Playing video games may make for sharper surgeons, a new
study shows.
The study shows that surgeons who have a history of
playing video games for more than three hours per week may be faster and more
accurate in certain video-assisted surgery training tests than surgeons who
have never played video games.
"These were surprising results," says
Gentile and colleagues conducted the study, which
appears in the Archives of Surgery.
The researchers
asked the surgeons to play one of three video games for 25 minutes before the
workshop ended.
Those games were Super Monkey Ball 2, in which
players are timed while piloting a ball through a constantly changing course; Star
Warts Racer Revenge, in which players race against others through a winding
canyon; and Silent Scope, in which players shoot as many targets as
possible in 2.5 minutes.
The top scorers in each of those games made 47% fewer
errors, performed 39% faster, and scored 41% better overall in their
laparoscopy tests, the study shows.
Source:
Web MD
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