Video Games are a Waste of Time
There is an abundant of those who feel video games are a complete waste of time. There are some benefits to those who do play video games such as hand eye coordination. One needs to move past some of stereotypes that those who play video games only play them and never get outside to play and exercise. Hand eye coordination is critical to many fields of today’s high tech world. Surgeons rely on excellent hand eye coordination to preform laparoscopic surgery.
Pros and Cons of Playing Video Games
When one thinks about a person playing video games it may stir up many directions of conversation. One may think that a child playing video games is wasting his or her time. Recent studies have shown that obesity is becoming …show more content…
In fact Sadandanan, Dryfhout, & Sosnowski, (2008), noted that the performance of laparoscopy requires certain basic skills, including ambidexterity, hand–eye coordination, and depth perception. Through the use of specific instruments, physicians can perform specific operative skills, such as dissection, cutting, suturing, and removal of various organs (p. 68). This highly trained skill set could be honed to some degree by playing certain fast paced video games and could be a fantastic argument for a child to present to his or her parents to justify the purchase of a video game console. It would be fairly incredible if a parent listened to his or her 10 year old argue that they needed to hone his or her hand eye coordination to become a surgeon and handed the parent an ad for an Xbox One gaming console. Sadandanan, Dryfhout, & Sosnowski, (2008), went on to state that surgical and OB/GYN interns should also be encouraged to play more video and computer games (p. 71). For all of those who grew up in the eighties, the thought of justifying video games to become a surgeon would be laughable. The technological advances in video games and computer simulations, consequently have opened a whole new world for training and preparations for …show more content…
The Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rome in Rome, Italy conducted a similar study utilizing the Nintendo Wii as a tool to show improvement of motor skills with its students. Though the evidence biased towards being a benefit to its students, consequently it is a long ways from becoming an actual class on the academic roster. In fact Giannotti et. al., (2013), concluded that it would be hard to suggest that academic institutions adopt a videogame console as a didactic tool for surgery in addition to traditional training and simulators, however the study proved its efficacy in improving the skills of surgeons in training both for laparoscopic basic skills and full virtual cholecystectomy procedures (p.6). Video games are becoming increasingly popular and advanced, hence the incredible money that is being applied to its development. It may seem that they are solely for entertainment and not regarded as aids in surgical training. As noted by Mayberry, (2008), because they surround us on a daily basis, we tend not to subject them to the same rigorous analysis and interrogation that we apply to a Supreme Court decision on affirmative action (p.
There is an abundant of those who feel video games are a complete waste of time. There are some benefits to those who do play video games such as hand eye coordination. One needs to move past some of stereotypes that those who play video games only play them and never get outside to play and exercise. Hand eye coordination is critical to many fields of today’s high tech world. Surgeons rely on excellent hand eye coordination to preform laparoscopic surgery.
Pros and Cons of Playing Video Games
When one thinks about a person playing video games it may stir up many directions of conversation. One may think that a child playing video games is wasting his or her time. Recent studies have shown that obesity is becoming …show more content…
In fact Sadandanan, Dryfhout, & Sosnowski, (2008), noted that the performance of laparoscopy requires certain basic skills, including ambidexterity, hand–eye coordination, and depth perception. Through the use of specific instruments, physicians can perform specific operative skills, such as dissection, cutting, suturing, and removal of various organs (p. 68). This highly trained skill set could be honed to some degree by playing certain fast paced video games and could be a fantastic argument for a child to present to his or her parents to justify the purchase of a video game console. It would be fairly incredible if a parent listened to his or her 10 year old argue that they needed to hone his or her hand eye coordination to become a surgeon and handed the parent an ad for an Xbox One gaming console. Sadandanan, Dryfhout, & Sosnowski, (2008), went on to state that surgical and OB/GYN interns should also be encouraged to play more video and computer games (p. 71). For all of those who grew up in the eighties, the thought of justifying video games to become a surgeon would be laughable. The technological advances in video games and computer simulations, consequently have opened a whole new world for training and preparations for …show more content…
The Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rome in Rome, Italy conducted a similar study utilizing the Nintendo Wii as a tool to show improvement of motor skills with its students. Though the evidence biased towards being a benefit to its students, consequently it is a long ways from becoming an actual class on the academic roster. In fact Giannotti et. al., (2013), concluded that it would be hard to suggest that academic institutions adopt a videogame console as a didactic tool for surgery in addition to traditional training and simulators, however the study proved its efficacy in improving the skills of surgeons in training both for laparoscopic basic skills and full virtual cholecystectomy procedures (p.6). Video games are becoming increasingly popular and advanced, hence the incredible money that is being applied to its development. It may seem that they are solely for entertainment and not regarded as aids in surgical training. As noted by Mayberry, (2008), because they surround us on a daily basis, we tend not to subject them to the same rigorous analysis and interrogation that we apply to a Supreme Court decision on affirmative action (p.