Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Video Games Will Save Your Life.

It just keeps getting better and better. Check this article I found on CBC News.


"Surgeons who have played a lot of video games appear to perform better at laparoscopic or keyhole surgery.
Researchers in New York tested the skills of a group of 12 surgeons and 21 surgical residents during a simulated surgery drills course called Top Gun in 2003. The surgeons also played three video games for 25 minutes while the team assessed their gaming skills. "Training curricula that include video games may help thin the technical interface between surgeons and screen-mediatedapplications, such as laparoscopic surgery," the study's authors concluded.
"Video games may be a practical teaching tool to help train surgeons."
In the February issue of Archives of Surgery, Dr. James Rosser of the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York said doctors who played at least three hours of video games per week at the height of their gaming scored higher than surgeons who never handled a game controller.
In the simulated drills, experienced gamers made 37 per cent fewer errors, were 27 per cent faster and scored 42 per cent better overall."

1 Comments:

Blogger B.S.D. said...

And to complement that article, check this one out; I just wrote it up yesterday-

http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/848.html

It's a bad week for the anti-game activists. ;)

11:10 PM  

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