Delivering a Novel Medical Education "Escape Room" at a National Scientific Conference: First Live, Then Pivoting to Remote Learning Because of COVID-19.
Viren Kaul, Amy Morris, June M Chae, James A Town, William F Kelly
Author Information
Viren Kaul: Crouse Health/SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Amy Morris: University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
June M Chae: Mayo Clinic Health Systems, Rochester, MN.
James A Town: University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
William F Kelly: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Electronic address: William.kelly@usuhs.edu.
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.
