Surgeons who warm up playing video games make fewer mistakes
A new study from Beth Israel Medical Center shows that surgeons who warm up by playing video games perform better at simulated surgery.
Surgeons who played games for 20 minutes immediately prior to performing surgical drills were faster and made fewer errors. The research involved 303 surgeons participating in a medical training course that included video games and was focused on laparoscopic surgical procedures — which use a tiny video camera and long, slender instruments inserted through small incisions.
The results supported findings from a smaller study in 2003, which showed that doctors who grew up playing video games tended to be more efficient and less error-prone in laparoscopic training drills.