Anna Vnuk
- anna.vnuk@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2173-4962- Academic Coordinator, Cairns
- Cairns Clinical School
Projects
1
Publications
12
Awards
7
Contact Details
Academic Coordinator Year 4
Biography
Associate Professor Anna Vnuk is a medical education specialist, with a background in General Practice.
Anna graduated with MBBS from Adelaide University and worked in rural and urban general practice, obtaining a DRANZCOG and FRACGP before starting her teaching career at Flinders University. She taught in all levels of the postgraduate medical course, basing her teaching innovation from her post graduate students in a Grad Cert Tertiary Education, Masters of Clinical Education and Doctor of Education.
She commenced with James Cook Univeristy in October 2020 as Academic Coordinator of Year 4 in Cairns and has been Acting Head of the Cairns Clinical School (2023-2024).
Her research has focussed on qualitative research and, more specifically, the student experience of learning, and has researched these areas using the following frameworks: Threshold Concepts, Activity Theory, Theory of Planned Behaviour and Self Determination Theory.
Research
Projects
Activities
Committees
Clinical Studies
2022 - 2024
College of Medicine and Dentistry Cabinet
2023 - 2024
ANZAHPE Board
2020 - 2024
Equity Committee - contact officer
2023 - 2024
Education
MBBS, University of Adelaide
1981 - 1986
Docotr of Education, Flinders University
2010 - 2013
Associations
Awards
Employment
Output
Factors positively influencing GP obstetricians to remain in rural and remote obstetric practice
2025
Exell, Beth; Vnuk, Anna (2025) 'Factors positively influencing GP obstetricians to remain in rural and remote obstetric practice'. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 33 (4). [DOI]
Turtle, Elizabeth; Vnuk, Anna; Isaac, Vivian (2021) 'Distribution of male and female procedural and surgical
specialists in Australia'. Australian Health Review, 45 (2):235-240. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Male genital examination in the medical curricula: an exploration of medical students’ experience
2019
Jayasuria, Andrew; Wearn, Andy; Vnuk, Anna; Bhoopatkar, Harsh (2019) 'Male genital examination in the medical curricula: an exploration of medical students’ experience'. New Zealand Medical Student Journal, 1 (29):11-14.
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Munro, Virginia; Morello, Andrea; Oster, Candice; Redmond, Christine; Vnuk, Anna; Lennon, Sheila; Lawn, Sharon (2018) 'E-learning for self-management support: Introducing blended learning for graduate students - A cohort study 13 Education 1303 Specialist Studies in Education 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1117 Public Health and Health Services'. BMC Medical Education, 18 . [DOI]
Medical students' experience of performing female pelvic examinations: Opportunities and barriers
2017
Bhoopatkar, Harsh; Wearn, Andy; Vnuk, Anna (2017) 'Medical students' experience of performing female pelvic examinations: Opportunities and barriers'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 57 (5):514-519. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Vnuk, Anna K.; Wearn, Andy; Rees, Charlotte E. (2017) 'The influence of students' gender on equity in Peer Physical Examination: a qualitative study'. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 22 (3):653-665. [DOI]
Journal Publication
ResearchOnline@JCU
Ash, Julie Katherine; Anakin, Megan; Canny, Ben; Denniston, Charlotte; Molloy, Elizabeth; Rogers, Gary; Romeo, Jill; Rudland, Joy; Schoo, Adrian; Tai, Joanna; Vnuk, Anna (2023) 'The “ANZAHPE Way”: Nurturing health professionals, educators, learners and researchers in the next 50 years' Focus on Health Professional Education, 24 (2) :176-184. [DOI]
Bhoopatkar, Harsh; Wearn, Andy; Vnuk, Anna (2019) 'Audit and exploration of graduating medical students' opportunities to perform digital rectal examinations as part of their learning' ANZ Journal of Surgery, 89 (5) :617-618. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Seymour-Walsh, Amy; Worley, Paul; Vnuk, Anna; Grantham, Hugh (2016) 'Is our assessment of resuscitation skills robust? Examining the validation process' Resuscitation, 106 (Supplement 1) :e60-e60. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Seymour-Walsh, Amy; Worley, Paul; Vnuk, Anna; Grantham, Hugh (2016) 'Is the common approach to teaching ALS skills cost-effective?' Resuscitation, 106 (Supplement 1) :e46-e46. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Seymour-Walsh, Amy; Worley, Paul; Vnuk, Anna; Grantham, Hugh (2016) 'The art of education: Why do we teach skills the way we do?' Resuscitation, 106 (Supplement 1) :e13-e13. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU
Seymour-Walsh, Amy; Worley, Paul; Vnuk, Anna; Grantham, Hugh (2015) 'Is patient morbidity and mortality improved with a skill teaching strategy embedded in learning theory?' Resuscitation, 96 (Supplement 1) :85-85. [DOI]
Journal Contribution
ResearchOnline@JCU