PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jonathan Guckian
AU  - Leanne Eveson
AU  - Hannah May
TI  - The great escape? The rise of the escape room in medical education
AID  - 10.7861/fhj.2020-0032
DP  - 2020 Jun 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - 112--115
VI  - 7
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/2/112.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/2/112.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2020 Jun 01; 7
AB  - Medical education has changed focus to a more learner-centred model, placing learners at the centre of innovations in training. The escape room is one such innovative learner-focused activity, in which a team of players cooperatively discover clues, solve puzzles and complete tasks in order to progress through the challenge to achieve a specific goal. Escape rooms can be used in medical education as a tool for team building, an entertaining way of delivering technical and non-technical skills, to read and acquire or refresh knowledge, as well as for educational research. Despite appearing to be a superficial form of entertainment, escape rooms can be grounded in sound educational theory and, when used effectively, act as a low-cost, high-impact resource for a variety of learners. While escape rooms may well be an example of yet another educational ‘fad’ demonstrating the rising influence of ‘Millennial MedEd’, it signals a promising shift to more learner-centred, team-based methods which are essential to the practice of safe modern healthcare during the current COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.