A study has shown that trainee surgeons can increase their surgical skills by 50 percent by merely playing on Wii.
Surgeon Mark Smith claimed there is a very high correlation between surgeons hand movements and playing games in an interview with News 8 Austin.
He has since started using the games console in his training.
"One of the problems we've had over the years is we had no method to teach surgeons surgical skills without going into surgery," he said.
"We now have simulators that help them develop those skills. The problem is they are incredibly expensive -- like a flight simulator for a pilot.
"This gives us a much less costly way to train these fine motor skills that the surgeons employ during surgery."
If the idea that our future doctors are learning their trade practising hand movements on Wii Sports, you might be shocked to learn what the current training method is.
"Up until the last ten years, they learned in actual surgery," Smith added. "What's called the apprentice method -- standing beside an expert surgeon, watching and helping to do it."
It's a wonder any of us are still alive. Stay out of hospital kids.
Wouldn't there be a better survival rate for operations in Casualty if they used Wii's instead of Difibrulators , considering from past experience as soon as they get the Defibrulator out they might as well be reading them the last rights?
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