Surgeons Perform Better After Wii Use!

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Learning to practice medicine – even surgical techniques – can be aided by some simple (Wii) games designed for fun. That’s a conclusion based on research by Kanav Kahol of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, and Marshall Smith of the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix.

Kahol and Smith conducted studies in which trainee surgeons played a Nintendo Wii video game called Marble Mania, which requires players to develop dexterity in their hand movements to succeed at the game.

Practising your surgical skills on a gaming console! I’ve heard it all now. We always knew the Wii is a revolutionary machine but this story surprised even us! It has been shown that kids who play a lot of video games are actually developing longer, more dexterous fingers and this would seem to tie in with this medical story in that regard. We might even see medical training applications being coded for consoles like the Wii in the future, who knows! I can see it now .. two trainee surgeons battling hard in a surgical face off in the virtual theatre armed with their Wii remotes! What a brave new world we live in.

The Wii game players showed 48 percent more improvement in their surgical techniques than the non-players.

Wow! That’s a huge improvement. A really conclusive result which goes a long way to showing that gaming is not only for fun! It can have some real practical uses as more and more studies are beginning to show. More power to the Wii!

Source: asunews.asu.edu