The geriatric escape room

Charlie Bailie
ByCharlie Bailie
Published24 May 2022
Three fourth years enter a medical escape room. The door is locked behind them. How do they make it out – and what do they learn in the process?

By creating a real ward environment and giving us proper responsibility over clinical decisions and tasks, our expectations of both the simulation and ourselves rapidly changed.

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Charlie Bailie

Charlie Bailie is a fourth-year graduate medical student at Nottingham who previously completed a degree in clinical science. She is an aspiring surgeon with secondary interests in medical education and tropical disease.

Matthew Mathieson

Matthew Mathieson is a medical student at the University of Nottingham. He has a broad range of interests within the fields of medicine and surgery, with a focus on academia. Having graduated his third year of medical school with a BMedSci degree, he is continuing to study for his BMBS and is looking forward to his future career as a doctor.

The geriatric escape room