John Evans

John Evans MD was appointed founding dean of McMaster’s Faculty of Medicine in 1965, serving until 1972. Under his leadership, a group of innovative educators began developing an undergraduate medical program that defied convention by emphasizing self–directed learning. Evans pioneered the problem–based learning curriculum that influenced health care education worldwide and became the hallmark of McMaster’s integrated Faculty of Health Sciences. Evans also made significant contributions as an international health adviser and researcher, conducting a global study of public health and population-based medicine in 1979 and chairing the international Commission on Health Research for Development in 1988.

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