ArticleJournal of medical education and curricular development
ESCAPE the Boring Lecture: Tips and Tricks on Building Puzzles for Medical Education Escape Rooms.
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- Evaluation of 6-Month Knowledge Retention and Satisfaction After Pedagogical Escape Games in Dentistry.Journal of dental education · 2026Article
- Game-Based Medical Education: Learning Effects of an Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Escape Room.Medical science educator · 2026Article
- Escape Intern Orientation! - A Capstone and Team Building Activity for New EM Interns.Journal of education & teaching in emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Can you escape rehab? Theoretical and design foundations of an online escape room for speech-language pathology students.The South African journal of physiotherapy · 2026Article
- The Eclampsia Escape Room: An Innovative Educational Experience for the OB/GYN Clerkship.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2026Article
- Game-based learning in undergraduate medical education: evaluation of an interdisciplinary escape room.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Gamification of Critical Care Medical Education: ICUlympics.ATS scholar · 2025Article
- Unlocking learning: evaluating case-based learning versus escape rooms for first-year dental students: a quasi-experimental study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
- How to Harness Education Fellows to Optimise Clinical Placement Capacity.The clinical teacher · 2025Article
- Out-BREAK!: An IDWeek 2023 Escape Room to Break Out of the Educational Mold.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of "Escape Room" Educational Technology in Nurses' Education: A Systematic Review.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Escape rooms in medical education are a novel, game-based learning approach for teaching medical topics. In these escape rooms, learners complete a sequential series of medical-themed puzzles leading them to "escape" a specific story. Designing puzzles can be anxiety-provoking and may be the gatekeeper for educators in medicine to create their own escape rooms. Though there have been publications on the importance and methods of building a healthcare-themed-escape room, there is a gap in the literature on designing puzzles to teach specific learning objectives successfully. In this Scholarly Perspective, the authors share puzzle ideas and support tools and use Bloom's taxonomy as the framework to teach educators how to design challenging and engaging escape room puzzles.
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