The Mystery Dinner RCA: Using Gamification and Simulation to Teach Root Cause Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Root cause analysis (RCA) is a widely utilized tool for investigating systems issues that lead to patient safety events and near misses, yet only 38% of learners participate in an interdisciplinary patient safety investigation during training. Common barriers to RCA education and participation include faculty time and materials, trainee time constraints, and learner engagement.

Methods

We developed a simulated RCA workshop to be taught to a mix of medical and surgical specialties from over 11 GME programs and to third-year medical students. The workshop was a single 90-minute session formatted as a gamified mystery dinner including characters and sequentially revealed clues to promote engagement. Participant satisfaction and subjective knowledge, skills, and att

SUBMITTER: Smeraglio A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8215086 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature