Gaming is helping train the next generation of doctors:
Take Touch Surgery, an iPhone app. The Guardian described it as a training exercise that could help improve surgeons’ decision making and technical skills. The “mobile surgical simulator” allows users to learn the steps of 12 different operations with intense 3D animation, from cleft palate repair to emergency leg fasciotomies. Touch Surgery’s suite of games–if you’d like to call them that–is designed to compartamentalize each operation into a series of steps and check points, similar to a “level-save” feature in a standard video game, while tracking users’ progress and error-making through each decision point. Perhaps most critically, the simulations help users recognize risks–nerves and arteries to avoid, for example.
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