According to a recent study, surgeons perform better after playing Nintendo’s wii console. The authors of the study are now planning to develop surgery training software for the wii.
The two authors are surgeons at Banner Good Samaritan medical center in phoenix AZ. The study showed that playing an hour of Nintendo wii’s motion controlled games improved surgical residents scores on the virtual surgery training tool by 48%.
The Catch ? Not any game will do. Games that call on you to make precise and impossible movements of the wrist. Games like Marble Mania for example.
This got me thinking about big brain academy and brain age which are both hits for Nintendo. Clearly exercising of the mind and wrist equals out to better performance regardless of how many statistics are thrown around. In a field where errors can be fatal, a surgeon at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, found that surgeons who played games like super montey Ball (similar to Marble Mania’s gameplay), for 3 hours a week had 37% fewer errors.
When the software these two surgeons are developing along with similar games come into play on the wii its hoped it will mimic one laptop per child’s success. Bringing Basic and advanced education to the developing world through a low cost platform given the wii’s $250 and 50-100 dollars for software if that, compared to virtual training machines running in the thousands.
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