Twelve tips for creating an escape room activity for medical education

Communication, teamwork, and resilience all require active practice by healthcare teams. Games such as escape rooms can add variety, interactivity, and value to teaching sessions. Escape room activities typically include a variety of sequential puzzles that lead participants to break free of a room, or can be adapted into an ‘escape box’ challenge where participants work to successfully unlock a box. Escape room or escape box exercises can help healthcare teams develop and enhance team skills, as well as reinforce medical knowledge. We developed an escape box session to teach and reinforce organizational Safety II principles and the resilience potentials: monitor, respond, learn, and anticipate. We report 12 tips to effectively organize and develop an escape room or escape box activity for multidisciplinary healthcare teams.

医疗团队的沟通、团队协作与韧性塑造，均需通过主动实践来完成。密室逃脱（escape room）等游戏可为教学环节增添多样性、互动性与实践价值。密室逃脱活动通常包含一系列递进式谜题，引导参与者成功逃出房间；也可调整为‘逃脱箱（escape box）’挑战，即参与者需协同解锁箱体。密室逃脱或逃脱箱训练活动，可帮助医疗团队培养并提升团队技能，同时巩固医学知识。我们开发了一套逃脱箱培训课程，用于讲授并强化组织安全-II（Safety II）原则，以及四大韧性潜力维度：监测、响应、学习与预判。本文分享12条实操技巧，用于为多学科医疗团队高效策划并开展密室逃脱或逃脱箱活动。