Background: Surgical residents underutilize opportunities for traditional laparoscopic
simulation training. Serious gaming may increase residents' motivation to practice …

Objective Serious games are new in the field of laparoscopic surgical training. We evaluate
the residents׳ opinion of a new laparoscopic simulator for the Nintendo Wii-U platform …

Background: Serious games are being used to train specific technical skills in medicine, and
most research has been done for surgical skills. It is not known if these games improve …

Background: The high cost and low availability of virtual reality simulators in surgical
specialty training programs in low-and middle-income countries make it necessary to …

Background The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a serious game skills
competition on voluntary usage of a laparoscopic simulator among first-year surgical …

Background Residents find it hard to commit to structural laparoscopic skills training. Serious
gaming has been proposed as a solution on the premise that it is effective and more …

This study assesses the issue of voluntary training of a standardized online competition
(serious gaming) between surgical residents. Surgical residents were invited to join a …

Background Video gaming demands elements of visual attention, hand–eye coordination
and depth perception which may be contiguous with laparoscopic skill development …

Background: Performing high-level surgeries with endoscopy is challenging, and hence, an
efficient surgical training method or system is required. Serious game–based simulators can …

Background Serious games have demonstrated efficacy in improving participation in
surgical training activities, but studies have not yet demonstrated the effect of serious …