Dr Dason Evans

Head of Faculty Development, Reader in Medical Education
Email: d.e.evans@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Malta Campus
Profile
I am passionate about:
- Teaching others about teaching and learning;
- Improving clinical skills teaching, learning and assessment (particularly learning);
- Supporting students (and doctors) in academic difficulty.
I have worked at Queen Mary, on and off, since 2000 – influenced by many fantastic colleagues and students (some of whom are now colleagues).
Until I came on secondment to Malta in January 2024, I was the lead for clinical skills for the Queen Mary MBBS 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 in-house Masters 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 previously in Gozo, helping to set up clinical skills and clinical teaching here – it is great to be back. 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 Queen Mary and Nanchang University, China.
My role at Queen Mary, Malta is to lead on setting up and delivering a faculty development programme to help us all develop our knowledge and skills around teaching and helping students learn.
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 have co-authored a textbook on learning in the clinical environment, that started out as a project with an ex-student.