Training Surgeons From The Video Game Generation
Posted June 27th, 2008 4:34 pm
Category: Uncategorized, Nationwide Children's Hospital
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) - The first generation of kids who grew up playing video games aren’t kids anymore. Today, they’re the backbone of the American workforce, and all that time playing games as kids, may be helping them now as adults. In fact, researchers hope to use computer animation to not only help train the next generation of surgeons, but to see how good they can really be.
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