Articles Tagged ‘Expert’
Articles & Studies | By June 20, 2007 | By Sudip Ghosh, MD | 4 Comments
Wanted: Visiting GI Surgeon, Must Demonstrate Expert Video Gaming Skills
Any doubts that playing video games make better endoscopic surgeons have been dispelled by a series of studies from the mid 1990s. The latest confirmation, published in the Archives of Surgery, comes from a study on video games and laparoscopic surgery, at Beth Israel Medical Center, NY, aptly named “Top Gun.”
Young surgeons who were the best video game players made 47% fewer errors, finished 39% faster and performed 49% better overall, leaving little room for skepticism. A significant correlation was also found between better performance and playing at least 3 hours of video games a week. Read more →
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