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Games being used in medicine

Bill MacKenty

Posted: 23 June 2009 08:49 AM

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Neat article about doctors using computer games to practice for surgery.

I’ve attached a pdf in case of link rot.

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Alan Schwartz

Posted: 23 June 2009 11:31 AM

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Surgical simulators are already in use. At UIC, we’re about to test the impact of training neurosurgeons to perform virtual ventriculostomy using a new simulator that provides both visual and haptic feedback, and we have a VR shop in the computer science department that’s done a lot of work on virtual surgery.

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