Video Gaming Improves Robotic Surgery Simulator Success

"A questionnaire was administered to all participants, asking about their demographic information, surgical experience, hobbies, and previous video game playing experiences.~After the questionnaire, the participants were asked to play the Temple Run (Imangi Studios, NC, USA) and Piano Tiles 2™ mobile games for one month. At the end of the period, with the da Vinci® Skills Simulator™ for one hour, all participants performed four different robotic surgery simulator tasks (Camera Targeting 1, Energy Switching 1, Ring \& Rail 2, Vertical Defect Suturing) that require the ability to apply basic robotic surgery rules and measure surgical skills."