Complex surgical training with a game controller
Let's Train combines a custom-made game controller with a challenging video game to train both students and experienced surgeons in their surgical skills.
Let's Train allows a hospital to reduce their dependency on human tissue and lower the training costs for complex medical devices.
Effective teacher
Let's Train teaches its player precision and confidence in using a surgical device.
Let's Train is in fact so effective at teaching surgical precision, that one of its own developers – with no prior surgical experience – was able to translate their Let's Train skills into a successful vein harvesting on a cadaver.
How does a video game train complex surgical skills?
The custom-built controller is an endoscope altered to provide input for a video game.
Moving the controller directly moves a camera in the virtual environment.
Digital challenges, such as following a moving target and cutting thin digital strands, teach the player new skills as they increase in difficulty.
Play motivates competitive minds to train more often. A video game makes it easy to do so at any given time.
Let's Train in action
No human tissue required
Reduced training costs
Surgeons train more often
Play motivates faster growth in skill
The steps to developing
a surgical training game
Bringing together the team
The workgroup consists of 6-8 participants of the most important stakeholders.
This means the project team, the end users and, potentially, externals such as ethicists and healthcare professionals.
Game Ready Workshop
Together with the team of stakeholders, we
- define our goals and design criteria
- come up with ideas
- draft the first prototype
in a day-long creative workshop.
Development & testing
A prototype becomes a MVP, shaped by choices made with the whole team.
Development is an iterative process: we build, test and apply our learnings to the next round.
Implementation
The finished product is implemented and ready for use.
We provide training to ensure long-term use and enjoyment of the product.
