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This reminds me of the studies done on how experience in video games and virtual training translates to practice in surgery.

The basic finding was that just having played a lot of video games helped immensely because it means practice in careful hand-eye coordination. Also, real surgery is obviously different from virtual surgery, but there is strong skill transfer.[1]

full disclosure: I used to work for Surgical Science, primarily on the development of LapSim, their simulator for laparoscopic surgery.

[1]: https://surgicalscience.com/systems/lapsim/lapsim-validation...




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