education; Head of Clinical Skills

Email: d.e.evans@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

I am passionate about (1) improving clinical skills teaching, learning and assessment (particularly learning); (2) supporting students (and doctors) in academic difficulty; and (3) teaching others about teaching and learning. I have worked at Queen Mary, on and off, since 2000 – influenced by many fantastic colleagues and students (some of whom are now colleagues).

I head up the clinical skills curriculum – those hands-on skills that form the human interface between medical knowledge and the patient. In the past I have had significant/leadership roles in developing and running the first intercalated BSc in medical education in the UK, running an innovative and award-winning academic support programme, designing/running modules in our local MA in medical education as well as an international FAIMER masters. I have led on the design of a number of clinical skills centres and spent two years in the Mediterranean helping to set up clinical skills and clinical teaching in our satellite medical school there. Internationally I have worked for many years with colleagues in Pakistan around reforming undergraduate programmes and faculty development, and I lead on an innovative clinical skills thread in the undergraduate medial curriculum in a joint programme between QMUL and Nanchang University.

Clinically I have been a sexual health doctor for many years, and so I am committed to diversity and expression of individuality. Of course, I have taught, researched and written a bit about undergraduate and postgraduate sexual health education.

With my colleague and good friend Jo Brown, we wrote two editions of the leading textbook on study skills for medical students, along with some book chapters around academic support. I’ve written a text on learning in the clinical environment, that started out as a project with an ex-student.

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