Staci Becker, RN, MSN

Staci Becker, RN, MSN

Research Instructor, Nurse Educator for Psychiatry Clerkship
Psychiatry Clerkship

    About me

    Teaching Interests & Activities

    • Responsible for providing and enhancing educational experiences of medical students.
    • Serve as advisor to medical students.
    • Train students in clerkship-related clinical skills.
    • Develop, design and administer patient problem simulations in multiple formats (standardized patients, paper simulations, computer simulations).
    • Develop, design and administer performance-based assessments.
    • Score clinical assessments and provide feedback to students on their interview skills.
    • Developed Required Patient Encounter Card (RPE) to ensure all students are exposed to similar psychiatric illness during clerkship.
    • Monitor student progress in meeting RPE requirements.
    • Conduct individual midterm meetings to gauge progress and student needs.

    Gender

    Female

    Education & training

    Undergraduate Degree
    M.S., Nursing, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 1998
    B.S., Nursing, St. John's College, Springfield, 1995

    Publications

    • Contributing Author: Toy EC, Klamen D. Case Files Psychiatry. 5th ed. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.; 2016
    • Contributing Author: Toy EC, Klamen D. Case Files Psychiatry. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.; 2012.
    • Contributing Author: Toy EC, Klamen D. Case Files Psychiatry. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.; 2009.
    • Paper: "Determining, Monitoring and Verifying Patient-Student Involvement (ED-2) In a Psychiatry Clerkship: Preliminary Findings." Academic Psychiatry 2006; 30(5) 397-402.

    Featured In

    • Poster: “Honors in a Psychiatry Clerkship: Comparison in a Changing Curriculum” for the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry held in San Ana Pueblo, New Mexico June 15-17, 2017

    • Poster: "Intra-Rotation Predictors of Successful Performance During the Psychiatry Clerkship Rotation. Association of Academic Psychiatry Conference. October 18, 2013, Charleston, SC.

    • "Nurse Educators as a Tool for Enhancing Medical Educators." Southern Illinois University School of Medicine's 1st Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning, February 2, 2010. Springfield, IL.

    • Bringing a Psychiatry Clerkship into Compliance with ED-2: One School's Endeavor." Association of Academic Psychiatry Conference, September 29, 2005, Chicago, IL.

    Grants

    • Association of Academic Psychiatry (AAP)
    • Faculty/Administrative Grievance Committee 2008-present