Allison
Augustus-Wallace,
PhD, MS, MNS, DEIC
Associate Professor-Research, Dept. of Medicine & Office of Diversity and Community Engagement Direc
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Dr. Allison C. Augustus–Wallace serves the LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans (LSUHSC-NO), School of Medicine (SOM), Department of Medicine, and Dean’s Office of Diversity and Community Engagement (ODCE) as an Associate Professor-Research & Director of Undergraduate Academic Pathway Programs for Diversity. Through leadership responsibilities, she works to promote greater educational access, to increase the presence of historically excluded and marginalized groups of people in medicine and biomedical research, to promote health equity and improved health outcomes of marginalized people. She has been engaged with IPE for the last six years, and currently serves as one of its Faculty Graders.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Seminar Description: With rapid changing healthcare and the increase in need of collaborative practice, education needs to adapt to meet these new changes. While Self Directed learning is not a new model or concept, it has been shown to be very effective form of education. “Cultivating students’ self-direction in learning is an imperative result of education.” ( Du Toit-Brits 2015). This type of learning places students in an active role of their education and supports them in lifelong learning. Student-centric, self-directed learning creates a deeper level of learning by increasing the…