A very interesting trial was published in the current issue of “Archives of Surgery“. The clear conclusion is: “Video game skill correlates with laparoscopic surgical skills. Training curricula that include video games may help thin the technical interface between surgeons and screen-mediated applications, such as laparoscopic surgery. Video games may be a practical teaching tool to help train surgeons.”
In discussions with colleagues we compared many times the endoscopy (gastroscopy and colonoscopy) with a video game. The students found this talks very funny. Now we have the “proof”! :)
So, dear surgeons: take a good computer machine and play! Play for the sake of your patients! :)
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