Are gamers better laparoscopic surgeons? Impact of gaming skills on laparoscopic performance in “Generation Y” students

• Rabi Datta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rabi Datta, Seung-Hun Chon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, Cancer, and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Seung-Hun Chon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rabi Datta, Seung-Hun Chon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: seung-hun.chon@uk-koeln.de

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, Cancer, and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8923-6428

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• Thomas Dratsch,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Ferdinand Timmermann,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2210-9459

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• Luise Müller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Patrick Sven Plum,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, Cancer, and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Stefan Haneder,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Daniel Pinto dos Santos,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4785-6394

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• Martin Richard Späth,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Roger Wahba,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, Cancer, and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Christiane Josephine Bruns,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, Cancer, and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Robert Kleinert

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, Cancer, and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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