Endoscopic 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 endoscopic 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.
