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Gaming Skills Directly Linked to Surgical Skills

Posted by Zonk on from the all-that-trauma-center-paid-off dept.

Orinthe writes "According to Reuters, a new study involving 33 surgeons at a New York hospital shows 'a strong correlation between video game skills and a surgeon's capabilities'. A statement by the senior author of the study even suggests the use of video games as a training tool for surgeons. Another of the study's authors cautions parents to curb excessive gaming, however: 'spending that much time playing video games is not going to help their child's chances of getting into medical school'."

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  1. A quick question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    From the article:

    Out of 33 surgeons from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York that participated in the study, the nine doctors who had at some point played video games at least three hours per week made 37 percent fewer errors, performed 27 percent faster, and scored 42 percent better in the test of surgical skills than the 15 surgeons who had never played video games before.


    Time for some basic math: 9 + 15 = 24. The study had 33 participants. Where are the other 9 doctors? Why aren't they mentionned? Were their results not compatible with the findings of the study?

    Maybe someone has a link to the actual findings instead of a Reutres Life article.