It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt: using a scavenger hunt game to teach human factors to junior doctors.

Abstract

Human factors are extremely important in healthcare. It is now a requirement that all junior doctors demonstrate understanding of human factors in medical error.1 Feedback from previous teaching to foundation doctors on human factors in South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust included comments such as ‘just not relevant to us at this level of our training’. A session entitled ‘Introduction to human factors’ aimed to meet the outcome as expected in junior doctors’ Foundation Programme curriculum: ‘Describes the role of human factors in medical errors and takes steps to minimise these’. The foundation doctors were divided into teams. …