This week, we argued that videogames should be taught in schools, because they make you better at shooting people?s faces off?multitasking, thinking about abstract shapes and making rapid decisions. A new study suggests gaming might have a home in medical school too.
Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston pit resident medical students against video-game playing 10th graders in a battle to see who could perform virtual, robotic surgery simulation; doing things like suturing wounds. The results?
The gamers did just as well ? and in some cases better ? at the simulated surgery as the medical residents. Researchers suggest that could be because the unpredictability of gameplay in sports games and shooters is similar to surgery ? and the quick-thinking that gaming fosters is a boon. And while it means all those hours on the PlayStation aren?t a waste of time, it doesn?t mean you should give up medical school to play games.
?I?m not encouraging [teenagers] to spend countless hours in front of the computer games,? says lead researcher Sam Kilic,"because our job is not to create the best surgeon ever or the best soldier ever ? in this age group. They have to have the fundamental human being skills in their developing age.?
I already know that I?d be a great surgeon; I?ve poured countless hours in to the very realistic surgery simulator Trauma Centre on the Nintendo DS ? and that?s all the training anybody really needs.
Source: http://www.lazygamer.net/xbox-360/gamers-are-good-at-virtual-surgery/
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