Gaming Skills Directly Linked to Surgical Skills

[wraggster]

via /.

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'

[Broadus]

So the doctor with the highest score in Pac-Man would be the better doctor when performing surgery?

[woods05]

yeah, i heard about this on the radio.

[shorty_carnage]

i heard about this. looks like im destined to be a seurgen watch out world

[LAW666]

lmao! pac man tournaments in the hospital canteen to decide which surgeon gets to do the op!