The SimuSurg Serious Game was created with surgeons, for surgeons.
Developed by cmee4 Productions in collaboration with the
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS),
it simulates a minimally invasive surgical setting and provides an engaging,
fun and interactive way to learn about the fundamentals of surgical skills in a
gaming environment. Prospective surgeons are the target audience.
SimuSurg was the
Indie Category winner at the Serious
Games Showcase & Challenge Australasia (SGSCA) 2018, held by Simulation Australasia.
The Serious Game was
showcased at SimGHOSTS 2018, a health simulation conference held on the Sunshine
Coast in June, and allows users to challenge themselves from simple control
movement exercises to more complex tasks associated with using various
instruments.
Winners were presented
with trophies and received instant entry to attend and represent Australia at
the global Serious Games Showcase & Challenge to be held as part of I/ITSEC in
Orlando, Florida, November 26th-30th 2018.
SimuSurg guides players through four levels of clinical scenarios designed to
deliver progressively challenging tasks in a virtual surgical environment.
Players practice instrument familiarization, degrees of movement, movement scaling
and cutting and grasping.
SimuSurg is available
for free at the App Store
and Google
Play.
SimuSurg
screenshot by cmee4 Productions
SimuSurg screenshot by cmee4 Productions
About the Royal Australasian College of
Surgeons (RACS)
RACS is the leading advocate for surgical standards, professionalism and
surgical education in Australia and New Zealand. The College is a
not-for-profit organization that represents more than 7000 surgeons and 1300
surgical trainees and International Medical Graduates. RACS also supports
healthcare and surgical education in the Asia-Pacific region and is a
substantial funder of surgical research. There are nine surgical specialties in
Australasia being: Cardiothoracic surgery, General surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic
surgery, Otolaryngology Head-and-Neck surgery, Pediatric surgery, Plastic and
Reconstructive surgery, Urology and
Vascular surgery.
About cmee4 Productions
cmee4 Productions harness game play to help solve
real health issues. Their flagship project Sound Scouts provides an accessible
means of detecting hearing loss in school-aged children. Sounds Scouts looks
and feels like a game, while incorporating advanced scientific principles that
enable it to detect a range of hearing problems.
Their health
connections extend to the production of complex training aids for organizations
such as the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Australasian College
of Sports Physicians.