Escape rooms in pharmacy education: More than just a game.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn
; 16(12): 102201, 2024 Sep 17.
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ABSTRACT
An educational escape room is a form of game-based learning that has been shown to improve students' learning experience. A cardiovascular escape room was designed to promote the development of transversal skills and help students retain learned content knowledge in an integrated pharmacology and therapeutic unit in a Pharmacy course. OBJECTIVE:
This study aims to design, pilot, and evaluate the students' self-perceived transversal skills, learning experience and knowledge acquisition from a cardiovascular educational escape room.METHODS:
The model pharmacy at Curtin University was used as the room that students were challenged to escape. Students were required to acquire a four-digit safe code, with each digit derived from four separate briefcases containing different puzzles and clues. This code enabled students to unlock a lifesaving medication to successfully escape the room and rescue a fictional patient who had collapsed outside of the pharmacy. Each session was followed by a debrief to reflect on the learning experience.RESULTS:
Fifty-four students participated in the study. Eight out of twelve groups successfully escaped the room. There was negligible difference in the score of the pre- and post-knowledge assessments. All students strongly agreed/agreed that the escape room was an effective way to review the cardiovascular content covered in the lecture and tutorial and that the activity should be continued for future students.CONCLUSION:
Students perceived the education escape room as a valuable learning exercise to help them retain content knowledge and develop transversal skills in the learning of integrated pharmacology and therapeutic within a Pharmacy course.
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Curr Pharm Teach Learn
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2024
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Estados Unidos