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According to a study from this month's edition of Archives of Surgery, doctors who played videogames performed better on their laparoscopic surgical skills exams in which they have to insert instruments through a small opening and navigate them through the body using a television screen.
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According to a study from this month's edition of Archives of Surgery, doctors who played videogames performed better on their laparoscopic surgical skills exams in which they have to insert instruments through a small opening and navigate them through the body using a television screen.
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The ISU study found that video games can be almost as valuable as medical school. "It was shocking to me," said ISU professor and researcher Dr. Douglas Gentile.
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A small US study suggests that surgeons who played video games have better keyhole surgery skills than those that did not. The study was performed by US scientists at Beth Israel Medical Centre in New York and is published in this month's issue of the Archives of Surgery.
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Laparoscopic surgery, also called minimally invasive surgery (MIS), bandaid surgery, or keyhole surgery, is a modern surgical technique in which operations in the abdomen are performed through small incisions (usually 0.5 - 1.5 cm) as compared to larger incisions needed in traditional surgical procedures.
