Escape from the usual: Development and implementation of an ‘escape room’ activity to assess team dynamics

Gordon, Sarah K.; Trovinger, Sara; DeLellis, Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.cptl.2019.04.013

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“… 16 In a large pharmacy management course, 91% of participants indicated improved engagement in problem-based thinking in an ER format as opposed to a traditional classroom. 6 Other studies have demonstrated increases in participants’ desire to work in a team, 25 improved critical thinking and clinical communication skills, 22 and improved interprofessional teamwork. 22 Importantly, an ER need not have a medical theme to develop teamwork skills and attitudes in medical participants.…”

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Delivering a Novel Medical Education “Escape Room” at a National Scientific Conference: First Live, Then Pivoting to Remote Learning Because of COVID-19

Kaul

Morris

Chae

et al. 2021

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Escape Rooms are gaining prominence as education modalities; the use of principles of game design have been shown to augment knowledge acquisition in a fun, team-based learning experience ("edutainment"). In this report, we outline some of the medical literature and then provide our step-by-step approach and lessons learned when building what was, to our knowledge, the first continuing medical education Escape Room at a national scientific meeting.We then comment on how this innovative educational offering was reimagined the following year for remote (virtual) learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Delivering a Novel Medical Education “Escape Room” at a National Scientific Conference: First Live, Then Pivoting to Remote Learning Because of COVID-19

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Morris

Chae

et al. 2021

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“…These differences between areas may reflect the focus on the development and use of serious games in certain professional educational programmes, especially within pharmacy, as reported by Caldas, Eukel, Matulewicz, Fernández, and Donohoe (2019). In addition, the professions often combine theoretical knowledge and practical skills, and it is central to be able to work as a team and under pressure in these professions (Gómez-Urquiza et al, 2019;Gordon, Trovinger, & DeLillis, 2019).…”

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A review on use of escape rooms in education – touching the void

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This review article focuses on use of an escape room as a didactic tool in teaching and learning, as identified in empirical studies that have examined the use of escape rooms in educational contexts. The review studied the methods used to study escape rooms, what the focus of attention was, what the reported use was, and implications this has for the use of escape rooms for teaching and learning. Our analysis showed that most studies are concerned with the implementation and use of an escape room in relation to four fields of attention; scenario, curriculum, 21st-century skills, and motivation. Overall, the reviewed articles indicate that more studies are needed on the use of escape rooms for educational purposes. It seems that research on this topic has reached a new phase, and there is a need for structured research and transparency in the research design and methods for data collection and analysis. We see opportunities for the use of escape rooms as a didactic tool in primary and secondary education, and in teacher education.

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“…[7][8][9] In addition, participants perceive educational escape rooms to positively impact game player engagement, critical thinking, application of learned concepts, and teamwork. 8,[10][11][12] However, almost all pharmacy escape room literature is directed at educating student pharmacists. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] The purpose of this study was to design a pharmacist preceptor development escape room game and to assess changes in knowledge and perception following participation in the game.…”

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Designing an Escape Room to Increase Pharmacy Preceptor Knowledge of the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process

Richter

Frenzel

2021

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

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Objective. To design and assess the use of an escape room for pharmacy preceptor development.Methods. An escape room was created for preceptors focused on the Pharmacists' Patient Care Process (PPCP), preceptor resources and the School of Pharmacy's mission and vision. Teams were to solve digital and practical puzzles to escape a pharmacy. The fastest team to correctly solve all the puzzles was considered to have escaped the pharmacy. Escape room puzzles included digital locks, cipher wheels, a rebus puzzle, riddle, hidden object, and other puzzles. Preceptor's knowledge and perceptions of the game were evaluated in a pre-and post-activity test and survey. Results. Fifteen preceptors with a variety of practice sites and precepting experiences participated in a matched pre-and post-activity survey. Preceptor knowledge of the order of the PPCP improved nine (60%) answered correctly before vs 13 (87%) after, however preceptors were less likely to correctly answer the type of approach the PPCP uses after completion of the escape room activity 14 (93%) vs 10 (67%). Perceptions of the game were positive including that all preceptors agreed or strongly agreed that they would recommend this activity to another preceptor. Conclusion.A preceptor development escape room was viewed positively by preceptors. Future research should focus on digital-only escape rooms for preceptors to increase participation and availability.

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Escape from the usual: Development and implementation of an ‘escape room’ activity to assess team dynamics

Cited by 41 publications

References 13 publications

Delivering a Novel Medical Education “Escape Room” at a National Scientific Conference: First Live, Then Pivoting to Remote Learning Because of COVID-19

Delivering a Novel Medical Education “Escape Room” at a National Scientific Conference: First Live, Then Pivoting to Remote Learning Because of COVID-19

A review on use of escape rooms in education – touching the void

Designing an Escape Room to Increase Pharmacy Preceptor Knowledge of the Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process

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