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Nintendo Wii 'should be used to train surgeons' ~ scientific journal PLOS One


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Nintendo Wii 'should be used to train surgeons'

 

Playing video games on the Nintendo Wii can help surgeons improve hand-eye coordination and should be used to enhance their training, according to a new study.

 

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A group of postgraduate surgeons at the University of Rome were put on a month-long programme of gaming using the Nintendo’s Wii console.

 

Researchers then compared their performance with doctors who had not spent an hour a day playing games.

 

Those that had been playing with the Wii scored significantly higher as a group in simulated tasks designed to test the skills needed for laparascopy, or keyhole surgery.

 

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The authors of the report, writing in the scientific journal PLOS One, said that using the Wii could become a “helpful, inexpensive and entertaining part of the training of young laparoscopists in addition to a standard surgical education based on simulators and the operating room.”

 

The study follows on from others that have used video games in an attempt to hone surgeons’ skills.

 

~ Telegraph

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