Moderate benefit of escape room game on learning outcome in medicine
Peter Fedorcsak · 2024
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Peter Fedorcsak measures what an escape room adds to medical teaching, and finds the gain real but modest, in this 2024 study. Escape games engage students with puzzles that test clinical and teamwork skills, yet their effect on hard learning outcomes was unproven.
During a fertility-medicine rotation, small groups had traditional patient visits with case discussion. Other groups added a three-hour escape game staged in the clinic, its puzzles drawn from real clinical problems, including scanning a mannequin with ultrasound. A mid-semester knowledge test compared students who had already taken the class with those still waiting. The traditional class alone moved scores negligibly. The game version edged ahead by a small effect size, with wide uncertainty, among 182 students. Satisfaction was high. Fedorcsak concludes a single game session gives a moderate boost at best, unlikely to beat simulation teaching.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Peter Fedorcsak |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |