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Rhi Carter, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, University of Winchester

Escape rooms give healthcare students a safe place to get things wrong

Working through problems together can help healthcare students practise the reasoning and decision-making they will later need with real patients. PeopleImages/Shutterstock

The buzzer goes off. Three occupational therapy students are convinced they have worked out what should happen to their patient next. They are wrong.

Nobody is harmed, and no real patient is waiting. The escape room gives students a safe place to practise something healthcare professionals do every day: using their knowledge to make decisions when information is incomplete, situations change and the answer is not obvious. Getting it wrong and trying again is part of the learning.

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