A prospective study of the effect of video games on robotic surgery skills using the high-fidelity virtual reality RobotiX simulator

Overview of attention for article published in Advances in Medical Education and Practice, August 2019

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With all the unfounded allegations against video gaming, here’s some unexpected evidence to support video game use: video game experience may give a significant advantage to novice robotic surgeons. Keep playing everyone, it may make you better at saving lives, not taking them.

User RAGMWTDATW, in the r/gaming subreddit, 14 Aug 2019