A Puzzling Night on Call: An Otolaryngology Escape Room Experience (3rd Annual) - Sponsored by SIMEC

Sunday, October 12, 2025

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Location: Simulation Center 1

Disclosure(s):

Scott E. Mann, MD:

faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Ankona Ghosh, MD:

faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Game-based learning has gained a lot of attention recently as a better way to engage learners and create active learning environments. One particular area of game-based learning has been getting established in nursing education and making its way into medical education, escape rooms. Escape rooms are a series of puzzles or skill-based tasks that can be added together to create a real or virtual environment to create, consolidate, and demonstrate knowledge and skills. This educational experience will be an interactive application of game-based learning design. Escape rooms can offer opportunities for team building and experiential learning in a fun and challenging way. This educational offering will utilize logic-based puzzles and skill-based simulation tasks to challenge teams to compete for scores and time to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. This challenges your mind and ignites your competitive spirit all the service of entertainment while staying relevant to your clinical acumen. Admission is on a rolling basis throughout the session. Come, have fun, and let's play!

Learning Objectives:

Synthesize their relevant clinical knowledge in otolaryngology to solve puzzles and answer trivia questions.
Apply their relevant otolaryngology psychomotor skills in managing simulated tasks.
Demonstrate teamwork and collaborative non-technical skills to effectively manage a sequence of puzzles, questions, and clinical scenarios.

Lead Instructor(s)

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Eric A. Gantwerker, MD, MMSc(MedEd), FACS

Associate Professor
Northwell Health
New Hyde Park, NY, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.
Katherine R. Kavanagh, MD

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Connecticut Children's/University of Connecticut School of Medicine
West Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.

Instructor(s)

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Scott E. Mann, MD

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
University of Colorado
Denver, CO, United States

Disclosure(s):
faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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Ankona Ghosh, MD

Assistant Professor
Cedars Saini Hospital
Los Angeles , CA, United States

Disclosure(s):
faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Michael T. Yim, MD

Associate Professor
Louisiana State University - Shreveport
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.
Elliot Regenbogen, MD

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, NY, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.
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Lyndy J. Wilcox, MD, MMHC

Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr
Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.
Amy S. Whigham, MD, MS-HPEd

Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.