Escape Room with a Twist: Designing an Interprofessional, Active Learning Experience with a Focus on Specific Healthcare Professions.

Abstract

Engagement of all students in an interprofessional learning activity is crucial to the overall success of the event. Due to limited diversity of healthcare disciplines, academic programs on regional medical campuses face particular challenges to create events where all students can have an active role in learning experiences. To meet the interprofessional education needs of all healthcare disciplines on a regional medical campus, a learning event was designed to purposefully involve each group of students to solve an escape room/scavenger hunt experience. The Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey (ICCAS) was utilized to assess the learning experience. All ICCAS metrics increased pre- to post-evaluation, suggesting the learners found the experience to be valuable. This paper describes the process for creation and implementation of an active learning experience with targeted healthcare disciplines for inclusion and engagement of all students.