Video gaming doctors make less errors

Super Monkey Ball 2We all already knew gaming improved our eye-hand coordination and response time, and everyone loves monkeys, but CNN was handed the official study recently. Lead investigator Dr. James Rosser had 303 medical professionals engaging in 20 minute sessions of Sega’s Super Monkey Ball before a series of surgical drills based on laparoscopic surgical procedures that feature small video camera inserted through tiny incisions.

Medical mistakes are estimated to cause more than 100,000 accidental deaths in the USA annually. Rosser’s experimental surgeons completed their drills 11 seconds faster than others, not to mention any mistakes made were corrected faster.

Rosser developed the Top Gun Laparoscopic Surgery Skill and Suturing Program used in the study to give surgeons training tools akin to flight simulators used by pilots.