The director of the Advanced Medical Technologies Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York is a huge fan of video games. The surgeon goes as far as to say that you have to "be be a Nintendo surgeon." He has been teaching his Top Gun training, which uses Super Monkey Ball and other real world eye-hand coordination games, for more than a decade. Using games to train surgeons is all well and good, but I don t want to find any sutures spelling out high scores and names in my belly: DRLUV 12:18

Doctors Use Video Games to Hone Skills [Reuters]

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