Are surgeons using video games for training?
Are surgeons using video games for training? Dr. James Rosser Jr. takes an innovative approach to daily surgical training. At Beth Israel hospital in New York, he keeps an Xbox and a PlayStation 2 for his personal use. But the video game systems aren’t for getting in a little fun during downtime — or at least not primarily. He uses them to prep for laparoscopic surgery. Rosser has always been an avid gamer, and he’s the driving force behind a 2002 study that goes a long way toward proving what he’s always believed: There’s a significant correlation between video-game skill and surgical skill. He first noticed the two were connected in medical school, when he realized that his fellow students who didn’t play video games at all had more trouble with fine surgical skills than he did. And Rosser has been
