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Who is blocking access to PubMed? Educational ‘Escape Room’ for medical residents
Author(s) -
ÁlvarezDíaz Noelia,
GrifolClar Eulàlia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
health information and libraries journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1471-1842
pISSN - 1471-1834
DOI - 10.1111/hir.12360
Subject(s) - teamwork , creativity , blocking (statistics) , computer science , library instruction , critical thinking , medical education , psychology , mathematics education , world wide web , medicine , information literacy , computer network , political science , law , social psychology
Teaching students how to conduct bibliographic searches in health sciences’ databases is essential training. One of the challenges librarians face is how to motivate students during classroom learning. In this article, two hospital libraries, in Spain, used Escape rooms as a method of bringing creativity, teamwork, communication and critical thinking into bibliographic search instruction. Escape rooms are a series of puzzles that must be solved to exit the game. This article explores the methods used for integrating escape rooms into training programmes and evaluates the results. Escape Rooms are a useful tool that can be integrated into residents’ training to support their instruction on bibliographic searches. This kind of learning stablishes competences like logical thinking and deductive approaching. These aspects aid participants to make their own decision and to develop social and intellectual skills.