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MAY 1, 2019

Not Playing Around: Gaming Can Boost Endoscopy Skills

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Samir Grover, MD

—By David Wild

Fortnite,” not quite, but pitting endoscopy learners against one another may be a good way to train.

Novice endoscopists who underwent simulation-based training with a “gamified” element outperformed their peers who didn’t have the spur of competition during their first two live colonoscopies, the researchers reported.

Samir Grover, MD, an assistant professor of medicine and the director of the gastroenterology program at the