Navigating the Emerging Patient Journey to Build a New Innovation Playbook for Health Professions Education

Drawing from his diverse background in frontline medicine, public education, and his work at Apple, Dr. Evans will explore and untangle the evolving landscape of patient engagement and its implications for health professions education.

Description

Drawing from his diverse background in frontline medicine, public education, and his work at Apple, Dr. Evans will explore and untangle the evolving landscape of patient engagement and its implications for health professions education.

The presentation will delve into several key challenges and opportunities:

  • How your patients (not all!) are solving their health questions is changing. Starting with where that is going and how traditional healthcare is losing
  • How wearable technology is transforming from simple tracking devices to sophisticated health management tools and how you can pick the high ROI items. Getting a handle on AI as a patient coach.
  • What does this mean for how we train future providers? And how do we prepare learners to make evidence informed choices in this space? 
  • Starting to think about a framework for innovation with the above. 


Join us for this thought-provoking session that bridges clinical expertise, technological innovation, and human-centered design - equipping educators to better prepare the next generation of health professionals for the future of care.

Presenter

Dr. Mike Evans is a physician innovator with an unusually diverse career spanning academic medicine and primary care, evidence-based storytelling, media production, and human-centered health tech. A Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Toronto, he spent over 25 years practicing inner-city medicine while exploring how to make best practice easier. He has led national and international health research, wrote a top-selling textbook of family medicine, founded a health media lab and a film company, and served as a doctor at the Sochi Olympics.

Passionate about making complex health topics accessible to the public, he built a “Med School for the Public” at the University of Toronto and then scaled it on YouTube, where his videos have reached over 35 million “students”. He received the first global Chair in Patient Engagement at U of T, and has been recognized for his work in JAMA, The Lancet, and BMJ. His contributions to science communication earned him the McNeil Medal from the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his outstanding ability to promote and communicate science to the public. 

In 2017, he was recruited to Apple, where he worked with cross-disciplinary teams to design better life experiments for over a billion users—leveraging wearables, AI, behavioral science, storytelling, and nudging to help people get where they want to go. In 2025, he stepped away from Apple and is launching a patient education startup and advising. 

Rounds Details

Best Practices in Education Rounds (BPER) are co-hosted by the Centre for Faculty DevelopmentThe Wilson Centre and the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education.

Accreditation Details

Each BPER has been accredited for up to:

  • 1 College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro+ credits
  • 1 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada – Section 1 hours

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