The latest news.com story about how video games are good for surgeons (and their patients by extension).
Doctors were measured on their performance of the “cobra rope” drill, a standard laparoscopic training exercise used to teach how to sew up an internal wound.
Researchers found that surgeons who played video games immediately before the drill completed it an average of 11 seconds faster than those who did not. Any errors committed during the training lengthened the time it took to complete the task–indicating that faster finishers made fewer mistakes.
The article mentions Super Monkey Ball, but is not clear whether that was the game used in the test.
Super Monkey Ball is becoming something of a favorite for clinical studies though.
