The Escape Room Challenge: An Interprofessional Team-building Activity

Criteria for Registering the IPE Experience

• Involvement of two or more professions.
• Opportunities to learn about, from, and with one another.
• Significant interactivity between participants.
• Teaching and/or learning about interprofessional practice and education is intentionally integrated into the activity. Interprofessional practice and education constructs are targeted with IPE learning objectives are also discussed, trained, reviewed, and/or assessed as part of the learning activity.

Type of IPE Experience

• Team-building event

IPEC Core Competencies Targeted by this IPE Experience

• Communication: Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.
• Teams and Teamwork: Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one's own role in a variety of team settings.

Quintuple Aim Strategic Goals Discussed in this IPE Experience

• Improving patient and/or population health outcomes

Level of IPE Integration

• Immersion Level: Consists of development learning activities that provide learners with the opportunity to learn about, with, and from other professional learners in an active learning situation where they are applying learning during the activity. The desired outcome for activities offered at the immersion level is that learners will develop critical thinking skills as part of an interprofessional view that incorporates multiple perspectives, and acknowledges and encourages diversity in providing quality health and human services.

Attendance or Participation in the IPE Experience

• Certificate credit
• Voluntary basis

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 01. Annually
• The Escape Room will be an annual IPE activity in the summer semester.

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 01. up to 1 hour
• The escape room is approximately 60 min.

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Lubbock
• Distance Education

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 02. 51 to 100
• ~100 students per semester

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

• Biomedical Sciences, MS
• Biomedical Sciences, PhD
• Biotechnology, MS
• Graduate Medical Sciences, MS
• Pharmaceutical Sciences, MS
• Pharmaceutical Sciences, PhD

School of Health Professions Audiences

• Addiction Counseling, MS
• Athletic Training, MAT
• Audiology, AuD
• Medical Laboratory Science (Certificate)
• Medical Laboratory Science (Second Degree), BS
• Medical Laboratory Science, BS
• Clinical Mental Health Counseling, MS
• Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, MS
• Healthcare Administration, MS
• Healthcare Management, BS
• Molecular Pathology, MS
• Physical Therapy, DPT
• Rehabilitation Science, ScD
• Physician Assistant Studies, MPAS
• Rehabilitation Science, PhD
• Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (Second Degree), BS
• Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, BS
• Speech-Language Pathology, MS
• Occupational Therapy, OTD
• Occupational Therapy (Post-Professional), OTD-P

School of Medicine Audiences

• MS 1
• MS 2
• MS 3
• MS 4
• Residents

School of Nursing Audiences

• Doctor of Nursing Practice
• Graduate MSN
• Post-Master’s/Advanced Practice
• RN to BSN
• Second Degree BSN
• Traditional BSN
• Veteran BSN

School of Pharmacy Audiences

• P1
• P2
• P3
• P4
• SOP Residents

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

• Public Health, MPH Traditional
• Public Health, MPH Online

Other

Values and Ethics

• VE07. Practice trust, empathy, respect, and compassion with persons, caregivers, health professionals, and populations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• RR04. Differentiate each team member’s role, scope of practice, and responsibility in promoting health outcomes.

Communication

• C02. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
• C04. Promote common understanding of shared goals.
• C05. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.