Helen Wozniak

Helen has over 30 years’ experience as a clinician (orthoptist) and an innovative educator. She was the Academic Lead Assessment in the Academy for Medical Education from mid 2017 to March 2024. Helen’s expertise has been built on a career spanning clinical practice in rural and urban settings fuelling a passion for learning from her early mentor, the late Prof Fred Hollows. Her career in higher education has spanned several roles including lecturing and reforming the orthoptics curriculum, leading elearning projects across five health facilities at the University of Sydney before moving to lead academic development at Charles Darwin University. She has worked in three medical schools (University of Sydney, Flinders University and the University of Queensland) inspiring educators to enhance clinical skills teaching, developing clinical supervisors in Northern Australia and most recently leading assessment design for the new Doctor of Medicine program at University of Queensland. She has received multiple teaching and learning awards at University of Sydney (2003, 2004), Flinders University (2016) and the Australian Awards for University Teaching: Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2017). Workplace-based assessment, Educational Design Research (also known as Design-based research), Digital dashboards, Peer learning, Clinical supervision

[2024] Developing coaches to support learners' longitudinal development. Ledger, Alison, Wozniak, Helen, Pather, Nalini and Olupeliyawa, Asela (2024). Ottawa 2024: Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 24-28 February 2024. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Ottawa. [2023] Educational design research: charting new waters to bridge the theory-practice gap in health professions education. Devonshire, Elizabeth, Wozniak, Helen and Hu, Wendy (2023). ANZAHPE 2023: Turning tides: Navigating the Opportunities, Gold Coast, QLD Queensland, 26-29 June 2023. [2023] Co-designing digital dashboards to enhance student engagement in work-integrated learning (WIL). Wozniak, Helen, Gibson, Justine, Noble, Christy, Claydon, Rachel, Bowker, S